PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Despite the economic difficulties in the Eurozone area, the European Union (EU) will continue to fund projects in the Caribbean, Christian Leffler, Director of Latin America Section in the European External Action Service said yesterday. “We will continue to co-opera...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The newly formed National United Front (NUF) says it will contest three of the 15 seats in the February 19 general elections and dismissed suggestions that it should be regarded as a breakaway faction of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). The par...

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Voters have started casting their ballots for a new Tobago House of Assembly (THA) following a four week intensive campaign that included Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and senior members of her coalition People’s Partnership government. The senior Cabi...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - After a bruising campaign conducted under a canopy of allegations, counter-allegations and legal threats, Tobagonians go to the polls this morning to elect the leaders of the Tobago House of Assembly for the next term. As brutal as this THA election campaign has been, the ...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Chairman of the ruling Progressive Liberal party (PLP) Bradley Roberts is denying suggestions of a rift within the administration regarding the January 28 referendum on the regulation and taxation of web shop gaming and the establishment of a national lottery. “It ...

BRIDGETOWN—Caribbean Community (Caricom) rum producing countries are holding high-level talks with the United States on resolving issues surrounding the rum industry in the region, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announced. A government statement said that Prime Minister Stuart made the announc...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says some CARICOM nations have been operating less than neighbourly by putting up non-tariff barriers to Guyanese products. At a conference for stakeholders in the coconut industry last week he told those gathered that it was an iss...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier Craig Cannonier has announced a 50 per cent reduction in the fleet of official cars used by cabinet ministers as his new One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) administration moves to reduce expenditure. Premier Cannonier said while the OBA is still analysing the country's ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ONE of the things that we would like to wish for Barbados in 2013 is that the energy policy that is being put in place should start to bring substantial benefits for the island and its people. Energy is one of those commodities that stand to build or break a country depending...

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC-Attorney’s representing Speaker of the House of Assembly, Peter Foster, have demanded an apology from Opposition Leader Stephenson King over remarks in which he accused Foster of conflict of interest surrounding the inquiry into the St. Lucia Fire Service. In a stateme...