April 21, 2012
Guyana latest CARICOM country to sign ILO Decent Work project
Guyana has become the 10th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to sign the International Labour Organization-supported Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP). A statement from the Trinidad-based ILO Office for the Caribbean, said Georgetown, which…
April 21, 2012
The OAS will help the Dominican Government control gun smuggling
The Organization of American States (OAS) will help the Dominican Government’s ability to control gun smuggling, through the program “Promotion of Firearms Marking in Latin America and the Caribbean” announced Friday. “The traffic of firearms is one…
April 21, 2012
Haiti: An advisor to President Martelly accused of murder
The family members of Octanol Dérissaint, a resident of the border area of Fond Parisien (west), have accused an advisor to President Michel Martelly, Calixte Valentin, of having murdered Wednesday night that 32 year old salesman during an…
April 20, 2012
Colombia scandal claims three more Secret Service jobs
The US Secret Service has said three more employees are resigning over the prostitution scandal that overshadowed a summit in Colombia last weekend. Supervisors David Chaney and Greg Stokes are among three agents already leaving the elite agency in…
April 16, 2012
Trinidad and Tobago signs loan agreement with Andean Development Bank
Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar began her official engagements at the Sixth Summit of the Americas on Sunday afternoon with the signing of an agreement for her country to become a special member country of the…
April 16, 2012
Local contracts surpass $110 million at Bahamas megaresort
Bahamian companies have been awarded more than $110 million in contracts since the multi-billion dollar Baha Mar resort broke ground just over one year ago – and more work is on the way. Local labour will be a "major focus" during the…
April 16, 2012
US Coast Guard makes nearly two-ton Caribbean coke bust
The United States Coast Guard said on Saturday that it captured a speedboat laden with US $43 million worth of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard said it seized 3,532 pounds of the drug, along with four suspected drug smugglers. It did…
April 16, 2012
Call for unity at opening of Summit of the Americas
The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, called for the unity of the countries of the hemisphere at the inauguration of the Sixth Summit of the Americas, saying “a united Americas is an achievable…
April 15, 2012
Obama: ‘Drug legalisation not the answer to drug war’
US President Barack Obama has said that legalising drugs is not the answer to the problems caused by the trafficking of illegal narcotics in the Americas. Mr Obama told a gathering of leading executives in Colombia ahead of the Summit of the…
April 15, 2012
Cardi to revive Haiti’s agricultural sector
The Caribbean Agriculture and Research Development Institute (Cardi), through donor funding from Caricom, Australia, the Common Fund for Commodities and the European Union, has pledged to resuscitate Haiti’s struggling agriculture sector. The…