PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Less than 24 hours after the Washington-base International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Caribbean countries would experience economic growth of just over one per cent this year, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) is maintaining that the oil rich twin isla...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington is due to meet with his Guatemalan counterpart, Fernando Carreras, in the United States on Wednesday, less than a week after Belize confirmed that there will be no referendum in the two countries on October 6 in a bid...

Geneva, Switzerland - BRAZIL'S Roberto Azevedo will take the helm of the World Trade Organization, diplomats said yesterday, confirming the Latin American giant's new status as a global power. Azevedo, currently Brazil's ambassador to the 159-nation WTO, narrowly pipped the former Mexica...

MIAMI — Five months after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised to "use every opportunity" to push for funding to eliminate cholera from Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic, government officials in both nations are still waiting on donors to open their wallets. The feet-draggin...

PORTT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Former president Jean Bertrand Aristide is due to appear in court later on Wednesday to answer questions from an investigative judge into the unresolved case of a murdered radio journalist. Journalist Jean Dominique, once a close friend to Aristide, was gunned do...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, May 7, CMC – The first ever female Governor General of Grenada was sworn into office on Tuesday with Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell saying that her inauguration serves as a “beacon of hope that can inspire a whole nation”. Former head of the Public ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada said Tuesday it is prepared to take its concerns to a “higher body” if Trinidad and Tobago does not live up to its commitment to resolve the restriction imposed on the import of honey from t6he neighbouring Caribbean Community (CARICOM) co...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA is among 30 trading partners of the United States of America placed on a 2013 Intellectual Property Watch List, described as "meriting bilateral attention to address underlying Intellectual Property Rights problems". It joins Barbados, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A high-level team from Trinidad and Tobago is to arrive in the island in a few weeks to hammer out an arrangement with the Jamaican Government over recent actions relating to Caribbean Airlines (CAL), including the carrier's plan to drastically reduce flights to Jamaica. "I ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Organisation of American States (OAS) regional experts meeting on the project “Expanding the Socio-Economic Potential of Cultural Heritage in the Caribbean”, got under way at Amaryllis Hotel yesterday. OAS Representative to Barbados, Francis McBarnette, pointe...