GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 4, CMC - Former Education Minister Rev.Dale Bisnauth died on Wednesday following a heart attack. Bisnauth, 76, who was appointed Education Minister in 1992 also served as Minister of Labour, Human Services and Social Security. Up until the time his passing he was the Chai...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Fewer, but more severe hurricanes, are predicted in the first major forecasts for the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season. ImpactWeather has predicted this year could see fewer storms developing into hurricane strength, but more hurricanes intensifying to category 3 or h...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Seven hundred and thirty-one local BAICO policyholders are slated to receive monies they have been awaiting for four years, in Phase II of the collapsed companies payouts. Local judicial manager for the defunct company, Cleveland Seaforth, said the governments of the...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-A planned protest march by Civil Servants failed to materialise on Thursday, as organisers were not granted Police permission to take to the streets. Acting Police Commissioner Errol Alexander said in planning their march the Civil Service Association did not conform with t...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The islandwide protest by doctors in the public health sector has stemmed from an impending reclassification exercise to be undertaken during the 2013/2014 financial year. Health Minister, Dr. Fenton Ferguson who made this disclosure in Parliament on Thursday afternoon said...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Ahead of Thursday’s presentation of the 2013/2013 Budget Debate, a local financial analyst is warning of major challenges on the horizon . With the Budget being tabled against the background of a not yet signed deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), financial...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Most government ministries and departments will have to survive with less money this fiscal year as Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has kept his word and dramatically tightened the Government's spending plans. Phillips yesterday tabled a spending plan for the 2013-2014 fi...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Governor General Sir Patrick Allen says the divestment of Public Sector assets and a major infrastructural project will be some of the areas of focus by the Portia Simpson Miller administration in this legislative year. “Through a managed privatisation process, t...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - According to a recent international study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), teachers are giving girls higher marks than boys in school-based assessments, not simply because they are brighter but because they are being rewarded for suc...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will move to install emergency lights at the Mayaguana airport after an aircraft crashed into a vehicle killing three people on Thursday. “As a result of this terrible turn of event the Ministry of Transport is now intervening to pro...