Santo Domingo.- European Union ambassador Irene Horejs on Tuesday said Haiti and the Dominican Republic should hold "technical" talks to resolve bilateral trade disputes stoked by Port-au-Prince’s ban on several Dominican products. Although she urged both countries to live in harmony on the i...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin La Rocque Tuesday said that the global economic crisis is having a severe impact on the region resulting in stagnation or declining growth rates. Addressing representatives from international development partners ...

BRIDGETOWN—Caribbean countries have been warned not to lose sight of the bigger goal of economic transformation and development even as they remain pre-occupied with overall economic growth. Former deputy director of the Central Bank of T&T Dr Shelton Nicholls said Caribbean countries &ldq...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – It is undoubtedly the case that the essential structures of authoritarian rule, using the army as a critical instrument of stabilization, were constructed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, in his long period of domination following the military’s abolition of the Egyptian monar...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - President of the Republic of China Ma Ying-jeou will pay a two-day State visit St. Kitts and Nevis as part of a Latin America and the Caribbean tour next month. A statement from the Taiwanese embassy here said that President Ma will arrive here on August 18 as part of h...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - DESMOND HAYNES and Andy Roberts have achieved much success in cricket for the West Indies. Now, they will look to do the same for their respective franchises when the Caribbean Premier League’s (CPL) T20 competition begins tonight at Kensington Oval....

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The board of directors for Caribbean Airlines is on schedule to present its report to the Finance Minister within its three-month timeframe, chairman Phillip Marshall said yesterday. He added that the board had been undergoing several “immersion sessions” on th...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Former prime minister Stephenson King was swept out of the leadership of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) after his former tourism minister Allen Chastanet scored a convincing victory in Sunday’s poll. King, who led the UWP into defeat in the 2011 gene...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Monday said he had instructed his lawyers to write a newspaper and a columnist seeking an apology over a story it ran regarding the charges laid against opposition senator report Vynnette Frederick. Gonsalves said he was seeking ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – More than 150 delegates are in Grenada attending the 19th Regional meeting on bird conservation for the Caribbean. Organised by the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), it is being held under the theme “ Bird Conservation i...