BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is questioning on what grounds the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) or even the Commonwealth can intervene in the political situation in St. Kitts-Nevis. Opposition legislators have accused regional gov...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - JAMAICA continues to agonise over the cost of electricity and the capacity to pay for its oil imports. This agony started with the first oil price shock in 1973 and the degree of agony has varied with the ebb and flow of oil prices. The country is in the throes of tryin...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - The Portia Simpson Miller Cabinet has approved legislative changes that could remove one of the most controversial provisions of the Child Care and Protection Act which allows a judge to incarcerate a child who is deemed to be "beyond control". "This will result in judge...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - WE hope that the Green Paper on the draft Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) and Entrepreneurial Policy, which was tabled in Parliament in May, has not been left to gather cobwebs like other documents now before the legislature. Even if he does not show it, we kno...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - FOLLOWING THE establishment of an embassy in Brazil last year, the Jamaican Government is indicating that it is moving post-haste to ensure that the country is able to capitalise on tourism and investment opportunities served up by the South American nation. Alison Stone...

Moscow, Russia: Bob Marley hits blaring throughout the Luzhniki Stadium; Russians walking around in the black, green, and gold of the Jamaican flag; every Jamaican in Moscow an instant hit, the centre of attention. These are the inroads that Jamaica's early three-medal performance at the IAAF Wo...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Jamaica has been seeking to capitalise on the buzz being created by its athletes in Russia with the hosting of what it has dubbed Jamaica House Moscow. The initiative follows a similar effort mounted at the 2012 Olympics in London and seeks to boost tourist arrivals from...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - FOR the second consecutive year, a student from the Essequibo Coast in Region 2(Pomeroon/Supenaam) has topped the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, this time with a regional record of twenty subjects. Sixteen-year-old Zimeena Rasheed of ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - GOVERNMENT SEEMS TO have woken up to the realization of the need to act and to do so with some measure of urgency in an effort to stop the economic morass which has stymied or eliminated growth in recent years. This call to action was evident, given some of the me...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - A THROW-YOUR-HANDS-up-in-the-air Budget! That was how Opposition Leader Mia Mottley described yesterday’s Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals delivered by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler. “It is a cut-and-paste Budget with no clear con...