ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - This week much of our region is grieving. Flags across the Caribbean and Latin America are being flown at half-mast. Several countries have declared three days of official mourning. In many more, heads are bowed in sorrow and silent reflection. In Antigua & Barbuda an...

St. John’s Antigua- The country is to observe three days of mourning for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died after a two-year battle with cancer on Tuesday. Flags across the nation will also be flown at half-mast in tribute to the flamboyant leftist leader, described by the Prime Ministe...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Wednesday joined his Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues in acknowledging that the death of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has left a void and many of his tasks unfinished. “Those of us who have been toiling ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity in the number of Caribbean nationals denied entry to Barbados in the last five years when compared to Ja...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Tuesday night declared a national state of mourning in honour of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died earlier following a long battle with cancer. In an emotional address to the nation, Prime Minster Roosevelt Skerrit, who described Chavez ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FOREIGN AFFAIRS and Foreign Trade Minister Senator A.J. Nicholson yesterday said that if the late Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party wins in another national election "we would dare to hope that the PetroCaribe and other projects would continue." In an interview on R...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez predicted, during a visit to Jamaica eight years ago, that the PetroCaribe arrangement would save participating countries billions of dollars from crude oil purchases. Following Chávez's passing yesterday, Dr Wesley Hughes,...

KINGSTON – Lawyers representing the Jamaica government yesterday served notice at the Shanique Myrie trial that they would present evidence to show that Barbados has engaged in a pattern of discrimination against visiting Jamaicans. The evidence, according to lead attorney Kathy-Ann Brown, in...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA'S Attorney General's Office yesterday indicated that it intends to call four witnesses to the stand as the Government began to present its case in the first sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Jamaica to hear the case against the Barbadian Governmen...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Antigua and Barbuda has made “significant progress” towards meeting the goals of its fiscal consolidation programme and reduce debt and that it expects the economic recovery to continue in 2013. An IMF miss...