CASTRIES, St.Lucia, CMC- The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has formally agreed to help St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as both countries continue to recover from devastation caused by torrential rains in December. During recent missions to St Lucia and St Vincent and the Gren...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders meet here next week for their inter-sessional summit with Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves confirming that there is “quite a long” agenda for the two-day meeting. Gonsalves, who is also the chairman of the 15-mem...

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, FEBRUARY 13TH 2014 (CUOPM) - Renewable energy, agriculture, light manufacturing, tourism and matters related to aid were among issues discussed by St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas and Australia’s High Commissioner, His Excellency Ro...

I am honoured to be here at the CARICOM headquarters in Guyana, and doubly so to chair this, the 33rd meeting of the Community Council of Ministers. I am especially grateful for the presence of so many esteemed Ministers of Foreign Affairs at this meeting. While travel between and among CARICOM stat...

The current situation in DR • The Dominican Constitution up to 2010 recognised in principle, that in keeping with the legal principle of jus solis “all persons born in the territory of the  Dominican Republic” are Dominican citizens. However, a loophole allowed the authorit...

cooperation KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Several areas for technical cooperation between Argentina and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were identified when Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to that South American nation earlier this month. Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to t...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines has reiterated its support for Taiwan to be recognised by various international agencies saying the Asian country has done much to improve the socio-economic well being of people in developing countries. Foreign Affairs Minister Cam...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - A conservation group says it has secured fund to revive an area in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) where a failed marina project has devastated the marine ecosystem. The project in Union Island, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was abandoned almost 20 years ago and...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Opposition Leader, Arnhim Eustace, says he will contest the ruling of the Labour Department ordering him to pay his former secretary, Rishatha Nicholls, EC$16,199.99 (One EC dollar – US$0.37 cents) in severance pay by October 18. “We will appeal that ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC -- Chair of LIAT’s shareholder governments, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says he does not know why Ian Brunton resigned as the airline’s chief executive officer after just one year on the job. LIAT’s board of directors announced late September tha...