26 CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- Nearly eight months after its official launch the OECS Authority has scheduled a sitting of the OECS Assembly for March 26. The Castries based OECS Secretariat has announced t hat in preparation for this sitting a seminar has been planned to facilitate discussion of the...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) is charting the way forward in establishing and maintaining a well co-ordinated system of Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSAs) in the Caribbean. The objective of the TSAs is to help strengthen the capacities of the governments to assess t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Throughout the ages, man has held water as the most precious natural resource on earth; and rightfully so, since water is the source of all life on this planet and, coincidentally, it is only on earth that one can find this liquid. For such a simple chemical structure, water h...

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC - Three former ministers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NCD) will be appointed to the Senate to fill the three opposition seats in the Upper House of Parliament. According to media reports, former Finance Minister Nazim Burke, former Education Ministe...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sports Minister Anil Roberts says he will take legal action against several journalists and media houses as well as the chair person of his Congress of the People (COP) political party amid allegations that he was being investigated by the Director of Public Pros...

NEW YORK, CMC - The United States financial services watchdog agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it has charged a Bahamas-based broker-dealer among others in what it describes as “an international market manipulation scheme”. The SEC said charges have been laid ag...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says agents have taken 28 Caribbean and other immigrants back into custody after they were recently released from detention centers and jails around the country. ICE said the immigrants were re-taken “a...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The announcement of a changing of the guard in Havana – albeit not for another five years – has been somewhat overshadowed by all the fuss over the death of President Hugo Chávez and the election of Pope Francis. But the identification of a successor to Fidel ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony says the Windward Islands Banana Production and Marketing Company (WINFRESH) has a “moral” obligation to ensure the survival of the banana industry in the St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Addressi...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Francis Kennedy says it is highly unlikely that the country will seal a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before the end of next month. On Tuesday Finance Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips said he was still hopefu...