KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Egyptian military coup that removed the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi was justified as an act to save democracy and preserve law and order by preventing the country from sinking into further chaos and violence. The military claimed that it was prompted not o...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Diplomacy, stripped bare, is conversation taking place between global leaders behind closed doors. As with everything else, it is being impacted by global trends which keep emerging more rapidly than before. The IT age has seen a world, formerly home to a select few some ten t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It makes perfect sense why the United States is desperate to get its hands on Edward Snowden. Perhaps because he is likely to spill even more beans about the United States National Security Agency’s (NSA) clandestine activities. This is exactly what he is doing though b...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Value-added trade contributes nearly 30 per cent to developing countries' gross domestic product, on average, compared with 18 per cent in developed countries, according to the recently released World Investment Report 2013. The report also revealed that last year, for the f...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has defended the integrity of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) after five local athletes, including former world champion Asafa Powell and Olympic medallist Sherone Simpson, tested positive for a banned substance. Speaking in P...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Members of the main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) walked out of the Parliament on Tuesday night accusing Speaker, Michael Carrington, of unfair treatment in his rulings. Opposition leader Mia Mottley led the walkout after the Speaker refused to provide her ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it will soon launch the multi-million dollar rare earth elements extraction pilot project, being spearheaded the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) and Japanese entity, Nippon Light Metals. Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (STEM) Minister, Phillip Paul...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has appointed former attorney general and minister of legal affairs, Justice Charles Ramson, as the country’s first ever Commissioner of Information. Ramson took the oath before President Donald Ramotar describing his position as a “c...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC - The Bahamas government is urging people from “defaming our country” insisting it is not engaged in any inhumane treatment of people at detention centers in the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said the Perry Christie has “again learned with reg...

US efforts to help rebuild Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake have been plagued by poor planning, delays and mistaken cost estimates that have forced many projects to be scaled back, the US' Government Accountability Office (GAO) has concluded in a recently-released report. Of the $US65...