BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Tomorrow, as faithful Christians worship and observe the significance of Good Friday while preparing to celebrate the Resurrection, the people of Barbados in general will be particularly cognisant of a prevailing social and economic mood that reflects varying worrying concerns...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The development of this country as an international financial centre carried through during the first Tom Adams administration in the 1970s and was part of a major restructuring of a critical area of the Barbados economy. That sector was important then and it is important now!...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A FORMER head of the country's utilities regulation body has warned that Jamaica's energy problem now requires the same urgency as the lottery scam and has proposed a draft of measures he says can help to address the issue. With stakeholders divided between the use of co...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- Premier Craig Cannonier has fired back at an opposition party attack on its first 100 days in office, accusing it of "schoolyard fighting tactics". "As the Premier, I find it amazing that the Progressive Labour Party is still resorting to schoolyard fighting tactics to pro...

The first U.S. brand — and Haiti’s second luxury hotel to open in three months — will welcome its first guests Thursday. Designed for the business traveler, the Best Western Premier, a 106-room seven-story hotel in tony Petionville is finally making its debut. A soft-opening is pl...

NEW YORK, CMC - A high-ranking New York Police Department (NYPD) officer has acknowledged setting monthly quotas for summonses, arrests and stop and frisks of Caribbean and other minority youths while heading a Brooklyn, New York police precinct. “I set a standard that said do your job or suf...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - UNITED STATES President Barack Obama scored a diplomatic coup last week on his whirlwind trip to the Middle East. At first there was much speculation that the tour would merely be a widow-dressing exercise, especially among the Palestinians. However, there is now some scope f...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda parliament will “soon” debate a motion to decide whether or not to legalise the use of marijuana in this British Overseas Territory. “We will bring to the House of Assembly a ‘take note’ motion so we can have a public debate o...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said today. Mandela, 94, has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been hospitalized sev...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Leaders of five of the world's emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their US$4.5-trillion infrastructure plans - a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias. But the rulers of Brazil, Russia, India, Chi...