BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Estimates debate has taken pride of place during this week as the Lower House has debated the economy against the backdrop of the Minister of Finance’s presentation to the House. Perhaps the most important development has been the announcement by the Finance Minister...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ECONOMIC MADNESS! That’s how economics Professor Michael Howard has described Government’s proposed $600 million economic stimulus, warning that the country simply cannot afford it. And he has suggested that given the “weakness of our productive sectors, ou...

NASSAU, The Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas has recorded a decrease in serious crimes since the start of the year. This includes a 24 per cent decrease in the number of murders “despite the recent reports of murders that we have heard about.” There has also been a 16 per cent drop in C...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC -A police officer accused of conducting a cavity search on Jamaican Shanique Myrie vehemently denied the allegation as she took the stand before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday. As the Barbados leg of the case wrapped up after four days of testimony, Const...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE CARIBBEAN’S PREOCCUPATION with “leisure, pleasure and nice time” is hampering its productivity and progression, says Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves. Addressing the Caribbean Export Development Agency’s Exporters&...

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands, Mar. 21, CMC – Former Premier of the Cayman Islands, McKeeva Bush has reiterated his innocence after being formally charged with two counts of misconduct on Wednesday. “I have done nothing illegal, and will defend every one of these charges. As I’ve sta...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Caribbean nations are participating in a full-scale tsunami alert exercise organized by the United Nations to test their reaction to a possible disaster. The exercise organized under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UN Educational, Sc...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Haiti’s President and CARICOM Chairman Michel Martelly says his country is open for business. His declaration came on Thursday at a news briefing at the CARICOM Secretariat at Lilliendaal, East Coast Demerara. Martelly said they were looking to bring jobs into the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's most prominent political party said yesterday it will try again to run candidates in upcoming legislative elections after being banned in the two most recent votes. Maryse Narcisse, a spokeswoman for the political party of former President Jean-Bertran...

In the past few weeks there has been a lot of speculation in the Caricom and regional media about whether the PetroCaribe programme will survive without President Hugo Chávez. The informal consensus is that the programme will not be terminated abruptly under the administration of acting Pres...