US efforts to help rebuild Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake have been plagued by poor planning, delays and mistaken cost estimates that have forced many projects to be scaled back, the US' Government Accountability Office (GAO) has concluded in a recently-released report. Of the $US65...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the completion of the exchange of the “super bond” for new United States denominated bonds has brought “substantial cash-flow relief” to Belize. The IMF, which recently concluded a review of the country’...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – China is providing more than EC$18 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) to Dominica for a number of community-based projects and the construction of a new hospital in the capital. “This assistance is being granted to us by China at a very difficult time for al...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Belize will host the first ever first ever Intra-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) Programme Regional Technical Meeting (RTM) later this month. The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) said the main objec...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Outgoing Director General of the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) Directorate, Ivan Ogando Lora, says European countries have not lived up to their promise of assisting regional countries in implementing measures contained in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed...

KINGTSOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says recent talks with the Trinidad and Tobago government to address the issue of the fuel subsidy given to the Port of Spain-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) have failed to resolve the matter. Gonsalves is chairman of the regiona...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 16, CMC – The 16th Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Japan Consultation began here on Tuesday with the Asian country signalling its intention to further deepen relations with the 15-member grouping. Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Ambassador A...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Perhaps we can now get down to a serious, coherent and fact-based analysis of Jamaica's trade relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its membership in the Community. Up to now, that debate has been characterised largely by emotive rants, aimed primarily at Trini...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says regional integration is key to development, as delegates discussed the medium-term challenges and the shaping of a post-2015 development agenda in the Caribbean. During the Sixteenth Meeting of the Mo...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - It seems worthwhile to return once again, editorially, to the subject of the recent CARICOM Heads of Government conference held in Trinidad and Tobago earlier this month. Most commentaries suggest a certain pessimism about the outcome of the meeting, and there has been no substa...