KINGSTON, Jamaica - This is a submission from the Mona campus organisation, UWI Leads Social Justice and Change. We write in response to your article 'Patterson urges CARICOM to condemn Dom Rep's latest immigration law against Haitians' dated Thursday, October 10, 2013, where former Pri...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Farm Up Jamaica, a bold and innovative agricultural private-sector programme designed to significantly boost the organic production of selected crops in Jamaica was launched last Thursday evening at the Kimberly Hotel in New York City. Farm Up Jamaica is the brainchild of New Yo...

debt PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran has called on the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde to move quickly to address the debt challenges and low economic growth issues facing Caribbean countries. Governor Rambarran made the ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Maps of Venezuela hanging on the walls of schoolrooms and in government offices show a large striped area to the east of the country’s border with Guyana marked “Zone in Reclamation.” For more than a century, Venezuela has claimed that it is the rightful ...

cooperation KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Several areas for technical cooperation between Argentina and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were identified when Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to that South American nation earlier this month. Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to t...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada is examining the possibility of establishing an Elections Boundaries Commission as it seeks to overhaul its electoral system, a senior government official has said. Parliamentary Secretary for Information in the Office of the Prime Minister, Winston ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Debates Commission is appealing to Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar to re-consider her decision not to participate in a leader’s debate on Tuesday as the voters prepare to elect Mayors and Local Government councilors on October ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Government is being advised, by two well-known economists, to begin making contingency plans to limit the impact that a prolonged impasse in the US could have on Antigua & Barbuda’s economy. Regional economist McCarthy Marie and local economist and politic...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The unprecedented withdrawal of Barbados’ bond offer on the international financial market has serious implications for the financing of Government spending in the short term, the foreign reserves position in the medium term, and the country’s external debt servici...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - In its publication on remittances released last month, the World Bank said Antigua & Barbuda has regained its status as a high income economy, leaving the majority of regional developing states behind. The reversal comes after the island of 89,070 residents finalised an Inte...