PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - There is an obvious irony in the hemispheric choice of Trinidad and Tobago as the venue for the eighth Americas Competitiveness Forum in October 2014. The most recent World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report moved T&T from 86 out of 133 countries in 2010, to 81 ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony has challenged Cabinet secretaries and heads of the Public Services in the Commonwealth Caribbean to set examples in their professional lives so others in the service may be inspired and motivated. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the "C...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell is returning home Friday after holding talks with his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Kamla Persad Bissessar on further improving trading and other relations between the two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. A joint s...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prepare for an active hurricane season. Director of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) Judy Thomas sounded this warning yesterday saying that residents should prepare homes and businesses against flooding and strong winds....

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica has launched a scathing attack on countries and companies seeking to destroy the local banana industry as the European Union launched an EC$54 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) banana support package to help the island adjust to the new trading arrangements for...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday held a three-hour, closed-door audience with a Haitian investigative judge, as part of the ongoing murder investigation into the unsolved assassination of agronomist-turned-journalist Jean Léopold Dominique. A...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti is welcoming plans by the US-based carrier, JetBlue Airways to begin offering daily non-stop flights to the impoverished French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. Haiti's consul general in New York in a statement noted that JetBlue's service will help ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Accompanied by their spouses, political figures, a present and former state enterprise chairman, two directors and a television personality are among the passengers who were upgraded from economy to first class on directives from vice-chairman of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A Miami-Dade police department bomb squad was called out to check a suspicious package yesterday afternoon outside the gate of a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight at Miami International Airport. Miami Airport and US aviation authorities grounded and searched CAL flight 483 af...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - One of the inescapable incidents of man’s inhumanity to man is the need for reflection on events which some of us would rather forget. Slavery, in our case, and the Holocaust, in the case of the Jews, are two examples of such atrocities, but modern-day ethnic cleansing and the...