KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA has signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with Kuwait that will encourage and guide future investments into the Caribbean country. The agreement, signed by Anthony Hylton, Jamaican Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, and Kuwaiti Minister of Finance Mustaf...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will hear final submissions in the Shanique Myrie case when the court sits at its headquarters in Port of Spain on Monday and Tuesday. The Trinidad-based CCJ will hear testimony in the case brought by Myrie, 25, who alleged that when ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC- Former rebel leader, Ronnie Brunswijk has announced that he will be making a bid for the presidency in the 2015 election. Brunswijk made the announcement following Saturday night’s performance by American rapper Rick Ross. The show was organized by Brunswijk’s...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country's devastating earthquake finds much of the money went to U.S.-based companies and organizations. The Center for Economic and Policy Research analyzed the $1.15 billion pledged after the January 2010 quake ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Unbroken education for Haitian children is one of the success stories that has emerged in the aftermath of the earthquake which rocked Port-au-Prince on January 10, 2010. The children were displaced, and to some extent they still are not studying and learning in comfortable...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE recent announcement by European Union officials of an investment package for the Caribbean is good news all around. Not only is the proposal a welcome piece of information by recipient countries, which are witnessing a slowdown in capital inflows, but the announcement of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - IT'S now more than six weeks since it became public knowledge for the governments and people of our Caribbean Community that the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, had conveyed the very shocking decision to the president of Haiti, Michel Martelly, of the wo...

KINGSTON, Jamaica- IN 1978 Mr Lee Iacocca joined Chrysler as president and chief operating officer for the princely salary of US$1 a year. At the time, Mr Iacocca was by no means a poor man, having done well for himself at Ford Motor Company from which he was fired by Mr Henry Ford II. But Mr Iacoc...

In the Dominican Republic, discounts on Venezuelan oil imports keep the lights on. In Jamaica, they are helping a limping economy stay afloat, and in Haiti, a young and inexperienced leadership is using them to achieve quick results. But despite financial benefits of the late Venezuelan President H...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 5, CMC – Trinidadian author and educator, Dr Kris Rampersad is one of six international experts who will serve on the consultative body of the international Intern Governmental Committee on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of the United Nations Education, ...