KINGSTON, Jamaica - Businessman Claude Clarke, in defence of Jamaican manufacturing, said last Thursday that Jamaica should suspend the Common External Tariff, no matter the legal consequences. His appeal comes amid rumblings from critics of Caricom who want Jamaica to break away from the bloc, cit...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA loses $15 billion in revenues from subsidising imports from the Caribbean Community (Caricom), according to former industry minister Claude Clarke. Clarke, who is managing director of Richmond Valley, made the declaration during his keynote address at the Jamaica Manufac...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - IT WHAT could well be viewed as a pleasant coincidence, the Governments of Guyana and Barbados on Friday agreed on a joint declaration about a coming formal accord on improved immigration arrangements between the two CARICOM countries. This initiative, resulting from a meeting...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caricom Secretary General came to town last week and managed to deliver a lecture distinguished mainly by its silence on two of the most explosive issues in the Caribbean.  Within 24 hours of his lecture, one of them broke wide open. The Caribbean Court of Justice...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A landmark decision by the top regional court in a case brought by Jamaican Shanique Myrie against the Barbadian Government is being seen as paving the way for freer movement in Caricom for Guyanese and other nationalities. On Friday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) tossed...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - As a committed proponent of regional integration we, too, welcome the ruling delivered on Friday by the Caribbean Court of Justice in the Shanique Myrie case. The ruling by Sir Dennis Byron and his panel effectively sends a message to all Immigration authorities throughout...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - MS Shanique Myrie tells us she believes that, because she pressed her case against the Barbados authorities at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), "things will be better for Jamaicans who travel to that country". This newspaper thinks she has done much more. By her courage an...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - From her busy schedule of travel and other obligations, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must make time for an ugly crisis engulfing two member states of Cariforum, which shares membership with Caricom, of which she also serves as chairman. The crisis has been triggere...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is expected to deliver a land mark ruling on Friday in the case against Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who sued the Government of Barbados. Myrie, 25, who was granted leave by the CCJ to file the action, alleged that when she t...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it is seeking to establish a fee structure for issuing CARICOM Skills Certificates in keeping with the amendments to the CARICOM Free Movement of Skilled Persons Act, which seeks to broaden the categories of skilled nationals able to access ...