The St. Lucia government says it is anticipating investment in the tourism industry to surpass EC$320 million as a result of negotiations with various investors during the first 8 months of this year.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has restated its wholehearted support for Belize’s stance on its sovereignty as the country celebrates 37 years of independence.
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque in a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Dean Barrow noted that the theme of the celebrations, “Belize Da Fi Wi – Now and Forever 8867!”, highlights the staunch position of Belizeans that their country unequivocally belongs to them, a position the Caribbean Community wholeheartedly supports.
WASHINGTON/LUHANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian agents and special forces yesterday of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to prepare for military action as it had in Crimea.
Armed pro-Moscow protesters were still occupying Ukrainian government buildings in two cities in the largely Russian-speaking east yesterday, although police ended a third occupation in a lightning night-time operation.
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine/ BRUSSELS, (Reuters) - Crimea’s parliament voted yesterday to join Russia, and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum in 10 days, in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian region that drew a sharp riposte from U.S. President Barack Obama. Obama ordered sanctions on those responsible for Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine, including bans on travel to the United States and freezing of their U.S. assets.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia hopes the U.N. Security Council will agree a resolution this week to support a deal for Syria to abandon its chemical arms, but talks with the United States have been rocky, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday.
Speaking before negotiations expected on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov reiterated Russia's opposition to any threat of military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other world leaders yesterday to decide against launching military strikes in Syria, which many of them fear would hurt the global economy and push up oil prices.
At a summit of the Group of 20 (G20) developed and developing economies in St. Petersburg, Putin greeted Obama with a thin smile and a businesslike handshake, a clear sign of the strains between them over how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Moscow, Russia: Bob Marley hits blaring throughout the Luzhniki Stadium; Russians walking around in the black, green, and gold of the Jamaican flag; every Jamaican in Moscow an instant hit, the centre of attention. These are the inroads that Jamaica's early three-medal performance at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics have made on the conservative Russian public, and while happy with the team's medal bounty so far, Jamaica's technical leader, Maurice Wilson, is warning that nothing should be taken for granted going forward.
MOSCOW, Russia: The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, is looking to go even faster in Moscow, Russia.
A few hours after stepping off a plane at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport ahead of the IAAF World Champion-ships, the double Olympic champion and world record holder wasted no time in making his ambitions clear - establishing world records and regaining of the World 100m title he lost two years ago in Daegu, South Korea.
MOSCOW — The greatest media event of the Cold War occurred on July 12, 2013. By all accounts, the scene at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport on Friday afternoon was like nothing those present had ever seen — and most were no strangers to media madness. One witness said she had feared she might be torn apart by the journalists. Her concerns were not baseless: Though there apparently were no human casualties, the mob of reporters did break an escalator.
MOSCOW — A leak of details about offshore bank accounts belonging to Russian businesspeople and the wife of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov threatens to embarrass President Vladimir Putin, who has vowed to crack down on the use of tax havens.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a network of 160 journalists around the world, has started releasing its findings from a 15-month investigation into offshore money.