GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The visit to the Caribbean earlier this month by Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and the simultaneous announcement that the region would be the beneficiary of yet another huge tranche of financial aid from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) lends a predictable continuity...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A row may be brewing between Barbados and the Caribbean’s executive director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). And the quarrel revolves around the “management of the Caribbean constituency office”, which represents the interest of The Bahamas, Ba...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Political will is needed for all the countries in Cariforum and the European Community to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), British High Commissioner to T&T Arthur Snell said yesterday. He admitted that implementation of the agreement has “not been...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) yesterday told Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson to step aside or start singing a different tune on the trade dispute between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In a strongly worded reaction to Nicholson's ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECURRING challenges of a widening trade deficit for Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago featured again in the Jamaican senate last Friday but climaxed with an understanding to pursue a non-confrontational strategy for reversal of this lingering negative trend. For all their...

Turning market access into market presence What is Aid for Trade? Aid for Trade is a sub-set of official development assistance. In the broadest sense it refers to the flow of development finance/aid from developed countries and multilateral funding agencies to developing countries to enhance their...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua -  In recent weeks, sharply contrasting views on how the United States should respond to the madness in Syria have emerged from two of America’s most prominent voices. Republican Senator John McCain is convinced that US intervention is the only solution to the d...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -ACADEMICS in the region are today mourning the passing of Prof Emeritus Nazeer A Ahmad, who was one of the last associates of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (AICTA). Ahmad was Prof Emeritus of the Department of Food Production in the Faculty of Food and Agricu...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Chinese people have always had the dream of the Great Harmony of all and longed for a beautiful society with noble virtue, material plenty, equality and equity. Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted the idea of a Chinese dream, which would spur the rejuvenation of t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECENT notices of pending layoffs in the private sector will undoubtedly invite an aura of scepticism and concern among our working class population. The question on the lips of many of these workers will reside in the wonder “whose turn is next?” Although rev...