BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SOME INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS are occurring in the Middle East that could see a thawing of relations with Iran and Syria and ultimately a realignment of United States strategic interests in that region. However, Israel seems perplexed by this change as its arch-rivals are men...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Former Prime Minister of Jamaica P. J. Patterson is urging CARICOM members to fully support the initiatives afforded by the agreement. Speaking during his delivery of 18th edition of the Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture on Tuesday night at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Im...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- No one today can imagine Barbados without the UWI. This was the view expressed recently by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus. Professor Beckles recently argued that “modern Barbados is as much the...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A top official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says tourism in the Caribbean and Barbados could be hit hard if the shutdown of the United States government, now in its second week, drags on. Thomas Helbling, advisor to the IMF’s research department, told the MI...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - “…[T] he full extent of the right is that both entry and stay of a Community national must not only be “definite”, but also “hassle free” or without harassment or the imposition of impediments. These are essential elements of that right&hel...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB), Dr. DeLisle Worrell says he is confident of an economic turnaround acknowledging that policy makers have ever since the onset of the global recession in 2008, have kept a stable economic platform from which to launch t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Barbados is ranked No. 1 in the Caribbean when it comes to information and communication technology (ICT) development for 2012 to 2013. The country is ranked 29th out of 157 globally, and No. 3 in the Americas. Presenting the findings today at United Nation House, Cleveland T...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is of significance and relevance to note that even before last Friday’s historic decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case involving Barbados and the Jamaican Shanique Myrie was publicly made known, the foreign affairs ministers of this country and ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The recent landmark judgment handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of Shanique Myrie versus The State of Barbados, which saw the Court ruling in Myrie’s favour, will have long-term significance in terms of how Caribbean people should be treated,...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) decision in the high profile Shanique Myrie case has implications for the broader freedom of movement regime, says principal of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Sir Hilary Beckles. And according to the regional a...