ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a higher level of bilateral-friendly co-operation between his country and Antigua & Barbuda. He made the appeal over the weekend, while meeting with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer. A report on Chinese news site Xinhuane...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Should there have been need of further evidence that the Caribbean is important to China's global political and economic strategy, we need look no further than Trinidad & Tobago this weekend. Xi Jinping, China's new president, in one of only a handful of trips abroad ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – China Sunday announced a three billion US dollar concessionary facility for eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as President Xi Jingping ended a three-day state visit to Trinidad and Tobago. The Chinese leader met with leaders of the CARICOM countries ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - That Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar chose to characterise CARICOM’s talks with US Vice-President Joe Biden as “brutal” is probably indicative of more than a measure of resistance on the part of the US vice-president of the many demands made for Amer...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica plans to set up a central authority led by the central bank to report on the financial activities of US taxpayers to their government, which has been on a three-year campaign to track down tax cheats. Its the latest move by the Jamaican Government to assist local institu...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Third Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Annual Retreat of Caribbean Civil Society Consultative Groups (ConSoC) is ending here on Friday with Barbados urging the Washington-based financial institution to create new, interesting, innovative and adaptable strategies ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The European Union has provided more than Euro 23 million (One Euro =US$1.29 cents) in funding projects in the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) since March last year. Newly appointed European Union (EU) ambassador to the OECS, Mikael Barfod, say...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean fisheries ministers are meeting in Barbados on Friday to discuss the work of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM). “This is a very important meeting in terms of forging a new strategic direction for the fisheries sector,” said CRFM Exec...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has announced a series of fiscal measures it hopes will turn around an economy that recorded slight growth last year but below the nearly three per cent figure that had been projected. Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Perry Christie, presenting th...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) Thursday reiterated its call for a foreign investigator to help determine the authenticity of a series of electronic mail that Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley read out in Parliament last week as it questioned the ...