NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will make no comment regarding allegations of abuse at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre until the official investigation is completed. But Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell has criticised the main opposition Free National Movement ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) is urging regional fashion designers to participate in the Dominicana Moda to be held in the Dominica Republic in October. Caribbean Export said under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF),...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The troubled regional airline, LIAT, Wednesday denied media reports that smoke was seen coming from one of its aircraft that had developed a pressurization problem while on a flight from Dominica to Barbados on Tuesday night. LIAT, which earlier this week confi...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Wednesday said it remained committed called to working with the international community in the development of Haiti, still recovering from a 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 people and left more than a million others homel...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to be here with all of you at the Closing Ceremony of the Eleventh Caribbean Festival of Arts and to deliver these brief remarks on behalf of the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, H.E ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), Mr Percival Marie, is set to embark on his first official visit to Grenada since that country assumed the Chairmanship of CARIFORUM, with effe...

Three Hundred and forty (340) Surinamese youth and ten (10) Chinese Shaolin Monks stole the show at the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA XI in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday night. As if to give living testimony to Surinamese President His Excellency Desi Bouterse’s assertion that culture &ldqu...

A special and unique celebration of Caribbean culture begins here and now with the Opening Ceremony of this Eleventh commemoration of CARIFESTA. We have come from all over the Caribbean Community and are joined by our family and many friends from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, to experience...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - The forced departure of athletes Kelly-Ann Baptiste and Semoy Hackett from the Trinidad and Tobago team camp at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow should stand as a moment for introspection and careful reconsideration of the practices and methodolog...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Austin “Jack Warner” has sent pre-action protocol letters to the football organisation as well as former Barbados chief justice, Sir David S...