KINGSTON, Jamaica - OFFICIALS of the Financial Investigations Division are urging the Government to take steps to carry out its commitment to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force to ensure several groups are regulated by November this year or risk seeing the country on a watch list which could ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - LIAT Airlines landed its inaugural official flight at the Ogle International Airport on Monday at 15:30h which departed Grantley Adams International Airport at 12:30h filled to capacity. Present to witness touchdown of the 50-seater Dash 8 aircraft was Transport Minister Robeso...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARIAN Dr Maria Agard says Government may soon face a vote of no-confidence. That was the message the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) MP for Christ Church West passed on to her constituents at the constituency branch meeting on Sunday....

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon yesterday congratulated CARICOM on its recently celebrated 40th anniversary The Secretary General spoke at the Seventh UN-Caricom general meeting currently taking place at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA. “...

CARICOM NEW YORK, CMC –United Nations Secretary General Bank Ki-moon Monday praised the regional integration movement, CARICOM, for its work in shaping the future of the Caribbean. Addressing the seventh general meeting of the CARICOM, its associated institutions and the United Nations, Ban sa...

NEW YORK, CMC – The seventh general meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), its associated institutions and the United Nations began here on Monday with CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque underscoring the importance of providing aid to developing countries like those in the Caribbe...

HONG KONG — A series of earthquakes in Gansu Province in northwestern China set off landslides and building collapses in an impoverished mountainous region Monday, killing at least 56 people and injuring more than 400, according to figures from the Gansu Provincial Seismological Bureau that we...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The news of the latest scandals in the world of track and field has left even the most simple-minded with a numbness. That a number of leading track and field athletes had tested positive for banned substances was not what was expected. While this latest doping scandal does n...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Rodger Samuel Monday began a week long fast “for the soul of the nation” amid growing speculation here that he is preparing to quit the Trinidad and Tobago government. “I believe there is some force t...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- More than 1,000 people in Haiti participated Friday in a rare street demonstration to protest homosexuality and a proposal to legalize gay marriage in the Caribbean nation. The protest brought together a mix of religious groups, from Protestant to Muslim, who carried anti-ga...