CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony leaves here for Ecuador to attend the XII Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP). The meeting on Tuesday brings together heads of state or governments, with St. Lucia hoping to formalis...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Jamaica will host the 8th Annual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) in December, the executive director of the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Ronald Jackson, has said. More than 400 delegates are expecte...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government will table legislation next month to promote green energy, Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Chris Sinckler has said. Sinckler said the Freundel Stuart government has devised practical ways to build out the alternative energy sector thro...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) must quickly decide whether it is up to the job it is mandated to perform. If it is not, it must move over and let someone else get on with it. We especially refer to the agency's ability to determine Jamaica's future energy needs,...

BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, CMC – The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) says it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), formalising a collaborative relationship for addressing water priorities in the region. It said the MOU signifies a bu...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - TAX BREAKS FOR businesses and individuals who produce and use alternative energy are among a wide range of concessions coming under long-awaited green legislation. The financing for the initiative has been also approved by the Central Bank....

Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- Haiti officials yesterday eased restrictions and allowed their compatriots to return with products bought in the market held Mondays and Fridays on the Dominican side of the border at Dajabón, despite the import ban in effect for some of them. The surpris...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - LAST WEEK’S announced findings by a group of international scientists that the 2010 outbreak of a cholera epidemic in Haiti was caused by then United Nations peacekeeping troops would further fuel strident compensation demands by families of the more than 8000 dead. On ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The landslide victory of Jack Warner speaks to the demise of the UNC and could also signal a real possibility of the former national security minister becoming the country’s next prime minister, says former government minister Ralph Maraj. Maraj was among a televisio...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - At the end, everybody “knew” how it would turn out. But hardly anyone had dared to assert with confidence the compelling likelihood of the result. Jack Warner, the challenger to the ruling order, yesterday won the Chaguanas West by-election that he had himself a...