BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The exodus of a number of non-nationals from Barbados in recent times has affected the economy in a negative way. Mia Mottley, leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party stated this as she addressed a meeting of the St Vincent and Grenadines Association at the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) has its own plan to save the Barbados economy. The first two areas on its to-do list are for Government to reduce the country’s national debt by selling off non-strategic, non-core Government assets such as Hilton Barbados t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - JACK WARNER’S convincing victory in Monday’s by-election for the Chaguanas West constituency can be subjected to varying political interpretations. These will undoubtedly be coming in the days ahead from political scientists and other media commentators. We may...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In their concession speeches on Monday night, both the defeated United National Congress candidate Khadijah Ameen and her leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised to continue the “work” in Chaguanas West. This being politics, however, the services provided by the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - It is still too early to determine what sort of impact Jack Warner’s victory in Monday’s Chaguanas West by-election will have on investor confidence in Trinidad and Tobago, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Hugh Howard said yesterday. In a b...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Jack Warner’s victory in Chaguanas West has laid bare some uncertainties within the People’s Partnership coalition. The People’s Partnership, which won 29 seats in May 2010, started out with a 21/6/2 equation—21 United National Congress (UNC) members...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Interim leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Austin Jack” Warner Tuesday said it would be “premature” to say whether or not his party would seek membership of the People’s Partnership government following his convincing victory i...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former justice minister Herbert Volney Tuesday resigned from the ruling United National Congress (UNC), less than a day after the party suffered a humiliating defeat in its stronghold of Chaguanas West in southern Trinidad. In a letter sent to the party’s ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines does not hide his passion for wanting reparation for slavery, which he describes as a “brutal, exploitative and dehumanising system”. He insists that Caribbean countries do “h...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The world’s population is expected to reach nine billion by 2025. If for no other reason, this fact should place the issue of food and water security at the top of any national agenda. How will all of these people be fed? Will we be able to produce enough food? How will ...