Media personnel and spokespersons in Dominica who attended a three day CSME Media Workshop at the Windsor Park Stadium’s conference room has hailed the workshop as beneficial and informative. The reporters and spokespersons, who participated in the workshop held between 23 & 25 February 2...

“While I fully understand the political constraints faced by our Heads of Governments in the court of public opinion, as UN Secretary-General Special Envoy, I must continue to make the case that principles of human rights demand that the barriers to HIV related stigma and discrimination be rem...

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Caribbean countries were on Wednesday expressing concerns over a new strain of HIV virus that has been identified by Cuban scientists. The Ministry of Health here said that research indicates that this strain CRF19CPX develops much faster into full blown AIDS than p...

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Secretary General, Hugh Riley, presented the State of the Industry Report 2014 at a news conference at the CTO HQ in Barbados on Tuesday 10 February. There, he declared:   “With a strong year for air travel, a positive performance by the acco...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A second international-branded hotel opened Tuesday in the Haitian capital in what backers of the project and officials hope will be a spur to further economic development in the impoverished country. The 175-room Marriott Port-au-Prince is a four-star hotel geared pri...

The West Indies Cricket Board has extended sincere congratulations to Chris Gayle, following his amazing double hundred that propelled West Indies to their second victory today in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, when they beat Zimbabwe by 73 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis Method. Gayle was in recor...

I therefore wish to announce that earlier today I issued the Proclamations that identify 28th February, 2015 as the date of the Dissolution of the 10th Parliament of Guyana and the Ten Regional Democratic Councils. As I have previously announced, General and Regional Elections will be held on May 1...

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is scheduled to leave the island tomorrow, Wednesday, February 25, to attend the Twenty-Sixth Inter-sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which gets under way in The Bahamas, from February 26 to 27. As incoming Chair of the reg...

Dymphna van der Lans MANCHESTER, Jamaica, Monday February 23, 2015 – On Friday, officials from the Clinton Foundation joined government leaders and energy experts in Manchester, Jamaica to celebrate the groundbreaking of Phase III of the Wigton Windfarm. This project ...

The Global Environment Facility-funded-Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (GEF-CReW) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will collaborate with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Caribbean Water and Sewerage Association Inc. (CAWASA) to convene a one-week work...