PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Just six years after it was created to replace its debt-ridden predecessor, BWIA, state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is facing severe financial turbulence. There are reports of a $500 million debt that the airline is seeking to address with long-term financing from local ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An American Airlines plane left here four and a half hours late on Thursday after security officials here said they had been alerted to a “strange” package placed on board the airline. A statement from the Airport Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AAT...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - After two days of extensive dialogue and negotiations, T&T and Guatemala have concluded their final round of negotiations with the signing of an Aide-Memoire on Wednesday at the Ministry of Trade in Port-of-Spain. The Aide-Memoire summarised the items discussed, amended...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Enhancing security within the region is one of the major issues that came under discussion recently when Mark Simmonds, Minister for Africa, the Overseas Territories, the Caribbean and International Energy, met with Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart and other Minister of Governm...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE FIERCE battle to elect a successor to the late President Hugo Chavez is over but a heavy cloud of uncertainty hangs over Venezuela amid today’s official ceremony for Nicolas Maduro to take the oath as new head of state of that influential oil-rich nation. With seven ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The difficulties confronting regional economies continue to stare us in the face on a daily basis. We hear of problems with the fiscal deficit in most islands, along with the pain and stress of civil servants clamouring for wage increases to cushion them against increases in t...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE Government has once again tabled Bills in the House of Representatives as it pushes to keep its promise to replace the United Kingdom-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as Jamaica's final appellate court. Leader of Government Business in the Ho...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - St. John’s Antigua- Last week, news broke that masked gunmen had robbed a group of cruise ship tourist in St Lucia. Apparently, a bus tour of the Soufriere Botanical Gardens turned into a nightmare scenario when their bus was hijacked by three masked men who proceed...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - MR Peter Bunting, the national security minister, might have used his "dark night of the soul" description out of the true context meant by 16th-century Spanish poet and Roman Catholic mystic, Saint John of the Cross, whose poem of the same title speaks of the painful experience ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - EVEN AS Jamaica struggles with a growing food import bill projected to go past US$1 billion for 2012, representatives from Caribbean neighbours The Bahamas are in the island looking to copy our good agricultural practices, looking at ways to improve their food security. Member of...