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The Ministry of Natural Resources says it is “cautiously optimistic” after the Donald Trump administration said it was ready to remove the sanctions on the Russian-owned and world’s second-largest aluminium company RUSAL, which is the…

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved funding for a project which will see 30,500 existing street lights replaced with energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. The project is expected to reduce the cost of street…

Copa Airlines, which commenced twice weekly service to Guyana in 2015, and expanded that to four flights a week a year ago, on Thursday announced an additional flight to Guyana on Fridays, bringing the total number of flights to five per…

Thirty-eight families from the Petite Savanne community in Dominica on Friday received the keys to brand new homes in the Bellevue Chopin housing development compliments of the government and financed by the island’s citizenship by…

A report on the Fly Jamaica crash landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early last month has been presented to the Guyana Cabinet by Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson. Minister of State Joseph Harmon,…

President David Granger is scheduled to return to Cuba tomorrow for further medical intervention, after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in the Spanish-speaking nation last month. Minister of State Joseph Harmon made the…

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will formally launch a commission to study violence in Jamaica early next year, and he’ll be expecting that commission to make recommendations to Government about what can be done to create a more…

Scotiabank is shutting shop in parts of the Caribbean, entering an agreement with a Trinidad-based leading financial group to take over its banking operations in nine “non-core markets” in the region. It was announced today that, subject…

With the final closure of Petrotrin slated for month-end, thousands of pensionable employees still face questions about the security of their retirement funds. The state-owned oil and gas company has over 5,000 employees and reports are…

The economy of St Vincent and the Grenadines is making a full turnaround boosted by increased tourism arrivals according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a statement issued on November 21 after the conclusion of their most…

Barbados will harmonize its domestic and international corporation tax regimes, by December 31, 2018, slashing the tax burden for some local companies by up to 29 per cent. Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced in the Barbados Parliament…

Hundreds of residents gathered on Wednesday for a march through downtown Nassau that ended with a public protest in Parliament Square, primarily over a rise in electricity prices in The Bahamas, along with a few other matters of public…

Representatives of Cuba and the European Union (EU) spoke last Monday about unilateral coercive measures, in the first round of the dialogue on this subject, held in Brussels, the Belgian capital. According to a diplomatic note, an…

On November 16, 2018, the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2018 Article IV consultation with Suriname. Suriname’s economy has stabilized and is expected to further improve. Real GDP grew by 1.7…

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is…