PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean labour ministers meet here on Tuesday in the midst of regional concern that tentative economic growth is not being accompanied by increasing employment opportunities. The recently-released International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Global Employme...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - T&T’s stalled southern Caribbean fast ferry proposal and the regional controversy over T&T’s fuel subsidy for Caribbean Airlines are to be discussed at the Caricom leaders’ 34th summit starting Wednesday in Port-of-Spain. “Those iss...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament says the human bones unearthed under the “Red House” building during initial excavation work undertaken as part of the restoration of the building date back to between 430 AD and 1390 AD. In a statement, the Parliam...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian, Secretary General of Caricom, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has announced that Dominica and St Lucia are expected to join other countries in making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) their final court of appeal. While others—including T&T—...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Representatives of several Caribbean countries will meet here on Tuesday as they seek to ensure that the concerns of the region are articulated at the 2014 Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa next September. The three-day meeting here will det...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Irwin la Rocque is very passionate about the regional integration movement, CARICOM. He has to be. As Secretary General of the 15-member grouping, he defends it against accusation from certain sections of the region that instead of CARICOM, it should be named &l...

GENEVA, CMC - Latin America and Caribbean region has met a number of targets for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including halving the extreme poverty rate, according to a United Nations report released here on Monday. The report noted that the proportion of people in the region ...

TORONTO – Former West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd says Darren Sammy should not have been relieved of his duties as skipper of the regional side for One-Day International matches. Sammy, who has been retained as captain of the Twenty20 and Test teams, was removed as leader of the ODI squ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A reporter, who was dismissed in 2009 for refusing to disclose the source of his information for a story, has been awarded TT$600,000 by the Industrial Court for wrongful dismissal. Darryl Heeralal sued the Trinidad Express after he was dismissed for failing to ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC - The compensation many descendants of Dutch slavery feel is due to them became official after members of the Committee Reparations Slavery Past Suriname deposited a claim at the Dutch embassy here. “We want to discuss the material and immaterial damage,” said ...