BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, CMC – A new report released on Thursday says family farming has key role to play in food security in the Caribbean and Latin America. The report, “The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas 2014: A Perspective on Latin America and the Cari...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SINCE slavery, we have had a problem creating jobs. The well-intentioned PNP and JLP made no impact. Full employment was achieved by communists or managed democracies as Singapore — the work of firm leaders. Why can't we? I don't think we should cede the country to...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SINCE slavery, we have had a problem creating jobs. The well-intentioned PNP and JLP made no impact. Full employment was achieved by communists or managed democracies as Singapore — the work of firm leaders. Why can't we? I don't think we should cede the country to...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - News from Trinidad & Tobago read: "Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders met in Port-of-Spain this past Tuesday and agreed to the formation of a Commission on the Economy as they seek to revive the ailing economies of the 15-member regional grouping." CARICOM Commission on t...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - This week, the leaders of the world — including our prime minister — are gathered at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York for the annual General Assembly. This exercise is often dismissed as a glorious talk shop with photo opportunities. Indeed, Jamaica...

PM UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago says based on what the international community has witnessed since commitments were made at the Millennium Summit in 2007, progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been “uneven.” In addressing the 68th Sess...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC - Antigua and Barbuda Wednesday called for a re-shaping of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) citing the challenges faced by developing countries, including the Caribbean, in meeting the commitments under the initiative. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Bal...

NEW YORK- A request to have nations that engaged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave begin paying reparations was again issued by Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer during his address to the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Speaking on Wednesday Spencer made the case for Caribbe...

UNITED NATIONS -- John William Ashe’s father lived to see him graduate with advanced degrees, but he left the career diplomat with sobering words. “He said to me, now that he has seen me graduate with a Ph.D., he can die,” Ashe remembers. Three months later, Arnold Ashe, a retired ...

Caribbean leaders are using their spotlight on the global stage at the United Nations General Assembly to call for slavery reparations, an end to the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and to highlight the development challenges impacting vulnerable nations. Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Bar...