BRUSSELS, CMC – The Chairman of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Sugar Subcommittee, Dr. P.I. Gomes, has welcomed a vote in the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development which supports the extension of the current quota provisions until 30 September 2020. The AC...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Former Jamaica Prime Minister Percival Patterson Monday night urged an overhaul of CARICOM’s Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and he expressed grave concern about the real value of the CARICOM Passport. While he said CARICOM has made progress in a number of areas, the former ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — European and Latin American leaders wrapped up a two-day summit here yesterday, pledging to reinvigorate their "strategic partnership" for expanded free trade while shunning protectionism. But the high-profile meeting attended by some 60 countries from both continents ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SIX-and-a-half years ago a historic accord was signed between Venezuela and various member states of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) for the inauguration of an energy-based co-operation venture known as PetroCaribe. It was to unfold across this region and beyond as manifestati...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - exual violence against women is being seen as widespread in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Alessandra Guedes, Regional Advisor on Intra-Family Violence at PAHO has indicated that a recent report titled “Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbea...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Haiti's prime minister says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so it can get on its feet after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Saturday he...

SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) says its Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, met with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Belize and Guatemala on the protracted territorial dispute between both countries. “The meeting's main objective was...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-St.Lucia's Opposition Leader Stephenson King has taken a tough stance in ongoing controversy with House Speaker Peter Foster by insisting that no leader of the opposition should ever have to apologise for doing his duty. King made his position clear in a letter to Foster...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - There is a general cry that “things are bad in Antigua.” Some are doing well, some are not doing too well and some are “catching hell.” Perhaps we can try to emulate Dickens and say “It was the best of times and the worst of times,” but...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Global growth has slowed in the past two years and is forecast to remain sluggish in 2013. Some of the biggest risks facing the world economy—the breakup of the euro currency, huge tax increases and government spending cuts in the United States, and a sharp slowdown i...