KINGSTON, Jamaica - OUR commendation goes to fellow columnist Sir Ronald Sanders for his insightful and descriptive piece on the Cariforum states and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU (Sunday Observer 7th April ). This agreement has been somewhat of a non-starter since its provis...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Aviation officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and South America will meet here in May to discuss initiatives aimed at developing air links between the regions, Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran has said. Addressing the open...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Britain will this week bury Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister who transformed her country, for better or worse. Opinion polarises about the woman the Soviet press famously dubbed the 'Iron Lady'. On the Right, she is celebrated as the woman who took down the unions, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Dr Herminio Blanco has been chosen to contend in the next round of the selection process for Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The selection committee, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and headed by the president of the WTO's General Council, presented the ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua - A regional cricket historian has cautioned concerned groups in Antigua & Barbuda to revamp the cricket museum or risk having important artifacts wither away. Stephen Almandos of Trinidad & Tobago is referring to the former property of convicted fraudster Allen Stan...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – China has agreed to provide nearly four million EC dollars (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) to finance the final phase of a 350 housing programme across the island. An agreement has been signed between Housing Minister Delma Thomas and the Charge d’Affai...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Court of Appeal yesterday granted a stay stopping the decision of a High Court judgment which ordered that almost 250 Clico policyholders be repaid their full investments in the failed insurance giant. The stay was granted by Appeal Court judge Alice Yorke Soo Hon durin...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) says it is providing US$100,000 to Jamaica to support the island’s post-disaster recovery and restoration initiatives following the effects of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. In a statement, the CCRIF, which is...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government will present the estimates of revenue and expenditure to Parliament next week. A government statement said that the presentation will follow the ceremonial opening of Parliament on April 24 when Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy will del...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is to outline a solution that it hopes will facilitate the re-opening of the Russian owned ALPART and Kirkvine bauxite plants here. Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell will outline the solution when he make his contri...