PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Seven Government Ministers, including National Security Minister and UNC chairman Jack Warner, were in Tobago yesterday for a meeting with political leader of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), Ashworth Jack. The meeting took place at the Coco Reef Resort in Crow...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A national strike, which could see thousands of workers on the streets, is now looming following LIME’s decision not to withdraw dismissal letters to 97 employees. A last-ditch effort mediated by Minister of Labour Esther Byer-Suckoo at the Ministry of Labour’s of...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Western countries Wednesday pressured Guyana to ensure that Local Government elections last held here in 1994 take place during the coming months. In a joint statement issued by the United States Ambassador D. Brent Hardt, the United Kingdom High Commissioner Andrew ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is sending a delegation to the fifth session of the Inter-Governmental Negotiation Committee in Geneva later this month where an international ban on mercury will be discussed. The meeting is scheduled for January 13-18 and local stakeholders, including offici...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - PRIVATE Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) President Christopher Zacca says Jamaica will be diving deep into an economic crisis if the country continues to be without an International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement. What's more, Zacca figures that the longer it takes to se...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - MR Delano Franklyn may well be right. Perhaps the Chicago Tribune was unfair in its adverse characterisation of the Jamaican economy, using Greece as a sort of measuring stick. What is not in question, though, is that our economy is in an awful state — badly in need of res...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - There will be temptation among skittish members of the Government, we fear, to slink behind the recent acknowledgement by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard that the Fund underestimated the potentially deflationary impact of its policies...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - WITH SPECULATIONS rife over whether Venezuela would continue the PetroCaribe arrangement if Hugo Chávez is replaced as president, Jamaica's energy minister says willpower such as the ailing leader's is a necessary ingredient to the survival of the deal. "I think t...

Haitian ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide answered prosecutors' questions Wednesday in a landmark investigation for the country over charges he used homeless children to get donations. Thousands of Aristide supporters gathered outside a courthouse and poured into the streets to protest what t...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony is heading a two-member delegation to Venezuela for a meeting of PetroCaribe, an initiative of Caracas allowing many Caribbean countries to purchase oil on conditions of preferential payment. St. Lucia has not joined the alliance that was la...