PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday held a three-hour, closed-door audience with a Haitian investigative judge, as part of the ongoing murder investigation into the unsolved assassination of agronomist-turned-journalist Jean Léopold Dominique. A...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica has launched a scathing attack on countries and companies seeking to destroy the local banana industry as the European Union launched an EC$54 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) banana support package to help the island adjust to the new trading arrangements for...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - IN the context of what he says is increasing unemployment and poverty in Barbados; high incidences of non-communicable diseases; the current contracting of the economy; and a decrease in tourism arrivals and spend, the all-encompassing aspects of agriculture must play a greate...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Agro-parks must be good things. Roger Clarke, the agriculture minister, talks about them a lot. So, too, does Peter Phillips, the finance minister. Indeed, in these hard economic times, in which he is facing the strictures of the International Monetary Fund, Dr Phillips is allowi...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - When Dr Peter Phillips announced the approval of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal as he wrapped up the annual Budget Debate last week, many in the House and across the nation were happy - the ecstasy had waned by then. Dr Phillips, who earned respect by the way he handl...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Jamaican Government and the United States (US) are expected to sign an agreement by July aimed at endorsing a new hegemony tax act called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which requires local financial institutions to rat out US account holders. Concurrently, a...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony has challenged Cabinet secretaries and heads of the Public Services in the Commonwealth Caribbean to set examples in their professional lives so others in the service may be inspired and motivated. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the "C...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell is returning home Friday after holding talks with his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Kamla Persad Bissessar on further improving trading and other relations between the two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. A joint s...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prepare for an active hurricane season. Director of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) Judy Thomas sounded this warning yesterday saying that residents should prepare homes and businesses against flooding and strong winds....

KINGSTOWN—The shareholder governments of regional airline, LIAT, will meet in Barbados today, but a planned meeting in Bridgetown with T&T’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar will not materialise, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has said. He told a news conference his T&T counterpart was unabl...