Bridgetown, Barbados, January 09, 2014 (CDEMA) - In excess of EC$ 3,000,000.00 in donations have been mobilised by the Caribbean Community since a trough system impacted St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Dominica over the Christmas holidays. Severe rains and high winds during the peri...

(Trinidad Guardian)BRIDGETOWN—The Caribbean continues to have a huge trade imbalance with the US when imports and exports between the two trading partners are compared. The US amassed US$22,838,950,392 in sales to the region in 2012 alone. In contrast, the North American country imported US$1...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Caribbean Community (CARICOM) stakeholders in the field of energy, as well as International Development Partners that are active in the regional energy sector will gather in Barbados 11 July, 2013, to discuss initiat...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The unprecedented withdrawal of Barbados’ bond offer on the international financial market has serious implications for the financing of Government spending in the short term, the foreign reserves position in the medium term, and the country’s external debt servici...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The drugs-for-guns trade has reached Barbados and could be largely responsible for the increased presence and use of firearms here, say police sources. And intelligence gathered by the Regional Security Systems (RSS), the organization charged with the defence and security of ...

revitalized BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A revitalised cassava industry will generate benefits for human and animal nutrition, food security and the development of value added products. This is the assurance of Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management Dr. David Estwick as he...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Although she waged a battle against the Barbadian government and won, Jamaican Shanique Myrie vows never to return to Barbados. The 25 year old said she is too scarred by the March 14, 2011, experience when she attempted to enter the Caricom country upon invitation ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - There has been significant criticism of the Barbadian government and its agents (immigration officials), in light of the Shanique Myrie case. There is some justification for this response in light of similar experiences recounted to me during the five months I spent doing fieldwo...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A NUMBER of Barbadians continue to be furious about the recent ruling in the case involving Jamaican Shanique Myrie and the Barbados Government. Over the past week, several of them have vented their anger with the decision, even going so far as to beseech the authorities in th...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart last night voiced concern about the implications of the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) recent ruling, saying an automatic six-month stay for CARICOM nationals visiting Barbados would attract the unemployed and criminals. However, he to...