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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - When disaster hits in the Caribbean, Barbadians take pride in reaching out to help.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Strengthening training strategies will be the key to meeting the challenges in the labour market in the Caribbean region.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Venezuela, now in international headlines as a likely asylum home for US espionage fugitive Edward Snowden, is also worthy of heightened attention in bilateral relations

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SINCE 2005 when the late president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez introduced the PetroCaribe initiative, several Caribbean governments have enjoyed a vital lifeline.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Corruption: it’s the big story in the Caribbean. Only here?

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The following is an edited version of a speech delivered to the Lions Club of Kingston recently.

The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) hopes a new ballistic information system will help track down guns used by certain gangs and reduce the backlog of criminal cases across the region.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Young people in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will benefit from an after-school pro

Madam Prime Minister, it is a joy to be back in Port of Spain again.

We are grateful for the arrangements, and continued hospitality of your government and people. 

CARACAS, Venezuela — The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - On yet another occasion, the mental brittleness of West Indian cricketers, the batsmen in particular, has been demonstrated as the major weakness in the team performing

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - A recent run-in with a member of the Stanford Victims Coalition was an eye-opener for us.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling for a meeting between the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) and television broadcasters to

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – A senior government minister has written a public essay expressing grave concerns about what she perceives could be the promotion of hate crimes against gay men and women

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Haiti's president is expected to attend the NAACP's national convention in Florida.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has banned the construction, fishing and hunting in mangrove forests in a move seen as protecting the country’s endangered mangrove forests.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier Craig Cannonier and other politicians have flown to the Bahamas to celebrate the country’s 40th anniversary of independence from Britain.

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to counter-piracy between The Bahamas and the United States will play a critical role in ma