GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Police clashed with a group of protestors outside the National Assembly building Wednesday, after they demanded that the long awaited Local Government elections be held this year. The last Local Government elections were held on August 8, 1994 with the ruling People&...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Britain does not regard Dominica’s move to join the appellate jurisdiction of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as an act of “anti-Privy Council”, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said here on Wednesday. Skerrit said that his adminis...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Finance Ministers will meet on Wednesday 7 August in Trinidad and Tobago within the framework of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP). High on the agend...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express - China’s Ambassador to T&T, Huang Xingyuan, has updated Beijing’s upbeat prospects for relations with the Caribbean, with T&T identified as the centrepiece of related arrangements. It was this country that Chinese President Xin Xinping chose for ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express - National Security Minister Emmanuel George and Communication Minister Jamal Mohammed are expected to lose their Cabinet portfolios when Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar reshuffles her deck of ministers. Senior Government sources told the Express the reshuffl...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - Politics in the twin state of Trinidad and Tobago has always been a carnival of strong personalities such as Messrs Uriah Butler, C L R James, George Padmore, Stokeley Camichael, Basdeo Panday and Dr Eric Williams. The democratic process has experienced some unusual eve...

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican Government appears to have been taken by surprise by reports on the weekend that Venezuela is contemplating a 100 per cent increase on interest payable on oil it exports to the region under the PetroCaribe agreement. Both Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell and Finance ...

KINGSTOWN, St, Vincent, CMC - Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace has written to Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves asking him to lobby his Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to intervene in the ongoing political situation in St. Kitts and Nevis. “This state of affairs is patently unacceptable,&rdqu...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has told legislators that equipment capable of intercepting communications had been purchased by the previous government. “We found one piece that has the ability to monitor a person home from as far a half a mile awa...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government Monday said it was concerned that farmers were abandoning their field even as the authorities continue with their efforts aimed at eradicating the Black Stigatoka disease which has severely affected banana farms on the...