KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Jamaica has been selected by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to host the official ceremony for World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) for the Region of the Americas, on June 14. PAHO Director Dr. Carissa F. Etienne is expected to be the keynote speaker at the official Wor...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - England's expression yesterday of sincere regret and offer of compensation for the acts of torture that a British colonial government carried out against Kenyans fighting for liberation from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s, will, we expect, revive the reparations debate ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Even as Chinese President Xi Jinpeng was making his way around the region to promote more trade and cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, visiting Trinidad and Tobago (where he also held bilateral talks with those Caricom countries with which Beijing enj...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caribbean Premier League, which bowls off in Barbados on July 30, could bring many benefits to the sport and the region. For West Indies cricket, which has spent the better part of the last decade in the doldrums, there are great prospects for re-energising players and ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - RENEWABLE ENERGY will be the centrepiece of Government’s economic programme outlined by Governor General Sir Elliott Belgrave in the Throne Speech yesterday. In the speech, a feature of the opening of a new parliamentary term, the Government committed itself to not only...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada says it is willing to be a partner in the development and success of the regional airline, LIAT, only if the cash-strapped airline shows itself to be serious and cost effective. Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell said has made recommendations on improv...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is travelling to Venezuela Friday to attend a meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) Bank. “I have to be on a plane around 12 o’clock,” he told Parliament Thursday night. “There is a mi...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has imposed a ban on the importation and sale of meat products as well as poultry, eggs and live animals from the Dominican Republic following reports of a resurgence of the Avian Flu (HINI virus) in that country. A statement from the Ministry of Public Healt...

NEW YORK, CMC – Senior Caribbean tourism officials are hoping for a turnaround in fortunes as the region Wednesday continued efforts to lure visitors to its shores. “We are truly convinced that high tide floats all boats and together by marketing the region ... collectively is extremely ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - We often say that tourism is our business and that is true since it is a major foreign exchange earner for our vulnerable open economy which needs foreign exchange to ensure its stability. Recent developments have, however, caused us some concern and the latest statistics do n...