Qatar has finalised the details of a development called ‘Qatar City’ being funded near Port-au-Prince as part of an aid pledge made by the Gulf state in the wake of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The project is a being jointly funded with $5m from Qatar and $4m from the US A...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FROM the Government of China's point of view, the visit of President Xi Jinping to Trinidad to meet nine Caribbean Heads of Government was a great success. Each of the nine leaders made statements after individual short meetings with President Xi, praising China for the loan...

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - Sections of the northeastern Caribbean were rocked by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday evening. The United States Geological Survey confirmed that the tremor was felt as far north as St Maarten, as far south as Guadeloupe and across St Eustatius and St Kitts an...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook Antigua around 1:11 am yesterday and frightening many residents, including one from Buckleys who said, “it felt as if the house was being ripped from its foundation. It was very scary.” Also speaking about the tremor on ea...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC -Officials in the Dominican Republic have denied reports of an outbreak of avian flu adding that the World Health Organisation declared the country free of bird flu three years ago. In a statement on Friday, the Dominican Ambassador to Haiti, Ruben Silie said H...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is to travel to Rome to accept an award from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in recognition of St. Vincent and the Grenadines significantly reducing the number of people suffering from undernourishment...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE GOVERNMENT is considering several measures, among them the imposition of a levy on fast foods, to fund health care on the island. Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson, who will today head to the Carter Hall, Holy Cross Church, in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, for the second in a se...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has established a working group on the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the first positive steps taken towards compliance. A press release from the central bank stated that the Eastern Caribbean Curr...

BELLE ANSE, Haiti - The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. The hair on broomstick-thin children has turned patchy and orangish, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - It is generally accepted that for small developing countries, like Jamaica, who are in severe economic difficulties, there are few, if any, alternatives to the policy stipulations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Even traditional political allies such as America, Britai...