KINGSTON, Jamaica - Caribbean livestock producers may soon experience some positive gains following the recent Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO)'s workshop for chief livestock officers in the Caribbean, which concluded in Kingston last week. The workshop which pulled ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Dr. Gene Leon, the senior representative from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Jamaica, has commended the Portia Simpson Miller led administration for displaying the vision to formulate a programme, aimed at resuscitating the country’s economy. He said the pro...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is calling for “good sense” to prevail when President Donald Ramotar meets with opposition legislators on Monday to prevent a repeat of last year as the opposition again threatens to use its slender one-seat majority to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – National Security Minister Peter Bunting is admitting that the fight against crime seems to be a futile endeavour in Jamaica. “I am not embarrassed to say that right now as Minister of National Security, I am going through a kind of a dark night of the soul. &l...

(Miami Herald) - The musical chairs in Haiti's government continued Friday as the prime minister's office announced after midnight replacements for two cabinet posts left vacant by resignations within days of one another. Trade and Commerce Minister Wilson Laleau will now head the ministry ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - While the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, has recorded significant increases in enrolment, the graduation rate for research degrees continues to be disappointing. Making the comment yesterday was Errol Simms, dean of the Faculty of Social S...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - GRAND Turk, the capital of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), is the latest city to invite Gordon 'Butch' Stewart to establish his Sandals/Beaches resorts there in hopes of stimulating tourism growth. The call was made by the president of the Providenciales Cha...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - Hugo Chávez may be dead but chavismo is very much alive in the highly charged Venezuelan election campaign, due to come to a head on Sunday. As has been widely reported, the interim president and Mr Chávez’s anointed successor, Nicolás M...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - JAMAICANS continued paying tribute yesterday to cultural icon Dr Olive Lewin who died in the University Hospital of the West Indies Wednesday night. Lewin, founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers, was ailing for some years. She was 85. Yesterday, Prime Minister Portia S...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Despite the loss in value of the Jamaican currency relative to the United States dollar, two academics and a businessman have suggested that it provides opportunities to spur economic growth. "If the Jamaican currency is becoming cheaper, then it presents a great oppor...