BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE 184 per cent import tariff on certain meat products is having such an effect on Carlton and Emerald City supermarkets that the two establishments may not be able to supply Barbadians with the popular seasoned chicken wings from next week. Mananging director Andrew Bynoe to...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES have imposed duties on the importation of lubricating oil from Trinidad and Tobago in another round of trade wars between the Caribbean territories. Industry Minister Anthony Hylton told legislators yesterday that he has exercised his ministerial authority to...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Recently, there have been a number of rash and, in some instances, derogatory letters, describing Jamaica's perceived relationship with Trinidad & Tobago (T&T). Some were whimsical and others simply vacuous. Generally, they demonstrate a lack of understanding regardin...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - I F ALL goes well with the work programmes for two ministerial council meetings this week in Port of Spain, the people of the Caribbean Community should have a good idea of what to expect with top priority issues when the region’s Heads of Government gather in Trinida...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries say they will continue to oppose subsidies being granted to the UK-based Diageo, one of the world’s biggest producers of rum, because of the impact the subsidy is having on rum producers in the Caribbean. Caribbean C...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Last week African business and government leaders met in Cape Town at the World Economic Forum on Africa to assess the impact of its growing wealth on alleviating poverty and to address the issue of transparency. It is well known that Africa’s impressive growth is not sh...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Institute of Archaeology has launched an investigation into the destruction of a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize. Pictures broadcast on a local television network over the weekend showed the near total destruction of the Noh Mul site, which means Big Hil...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - T TAKES just one relatively small hurricane this season to throw our International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement off course. There is no provision for that, no special fund where we can access adequate resources to offset the kind of economic dislocation which results from our na...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Consultations conducted within the Caribbean region have revealed that there are numerous threats to traditional knowledge (TK). Regional Consultant with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Mary Ann Richards says that there is a lack of knowledge about the co...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago should not need the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) to admonish this country about the dangers to good government and to democracy posed by political funding. Miguel Insulza has been the latest high official to mount a bull...