Regional

Castries, St Lucia -- The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission anticipates a very busy year for trade officials. To this end, during 2015 work towards the establishment of a regime for the free circulation of goods…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Photographs of the opposition People's National Movement (PNM) political leader Dr Keith Rowley chipping along the road with a woman on Carnival Tuesday in Trinidad, became the topic of heated discussion on social…

St John’s, Antigua -- Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has written to his St Vincent and the Grenadines counterpart Dr Ralph Gonsalves in his capacity as chairman of LIAT shareholders, requesting that “no further action be…

Nassau, Bahamas -- The Bahamas government will be the majority shareholder in the new company that will provide cellular service to compete with the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), Minister of State for Finance Michael Halkitis…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- The readiness of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to hold the May 11, general and regional elections is being assessed by the United Nations Electoral Needs Assessment Mission (UNENAM). Head of the…

St George’s, Grenada (GIS) -- Grenada’s Housing Minister Delma Thomas says the Chinese housing model may be the country’s solution to the growing problem of limited land space for dwelling purposes. Thomas was speaking to reporters…

Castries, St Lucia -- Qualified citizens resident in Martinique may be able to make use of the new economic space opened-up by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Economic Union, an OECS ambassador says. Saint Lucia’s…

Paris, France (AFP) -- Media freedom suffered a "drastic decline" worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The University of the West Indies chapter of Generation 2000 (G2K), the Mona Campus Youth League (MCYL) on Thursday condemned the Tuesday attack of a female student on the campus. It described the attack on the student…

St John’s, Antigua -- Antigua and Barbuda’s ministry of trade, industry and commerce hosted meetings last Friday, 6 February, as part of a series of public education outreach activities currently being held in Antigua. The outreach is led…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- As part of the Guyana government’s preparations for the oil and gas sector, efforts to engage international partners and countries continue. Last week, minister of natural resources and the environment, Robert…

St George’s, Grenada -- Dr Michael Freudenberg, deputy head of mission of the German embassy in Port-of-Spain with responsibility for Grenada, made a special visit to Grenada from February 4 to February 9. Aside from participating in…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Jamaica Labour Party says it has entrusted party leader Andrew Holness with “the responsibility of arriving at a political solution with the affected party members” regarding a recent Constitutional Court…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- A debt of TT$150,000 owed to Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) director Azad Niamat may have cost him his life. The Express was told that on the day Niamat went missing on January 29 he went to…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) facilitated the planning session for the 2015 work programme and annual general meeting of the Caribbean Network of Service Coalitions last week in Barbados.…