There is a need for greater co-operation and coordination of action of regional bodies with regard to the issue of protecting the health and safety of consumers. Barbados industry minister, Donville Inniss, who is also responsible for consumer matters, expressed this view as he gave remarks on Thu...

Antigua & Barbuda has signed a $200 million RNB or US $36 million agreement with the Chinese government, officials report. It follows Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s official visit to the Asian country. Part of the deal is for financing the Deep Water Harbour Development Project, which in...

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today adopted a Declaration calling on the three branches of government of Haiti to comply with the agreement knows as El Rancho and to call legislative and municipal elections by the end of 2014, and also convened a Special General ...

Ten Officers, including one from the St .Kitts and Nevis Defence Force (SKNDF), have graduated from the Guyana Defence Force Senior Command and Staff Course (SCSC) Number 13. Having successfully completed the course. St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Force Capt. P. Kayode Sutton and his colleagues are now e...

EL SALVADOR, Aug 27, CMC - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says poverty is on the decline in the Caribbean and Latin American. In launching its latest report here to complement global analysis on vulnerability and resilience that was presented in Japan, the UNDP said more than 56 m...

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has outgrown the region. “We have been in the Caribbean for many years. We have expanded as much as we can within the Caribbean. We need now to share our experiences beyond the Caribbean into other areas, into other countries and in the Diaspora and s...

PRIME Minister Freundel Stuart says it is important that leaders of Small Island Developing States attend the upcoming Third International UN SIDS Conference in Samoa. Speaking ahead of his departure for the September 1 to 4 meeting, Stuart stated: “We need to be a part of the conversation in...

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 06, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low. Executive Director of CARPHA, Dr. C. James Hospedales said "There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in the Carib...

In an era where food security is paramount, there has to be a compromise in how land is used in this island. Making it clear that competition will always exist between agriculture, housing and tourism for land, representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in...

The cultural industries sector can help to boost the local economy, but it calls for an all of society approach, including the support of the private sector to ensure that it can achieve that goal. Minister of Culture, Stephen Lashley spoke of the potential of that sector as he noted that every ye...