Regional

November 27, 2011

Bobby Morris is new CARICOM ambassador

BARBADOS will have a new Ambassador to CARICOM come December 1. He is noted historian, educator and veteran trade unionist, the Hon. Robert “Bobby” Morris. Formerly the Deputy General Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union, 64-year old Mr.…

November 27, 2011

Cuban cigar roller presented with Guinness world record certificate

Cuban cigar roller Jose Cautelar Cairo (Cueto), who rolled an 81.8-meter (268 ft)-long cigar last May, was presented in Havana with the official certificate that validates his fifth Guinness World Record by Dianna Melrose, ambassador of the…

November 27, 2011

Consultation on youth gangs and violence heads to Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago will today host a national consultation on youth gangs and gang violence. The meeting, funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), brings together approximately 60 stakeholders drawn primarily from the…

November 25, 2011

Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar in ‘security threat’

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says police have thwarted a plot to…

November 25, 2011

Sex workers say: ‘Tax Us’

It has been called the oldest profession in the world and now head of the Caribbean Association of Sex Workers, Miriam Edwards, says sex workers throughout the region would be willing to pay taxes if respective governments started recognising…

November 25, 2011

Britain and Cayman Islands sign new fiscal responsibility agreement

Britain’s Foreign Office Minister for the Overseas Territories, Henry Bellingham, and McKeeva Bush, premier of the Cayman Islands, signed a framework for fiscal responsibility for the Cayman Islands on Wednesday in London. The framework records…

November 25, 2011

Bahamas PM says Caribbean will follow demands from France

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham believes that Caribbean countries named by France as tax havens, will have no choice but to comply with the measures outlined by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF). “The reality is...the developed…

November 25, 2011

Haiti gets $50 million IDB grant for education

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced today the approval of a US$50 million grant to support the education reform Haiti launched in 2010, seeking to expand access to free, quality education for all Haitian children. “The IDB has…

November 24, 2011

CARICOM trade ministers move towards charting a new path

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) trade ministers have begun discussions on how to strategically…

November 24, 2011

Manuel Noriega: French court backs his return to Panama

A French court has granted a request by Panama to send Manuel Noriega back home, where he is wanted for crimes committed during his 1983-1989 rule. The former Panamanian military leader is currently serving a prison sentence in France for money…