Regional

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago economy is now projected to grow by 1.5 per cent this year as against earlier predictions of 2.5 per cent, the Central Bank has said. It said that the local economy had grown by 1.3…

(Barbados) - A Caribbean hotelier has issued a call for strengthening the hotel sector's ties to local food producers. Such local linkages asserted Barbadian hotelier Ralph Taylor generate several benefits: "First, tourists want to savor…

Bridgetown, Barbados --The Board of Directors of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank has announced the appointment of Mr. David Ritch as its new non-executive Chairman. The appointment took effect from 13th December 2013. An…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has given Barbados an assurance that the government will not “sit down and by the elegant flourish of a pen or pencil throw people’s lives into disorder”. Stuart’s comments came…

Paramaribo, Suriname -- There has been no official word yet from the Suriname government in response to the revelation that Guyana has granted permission for a geological and geographical survey (PGGS) that includes a clause guaranting a…

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) will next month celebrate its 25th anniversary amidst a call for the region to be promoted as a single destination. CTO Chairman, Beverly Nicholson Doty,…

Kingston, Jamaica — There was pandemonium across the Corporate Area Tuesday night as Jamaicans celebrated widely following Tessanne Chin’s victory in The Voice. Chin defeated her strongest rivals Jacquie Lee and Will Champlin to capture…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Government on Tuesday tabled the White Paper on “the Reform of the Public Sector Pension System”. The policy outlined in the White Paper represents a position that accords with some aspects of the report that was…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Tuesday said that for the first time, locally-acquired cases of chikungunya have been detected in the region. CARPHA said it had recently received…

SANDREA Falconer, the minister with responsibility for information, says she intends to lobby for an increase in the age of consent as one of the measures to counteract the country's high rate of teenage pregnancy, one of the highest in the…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Tessanne Chin is again in the number one spot on the USA's iTunes top 100 songs chart. Her performance of Whitney Houston's ‘I have nothing’ on The Voice Monday night sits atop the hugely competitive chart. In fact,…

Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) -- Jamaica’s House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation to combat the establishment of unlawful financial organisations commonly known as Ponzi or pyramid schemes. Minister of finance and planning, Dr…

Port Of Spain, Trinidad -- UK resident Joromie Lewis, 33, has died after reportedly drinking a pear drink manufactured in Trinidad. UK police sources said the drink contained a lethal amount of cocaine. Lewis, of Gosport, Hampshire, fell…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in collaboration with the government of Barbados convened a meeting on the financial services sector in CARIFORUM on Monday. The meeting of ministers with…

Nassau, Bahamas -- Minister of Agriculture Alfred Gray said on Tuesday he wants public hangings in The Bahamas. Gray also said the invasion of the home of acting prime minister Philip Brave Davis shows that the country’s leaders need…