KINGSTON, Jamaica - Much media coverage was given to the signing on May 28 in Trinidad of a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) by US Vice-President Joseph Biden and current chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community, Haiti's President Michel Martelly. But the TIFA must not be mis...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - RECENTLY, United States President Barack Obama visited Mexico and Costa Rica. His last visit to the Caribbean was in April 2009 when he attended the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Hilary Clinton, while she was secretary of state, met the leaders of the Caribbean in Montego B...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – US Vice President Joe Biden assured that the 10-year old online gaming dispute between Antigua & Barbuda and the United States is on the desk of President Barack Obama. That report came from Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer who met with Biden at a Caricom meeting in Trinidad this ...

CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC - The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is urging regional countries to review and strengthen their institutions and instruments in order to maximize the contribution of natural resources to regional development, particularly in th...

PARIS—The recession in Europe risks threatening the world’s economic recovery, a leading international body warned yesterday. In its half-yearly update, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said that protracted economic weakness in Europe “could evolve i...

QUITO, Ecuador, CMC - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Caribbean countries to build on the successes of decolonization, saying they must also show statements of principle can be transferred into action. “Let us build on the many successes of decolonization,” said Ban in his me...

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Cuba has bestowed the Jose Marti medal of honour on St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony, who is on an official visit to the Caribbean Communist country. The award is the highest honour bestowed upon a foreign dignitary by the Cuba government. On Tuesday, Anthony laid a ...

CARACAS—According to a new ECLAC document launched yesterday, Latin American countries must review and strengthen institutions and instruments to maximize the contribution of natural resources to regional development, particularly in the current cycle of high prices. The report Natural resources wi...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden left Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday after what he and leaders of the mostly English-speaking 15-member Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic called “frank” discussions on issues of mutual interests. “It was completely open, completely frank and completely stra...

WASHINGTON, CMC - The United States says several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, including Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas, are engaged in discriminatory practices against Rastafarians, voodoo practitioners and Muslims. In its International Religious Freedom Report for ...