GEORGETOWN, Guyana - When, in January of this year, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to the British people on the issue of the country’s membership of the European Union, he promised that following the next parliamentary general elections due in mid-2015, the electorate would have an opportu...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former High Court judge Herbert Volney Tuesday called for the removal of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan from office, while police investigate allegations contained in emails purporting to show members of the coalition People’s Partnership government involv...

PARIS, CMC – The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RWB) Tuesday said it hopes that the authorities will soon disclose the reasons behind the murder of radio journalist Pierre-Richard Alexandre, who was shot last weekend. A correspondent for the national radio station Radio Kiskeya and th...

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Edna Moyle, a founding member of the main opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) died Tuesday, less than 24 hours before voters in this British Overseas Territory go to the polls to elect a new government. Relatives said that the former Speaker...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and new Chinese Ambassador Huang Xingyuan met on Monday to hold discussions on energy and trade relations between Trinidad and Tobago and China, a Ministry release said yesterday. Trinidad and Tobago exported five cargoes of liquefied natura...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), David Messiah is calling on trade unions within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to help establish a labour market information system for the economic union of the sub-region. Messiah told the 17th ...

BRADES, Montserrat, CMC - Montserrat has received an improved rating following the end of the final review of the Strategic Growth Programme from Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID). But London has also indicated that Montserrat has work to do in several key areas includi...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - British Prime Minister David Cameron has put pressure on Bermuda and other British Overseas Territories (OTs) to "take the lead" on tax information exchange and beneficial ownership. Cameron on Monday wrote to Bermuda, along with the rest of Britain's OTs and Crown depen...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – An international investment-rating agency has suggested that Caribbean territories should devalue the Eastern Caribbean currency or adopt the US dollar in an effort to address what it deems to be a “debt crisis” in the region. In a recently published repo...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) says 12 babies have died during the month so far and it has launched an investigation to determine whether the deaths were due to an infection outbreak. In a statement, the hospital said that the investigation is to “dete...