BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean fisheries ministers are meeting in Barbados on Friday to discuss the work of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM). “This is a very important meeting in terms of forging a new strategic direction for the fisheries sector,” said CRFM Exec...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – US Vice President Joe Biden assured that the 10-year old online gaming dispute between Antigua & Barbuda and the United States is on the desk of President Barack Obama. That report came from Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer who met with Biden at a Caricom meeting in Trinidad this ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana is reportedly examining a proposal to set up a PetroCaribe Economic Zone (PEZ), made by Venezuela at the PetroCaribe summit held earlier this month in Caracas and attended by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds. According to Venezuelan Oil and Mining Minister Rafael Ramírez, this...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The European Union has provided more than Euro 23 million (One Euro =US$1.29 cents) in funding projects in the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) since March last year. Newly appointed European Union (EU) ambassador to the OECS, Mikael Barfod, say...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler has expressed concern that the economic development of Barbados and other small open economies has been used as a “bludgeoning instrument” against them when it comes to concessional financing from entities like the World Bank and preferential...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Third Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Annual Retreat of Caribbean Civil Society Consultative Groups (ConSoC) is ending here on Friday with Barbados urging the Washington-based financial institution to create new, interesting, innovative and adaptable strategies ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica plans to set up a central authority led by the central bank to report on the financial activities of US taxpayers to their government, which has been on a three-year campaign to track down tax cheats. Its the latest move by the Jamaican Government to assist local institu...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The official visit to T&T by China’s new head of state President Xi Jingping has generated different levels of expectation among Caricom member states. For the countries that have maintained strong diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China, the ant...

UN efforts to tackle cholera in Haiti are "almost non-existent", a charity says, as the world body faces court action for inadvertently starting a cholera epidemic in the country. Late last year, the UN launched a $2.2bn-appeal (£1.5bn) to improve water supplies in Haiti. But Medecins Sans F...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says he has requested a 90-minute meeting with his Trinidadian counterpart, Kamla Persad Bissessar, next month to discuss the Caribbean Air Navigation and Advisory Services (CANAS) and regional airline, LIAT. Gonsalves said when ...