KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has confirmed six cases of the “Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic 09” in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to a statement issued by Chief Medical officer, Simon Keizer. Last week, classes at t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will address the United Nations General Assembly today at 7:30 p.m. Persad-Bissessar arrived in New York yesterday morning to attend the 68th United Nations General Assembly. She is due to return home tomorrow. According to a release ...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) began its annual debate here on Tuesday grappling with problems from ethnic and religious extremism to the ongoing global economic and financial crisis. Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador, John W. Ashe, who is presiding over...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Tuesday provided a shopping list that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries should examine as efforts continue to deepen the regional integration movement. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, speaking to reporters after his Cabinet met with a de...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prominent Barbadian jurist Sir David Simmons Monday called on the Trinidad and Tobago government to review the Commission of Inquiry legislation after the leader of the Jamaat-al Muslimeen group failed to appear before the Commission probing the circumstances tha...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia Employers Federation (SLEF) is calling on the government to lower the near one-year old Value Added Tax (VAT) so as to provide “some breathing space” to local business in the face of job losses and business closures. "This reduction will pr...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government said Monday that it would make the “necessary changes” to the Electronic Crimes Bill after the legislation was criticised by regional and international media groups as curbing free speech on the island. “I have agreed...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Take back Caroni lands that are lying fallow and use them to produce food, says Independent Senator Subhas Ramkhelawan. Speaking during the budget debate at the Senate sitting yesterday, Ramkhelawan said in the national budget, some $1.3 billion was allocated toward agricu...

New statistics have been released showing that the cholera epidemic that affects Haiti, which has infected more than 600,000 people, has reached a death toll of 8,190 three years after its outbreak in 2010. Infected peacekeepers from the United Nations are thought to have brought the disease to Hai...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler is leading a delegation to Britain and the United States hoping to attract new investments to Barbados. The delegation, which includes Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, will meet with bankers and po...