KINGSTON, Jamaica - During an enlightening presentation to internal auditors at a recent meeting of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Jamaica chapter) by Mr George Roper, Scotiabank's, vice-president for compliance, the cold, hard facts of FATCA were expounded. FATCA is the Foreign Account Ta...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opposition Leader Mia Mottley has described as “unprecedented,” the manner in which Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin was sent on leave pending his retirement in the public interest. Media reports said that the Police Service Commission (PSC) took the d...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - LESS THAN 24 hours  after the removal of Commissioner of Police (COP) Darwin Dottin,  the acting Deputy COP Seymour Cumberbatch is asking the High Court for an injunction  to halt any attempt  to fill the post  of Deputy Commissioner. In documents fil...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - NO EVENT in recent memory has plunged a tranquil, if anxious, Barbados into a greater state of shock and dismay than the action taken on Monday by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to retire Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin with a day’s notice. It is the type of humi...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE cost of health care will increase significantly if the incidence of non-communicable diseases continues to rise. That is the view of Member of Parliament and Minister of Health, John Boyce. Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday, he said his Ministry sees it as critic...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The United Nations system in Guyana Tuesday congratulated Guyana on being among 38 countries that have met internationally-established targets in the fight against hunger ahead of the 2015 deadline. Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the only two Caribbean...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said being a part of the union helped member-states weather the global economic crisis, and that the future of the union looks bright. “One shudders to contemplate w...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – A member of the St. Lucia delegation that attended the constitutional talks leading to the island’s political independence from Britain more than three decades ago, says he is “dead against” breaking ties with the London-based Privy Council. Attorne...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The tension that has made the Korean peninsula a global flashpoint for much of 2013 appears to have subsided  with the toning down  of North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric directed at the South and the US and Pyongyang’s call last week for “senior level&rdq...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - BUSINESSMAN AND publisher Ian Randle is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is to be conferred at the annual graduation exercise on the St Augustine campus of the university in Trinidad and Tobago in October of this year. A pioneer i...