PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE CARIBBEAN Court of Justice's (CCJ) trip to Barbados will be highlighted by a landmark evidentiary ruling today. The CCJ's decision, expected this morning, is one that could set a precedent on statements of evidence, what documents are fit for evidence and how t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cameras installed at the Grantley Adams International Airport have been functioning since they were put in place as part of the security arrangements for the 2007 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was told on Monday....

KINGSTON, Jamaica - For the last 200 years, the North — more specifically North America and Western Europe — dominated the world economy and was the engine of growth. The Russian Revolution and its colonisation of Eastern Europe created the tripartite world of First (North), Second (Com...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - IT’S ALMOST a month since United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon informed Haiti’s President Michel Martelly of the quite shocking decision to invoke “legal immunity” for rejecting compensation claims by some 5 000 Haitian cholera victims. Th...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat received grant funding from the Inter-American Development Bank to support the development of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS). A Study/Business Innovation Tour aimed at building capacity among renewable energy (RE) project...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Former chairman of the Leeward Islands Pilots Association (LIALPA), Captain Michael Blackburn, has won his unfair dismissal case against regional carrier LIAT. The Labour Department recently handed down the ruling. In the conciliation report, the acting Labour Commis...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - DESCRIBING PRAISES being heaped on deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez as Damascus-like, Government Senator K.D. Knight, last Friday, chided members of the Opposition who spoke in the Senate during a tribute to the fallen solider. Knight argued that the Jamaica Labo...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The national airline, Bahamasair, recorded a loss of US$11.7 million last year compared with US$9.8 million in 2011, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development, Philip Davis, has announced. He said that for the period July-December 2012, the airlines reven...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has told his party’s convention that with or without him, the United Progress Party (UPP) remains the best option for leadership of the country. He was speaking as the UPP gets set to choose the leaders that will pilot it through ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace has accused Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of bringing the Vincentian economy to its worst state since the country gained independence in 1979. In an address to the New York chapter of the New Democratic Party (NDP), on Saturday, Eus...