EDITORIAL: Make better use of technology

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - In this country’s efforts to grapple with its challenging economic circumstances as well as build a platform on which to record growth and boost job opportunities for its people, some emphasis will have to be placed on making greater and better use of technology. It is ...
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Minister tells exporters to explore food market

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The food and beverage sector can be used to diversify T&T’s economy, according to Trade, Industry and Investment Minister Vasant Bharath. In an interview, the minister said local manufacturers are either already exporting their products or are ready to export and ...
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Government to make changes to smoking ban

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Health Minister Dr. Fenton Ferguson is expected to outline changes to the no-smoking regulations when Parliament meets on Tuesday following an executive council meeting of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) where government senator KD Knight was booed for h...
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Reparations for slavery? Wishing and hoping…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE news that 14 countries making up CARICOM are about to launch a formal, concerted effort to lay out claims of reparations for slavery from Britain, France and the Netherlands immediately suggested to me that many of the leaders in our neck of the woods are either too taken up ...
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Better in the Bahamas? Not if you’re Haitian

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - His home in flames last Monday night, top priority for 74-year-old Lucien Janise was to snatch up his passport. “Everything burn, everything gone… The only thing I could save was my documents, that’s it. No clothes, no nothing.” Perhaps 50 mainly wo...
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T&T and Venezuela hold energy talks

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Second Meeting of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) for the Unitisation of Cross Border Hydrocarbon Reservoirs between T&T and Venezuela was held at the offices of the Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs in Port of Spain on July 23 and 24. The meeting involved de...
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Haiti fighting against deadly health menace

Cholera is likely to be a public health problem in Haiti for many years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts of the government's 2.2-billion-dollar National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in Haiti is financing for sanitation syst...
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Cost of living rises in June

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The latest data from the Central Statistical Office indicates that headline inflation in Trinidad and Tobago accelerated in June even though core inflation remained low and stable, the Central Bank said yesterday. Headline inflation rose to 6.8 per cent in June compared to 5...
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Not the time!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Public servants in Barbados can breathe a bit easier. For now. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler has promised that if the struggling economy does reach the stage where Barbadians are to be put on the breadline, trade unions and the population will be consulted first. “I...
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