(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     A number of Guyanese youth interested in starting their own businesses will soon be benefitting from entrepreneurial workshops and seminars hosted through the regional Creativity for Employment and Business Opportuni...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community is deeply concerned by the ruling of 23 September 2013, of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on nationality which modifies retroactively legislation which bestowed citizenship...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Maps of Venezuela hanging on the walls of schoolrooms and in government offices show a large striped area to the east of the country’s border with Guyana marked “Zone in Reclamation.” For more than a century, Venezuela has claimed that it is the rightful ...

cooperation KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Several areas for technical cooperation between Argentina and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were identified when Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to that South American nation earlier this month. Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Debates Commission is appealing to Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar to re-consider her decision not to participate in a leader’s debate on Tuesday as the voters prepare to elect Mayors and Local Government councilors on October ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada is examining the possibility of establishing an Elections Boundaries Commission as it seeks to overhaul its electoral system, a senior government official has said. Parliamentary Secretary for Information in the Office of the Prime Minister, Winston ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Government is being advised, by two well-known economists, to begin making contingency plans to limit the impact that a prolonged impasse in the US could have on Antigua & Barbuda’s economy. Regional economist McCarthy Marie and local economist and politic...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The unprecedented withdrawal of Barbados’ bond offer on the international financial market has serious implications for the financing of Government spending in the short term, the foreign reserves position in the medium term, and the country’s external debt servici...

debt PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran has called on the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde to move quickly to address the debt challenges and low economic growth issues facing Caribbean countries. Governor Rambarran made the ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda has launched its “Citizenship by Investment Programme” (CIP) with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer saying the initiative is to generate investments and jobs for nationals and to put the island on the road to sustainable growth and ...