BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS) still have difficulty accessing funds, and Minister of the Environment and Drainage Dr Denis Lowe says it impacts on their ability to reach some of their development objectives. Lowe called for “the provision of new additional and p...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean Airlines and Colombia’s Avianca are in talks that could result in direct flights between Colombia and T&T. This would facilitate easier business and trade between the two countries, said Alfonso Múnera, secretary general, Association of Caribbean ...

The Second China-Latin America and the Caribbean Think Tanks Forum is being held five years after the start of the subprime crisis. The worst and longest since 1930s, the crisis has been largely concentrated in industrialised countries. The eurozone will remain in recession in 2013 and its 2014 GDP...

BEIJING, China, CMC – Former Antigua and Barbuda diplomat, Sir Ronald Sanders, says Caribbean countries are still in need of special attention and urged China not to place the region in the same category as many Latin American countries. Addressing a China-Latin American Forum here on Tuesday...

CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says equality is the “guiding principle” for a paradigm change in the Caribbean and Latin America. In addressing the social summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - In a perverse sort of way, the not guilty verdict against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder case in Florida was good for America. The evidence lies in the scores of demonstrations last Saturday across the United States (US) against the outcome of the case, but more im...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – With approximately eight million viewers world-wide tuning in, the islands of Antigua and Barbuda will take centre stage as the romantic backdrop for the ABC Television primetime reality series, The Bachelorette. Antigua & Barbuda, ‘The Romance Capital of t...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - A striking photograph of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Bomber, appears on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Resembling iconic images of a young Jim Morrison or Bob Dylan, the cover vividly conveys a disturbing truth: that the current face of...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE 54-MEMBER Commonwealth of Nations, among which are a dozen independent states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), likes projecting itself as a microcosm of the world’s diverse peoples of various languages, ethnicities and cultures with shared commitment to democrat...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and her Attorney General Anand Ramlogan have filed pre-action protocol letters against Opposition leader Dr. Keith Rowley as the fall out continues over the “emailgate” scandal in Trinidad and Tobago. Attorney Donn...