Regional

October 29, 2011

Caribbean is open for business, says St Kitts-Nevis PM

Hundreds of business persons attending the Commonwealth Business Forum in Perth, Australia, have been told that the Caribbean region presents opportunities for investment not only in the traditional sectors but in new areas including tourism,…

October 27, 2011

US and OECS establish diplomatic relations

The USA and the OECS established relations at the diplomatic level on Tuesday October 25th 2011. OECS Director General Dr. Len Ishmael accepted Letters of Introduction from the United States Envoy to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States,…

October 27, 2011

Bahamas and Caribbean slowly recovering, says IMF

The Caribbean region, including The Bahamas, is slowly recovering from the global economic crisis…

October 27, 2011

Hurricane Rina now moving northwestward

At 7:00 pm EDT on Wednesday, satellite images and radar data from Belize indicated that the centre of hurricane Rina was located about 150 miles south-southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, and about 140 miles east of Chetumal, Mexico. According to the…

October 27, 2011

Protesters chained in ‘Occupy Half-Way-Tree’ in Jamaica

A small group of Jamaicans, led by Children’s Advocate Betty-Ann Blaine, this morning chained themselves to the median near the clock in Half-Way-Tree square in a protest against “inequities and injustices in the Jamaican society”. Taking their…

October 26, 2011

Hurricane Rina grows in Caribbean

Hurricane Rina has swelled to a Category 2 storm as it sweeps towards…

October 26, 2011

Gadhafi’s friend to the death, Chavez calls Libyan leader ‘a martyr’

It was the year 2000. Standing at attention, a relatively unknown Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, only 18 months after taking office, was positioned right next to one of the world's most-controversial dictators. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi,…

October 26, 2011

Amnesty: Killings by Dominican police ‘alarming’

Police in the Dominican Republic were responsible for an "alarming" 10.5% of the nation's killings last year, Amnesty International said Tuesday, citing government statistics. A report from the human rights organization sharply criticizes the…

October 26, 2011

New Jamaican PM becomes region’s youngest

History was created on Sunday, when 39-year-old Andrew Michael Holness was sworn in as Jamaica’s youngest prime minister. In a 90-minute ceremony presided over by Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen and attended by some 4,000 guests, the country’s…

October 26, 2011

Trinidad and Tobago to launch first drug treatment court in 2012 with OAS support

Trinidad and Tobago will launch the country’s first drug treatment court in 2012, to include technical assistance, training and cooperation from the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States…