PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Take back Caroni lands that are lying fallow and use them to produce food, says Independent Senator Subhas Ramkhelawan. Speaking during the budget debate at the Senate sitting yesterday, Ramkhelawan said in the national budget, some $1.3 billion was allocated toward agricu...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia hopes the U.N. Security Council will agree a resolution this week to support a deal for Syria to abandon its chemical arms, but talks with the United States have been rocky, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday. Speaking before negotiations expected on the sidelines o...

BRUSSELS — As Angela Merkel savored the results of Germany’s national elections, newspapers on the left and right in Greece on Monday gave the same mournful assessment of what the result means beyond German borders. “Victory for the Queen of Austerity,” declared the front pag...

WASHINGTON, CMC – Barbados Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), John Beale, has been appointed Vice Chair of a Working Group that will lead discussions on the Strategic Vision of the hemispheric body. The group, established by the OAS Permanent Council, is ch...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prominent Barbadian jurist Sir David Simmons Monday called on the Trinidad and Tobago government to review the Commission of Inquiry legislation after the leader of the Jamaat-al Muslimeen group failed to appear before the Commission probing the circumstances tha...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - While Bermuda wrestles with the thorny topic of introducing casinos to the island, cruise ship passengers could soon be allowed to gamble on board their vessels while in port. A bill to allow in-port gambling has been tabled in the House of Assembly. The legislation, long so...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff cancelled a U.S. state visit over allegations that the National Security Agency listened into her conversations and spied on state-run oil company Petrobras. On Tuesday, as she kicks off the United Nations 68th General Assembly, she&...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government said Monday that it would make the “necessary changes” to the Electronic Crimes Bill after the legislation was criticised by regional and international media groups as curbing free speech on the island. “I have agreed...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia Employers Federation (SLEF) is calling on the government to lower the near one-year old Value Added Tax (VAT) so as to provide “some breathing space” to local business in the face of job losses and business closures. "This reduction will pr...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler is leading a delegation to Britain and the United States hoping to attract new investments to Barbados. The delegation, which includes Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, will meet with bankers and po...