PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The United States military is engaged in a month-long training exercise with the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) as part of the efforts to boost support for the region. A statement from the US Embassy here said that similar training exercises and human...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - TRANSPORTATION is on the agenda of the Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government in Trinidad and Tobago during the period July 4 to 6, which will be attended by President Donald Ramotar. Cognisant of the cha...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express - THE CEREMONIAL opening of the 34th regular summit of the Caribbean Community takes place in Port of Spain this evening amid widening complaints across this region against deep frustration with two critically related issues—regional air transportation and hass...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - FOR the next two days, stakeholders from the region gathered at a high-level meeting in Kingston will discuss a range of issues common to the Caribbean, including sustainable energy, social policy, macroeconomics and trade, climate change, and natural resource protec...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – At least 15 Caribbean countries and 17 companies have agreed to join forces to preserve and protect the region’s marine and coastal environment as well as accelerate the transition to renewable energy. “The Summit of Caribbean Political and Business Leaders w...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), David Massiah, is calling on regional governments to re-engage the Caribbean trade union movement in a similar fashion as they did in previous years. The CCL along with the main regional private sector group we...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Trinidad and Tobago Labour Minister, Errol McLeod, is not giving the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) free movement provisions of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) much of a chance if labour standards are not harmonised in the region. Addressing the opening ses...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The chairman of the Council of LIAT trade unions, Chester Humphrey, has poured cold water on efforts by at least two regional government leaders and a senior aviation official that the aviation industry should also be classified as an essential service, with legi...

The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island over the past three years as some have thought, according to a new study published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiolog...

(Trinidad Guardian) – Vice President of Operations at Caribbean Airlines (CAL), Captain Jagmohan Singh, has been appointed to run the day-to-day operations of the airline following the sudden resignation of acting CEO Robert Corbie on Friday. In an interview, CAL communications manager Clint W...