BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC - Junior Finance and Economic Development Minister Santiago Castillo Junior, has been hospitalised after he was seriously injured in a cycling incident. Castillo, affectionately known at Santino, is an avid cyclist who owns and manages his own cycling team and actively particip...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The former speaker of the Grenada parliament George McGuire says opposition legislators in St. Kitts-Nevis “played right into the hands of the Prime Minister” when they filed court action to force the Parliament to debate a motion of no confidence. McG...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has hinted that the long awaited Local Government elections may not take place this year and is blaming the opposition grouping, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) for deliberately delaying the process. The state-owned Chronicle newspaper Tu...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has described as “very fruitful” the discussions he had last Sunday with the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, in Port-of- Spain. President Xi was on an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago over the week...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Trinidad and Tobago to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) sees no reason for concern over the recent visits by leaders of the two most powerful countries of the world to this region. Concerns have been raised in some quarters o...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Thirty-six delegates representing 14 countries throughout the Caribbean are gathered at Jolly Beach for a five-day seminar hosted by Antigua & Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) and organised by the International Maritime Organisa...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Dr Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines, one of the three LIAT shareholder governments, said the airline’s employees are essential workers, echoing controversial sentiments made by LIAT’s chairman last month. “(Work) in...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The 57th Meeting of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Authority concluded yesterday with sub-regional heads of governments promising to put economic growth and development high on the agenda going forward. Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, recentl...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have until November to meet the stipulations outlined by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). The CFATF met in Nicaragua last week and according to Dominica’s Attorney General Levi Peters the island has...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -TODAY I wish to reflect on two aspects of our post-independence political culture that need to be systematically purged across our Caribbean Community in favour of cultivating attitudes and improving decision-making for more civilised, healthy, productive norms in nation-bui...