A tight budget, public sector reform and the implementation of major projects, are some of the challenges that Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips says Jamaicans will...
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis., Denzil Douglas (Reuters) – St. Kitts and Nevis’ economic citizenship programme was established in 1984, shortly after the country’s...
Jamaica has the Caribbean’s highest murder rate, although the 1,124 murders reported in 2011 were a seven-year low for the country, according to the Caribbean Human...
Grenada Prime Minister., Tillman Thomas Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said he is “deeply concerned” that an unauthorised promise made by immediate past Environment Minister Joseph Gilbert...
After raising mountain of complaints about the ill effects of the no-user-fee policy that was implemented by the former Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) government, the new...
Former Haiti dictator., Jean Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File A judge in Haiti has admonished former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for violating the terms of his conditional release by...
The new Haitian government is placing strong emphasis on aligning its strengths with the needs of international investors. Haitian Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul recently...
Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake, holding ceremonies that...
The billions of dollars in aid that flowed into Haiti after its shattering earthquake were meant to build a new nation with thriving farms, apparel factories,...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitians still have much to do to recover from the 2010 earthquake, President Michel Martelly said Monday, and he conceded to...
Prime Minister Garry Conille announced a series of projects towards education, employment and the environment for the year 2012. His government still faces the challenge of...
Jamaica Prime Minister-designate., Portia Simpson-Miller Portia Simpson-Miller takes the Oath of Office as prime minister of Jamaica in a ceremony at King’s House — the governor...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly A member of a senate commission set up to investigate the nationalities of members of the government found that President Michel Martelly...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly said his government will continue to work on free education for all children and decent housing for...
A press liaison for Haitian President Michel Martelly says a presidential commission is urging the leader to restore the nation’s disbanded army. Vladimir Laguerre of the...
Following on a US Senate Resolution against Antigua and Barbuda introduced on December 8, 10 United States congressmen introduced a Congressional Resolution on December 23 expressing...
2012 promises to be an economically challenging year for the 15 countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), only 3...
Sir Clifford Darling speaks at a previous engagement.Photo/Tim Aylen Sir Clifford Darling, the fourth Bahamian-born Governor-General died at the Princess Margaret Hospital early yesterday morning at...
Haiti is seeing a drop in the number of cholera cases as the country settles into its dry season. Dr. Wendy Lai of Doctors Without Borders...
Press Release: Ministry of the Interior of Haiti (PRNewswire) – Haiti continues to send clear messages that the country is open, wide open, for business. Speaking...
Oprah Winfrey speaks to the press in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. PHOTO/AP / Dieu Nalio Chery Oprah Winfrey’s trip to Haiti included dinner with...
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan started a five-day trip to Haiti on Sunday, arriving just ahead of fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey as they make separate...
As business opportunities in post-earthquake Haiti yield enthusiasm and opportunity, the government commits to passing law to make country more business friendly. The Haitian government plans...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly Nobel laureate Oscar Arias has advised Haitian President Michel Martelly that it would be an “error” to restore the disbanded army, according...
CMC – Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on Thursday ranked Barbados as the least corrupt country in the region. A report released by the...
Dr. Kenny Anthony., incoming Prime Minister of St. Lucia The St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) came storming back into government in yesterday’s general election, five years...
Haitian migrants found in overcrowded boats near The Bahamas have been returned home following two separation operations by the US Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Cutter...
Almost two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, less than half of the US$4.6 billion in pledged aid has been disbursed and political squabbling is threatening...
Paul Martin being led away after his court appearance in Trelawny Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Observer Paul Martin, the Canadian school teacher accused of slashing his wife’s throat...
Resurrecting tourism in a country best known for poverty, political instability and a devastating earthquake might seem an overly optimistic ambition. But bringing back Haiti’s once-thriving...
(Barbados Nation) – Barbados was given a new warning yesterday to get its economic house in order or be faced with a downgrade by Standard & Poor’s....
Haitian lawmakers have a new building where they can pass laws and study the budget. The previous building was severely damaged (pictured), in the 2010 earthquake....
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham opened the first Caribbean HIV Conference this weekend to discuss the multi-faceted issues facing the region’s battle to combat the disease....
(Jamaica Gleaner) The People’s National Party (PNP) has responded to reports that there is doubt over the staging of the political debates ahead of the next...
Haiti’s president said Friday that his government is putting off a controversial plan to restore the country’s disbanded military until a commission can be formed to...
Haiti’s president says a plane carrying 19 officials of his government has made an emergency landing in Cuba. President Michel Martelly says the plane landed safely...
Former journalist and newly appointed Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died while in Canada. He was 51. The office of President Michel Martelly said in...
An adviser in Haiti’s government says a helicopter carrying Prime Minister Garry Conille and two other Cabinet members has made an emergency landing in the hills...
The latest RJR/TVJ Boxill poll has revealed that the ruling Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) are almost tied in a...
(Trinidad Guardian) – The Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has lifted the curfew on land and sea with immediate effect,...
The mile-long stretch of bars and restaurants known as St. James has long been a magnet for all-night revelry, a blur of dancing bodies and blaring...
St. Lucia Prime Minister Stephenson King St. Lucia Prime Minister Stephenson King has announced a general election date of November 28 – the same day of...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Four years after the dual-citizenship drama threatened to collapse the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) government, former Director of Elections Danville Walker says he wants...
(Barbados Nation) – Barbados will not be dictated to by Britain or any other when it comes to homosexuality laws, says Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite. He...
Haiti’s struggle to rebuild homes for hundreds of thousands of quake victims may be giving the impoverished nation something it has never had: loans to help...
U.S. regulators have fined Caribbean Airlines for allegedly wrongly limiting compensation that passengers received after their baggage was delayed, lost or damaged. The U.S. Transportation Department...
Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP), summoned its National Campaign Committee to an emergency meeting at the PNP headquarters, Thursday. It is highly likely that the new...
(Reuters) – Haiti is wooing Asian manufacturers, and its own diaspora, to inject investments and funds into the economy and create jobs to drive a recovery...
The Haitian military was disbanded over human rights abuses in 1995 by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide after years of political turmoil, making Haiti one of a handful...
Jamaica’s new prime minister appointed his government on Tuesday, leaving nearly all ministries unchanged while making relatively minor shifts that he said would accelerate administrative and...
Jamaica’s new prime minister has left two prominent ministries unchanged and says he will announce the rest of his Cabinet later in the week. Andrew Holness...
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...
The mandate is ending for a Haiti reconstruction panel that was set up to coordinate donor aid after last year’s earthquake. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission’s...
The spotlight will today be focused on the lawns of King's House, the governor general's official residence and the scenic setting where Andrew Holness is set...
The outgoing Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding (pictured), will address the nation tonight at 8.00pm local time on both radio and television stations. It is...
(Caribbean360) The port of Bridgetown in Barbados has been recognized as being the safest in the Caribbean. This is as a result of the high level...
Garry Conille (pictured), has been sworn in as Haiti’s new Prime Minister along with 16 cabinet ministers. The new government takes office five months after Michel...
Andrew Holness (pictured), is the presumed next prime minister of Jamaica. He will have to seek his own mandate if he is to have the moral...
Education minister, Andrew Holness is on track to becoming the next Prime Minister of Jamaica, should he remain unopposed on October 19. Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
The Wigton Windfarm Ltd. (Wigton) will transform its resource center into a high-tech training facility for renewable energy, with the aim of developing local capacity and...
The UN security council will decide imminently whether or not to renew the mandate of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), established in 2004,...
The Jamaica Labor Party‘s (JLP) powerful Area Council has endorsed Andrew Holness (pictured), for the postion of party leader and prime minister of Jamaica. Holness accepted...
Political analysts in Jamaica, are suggesting that there could be an early general election, – possibly before the 2012 London Olympics and next year’s observation of...
Andrew Holness (pictured), will be brought into discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team. Holness, now has the backing of a majority of government members...
A 2010 United Nations report cited Jamaica as having had the highest homicide rate in the English-speaking Caribbean, however the country has reported a 40 percent...
Barbados and other Caribbean nations have endured the loss of their highly skilled and educated labor to the United States, Canada and other developed nations in...
The Jamaica government has moved to dispel reports that outgoing Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured), could move up his timetable to quit as leader of the...
Dr. Garry Conille (pictured), the new Haitian Prime Minister, has been working behind the scenes to rebuild a broken, quake-ravaged nation. Now, as the man in...
A pilot project to fight gang violence and other activities is to be rolled out in Belize, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago....
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly (pictured), says the government is boosting student enrollment this year by putting more than 700,000 youths into classrooms. The leader says that...
Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment (LIME) which delivers Internet and mobile services in 14 Caribbean countries, will enter the video market initially in Jamaica and Barbados by...
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar was discharged from the private St. Clair Medical Center on Friday, two days after she was admitted to the institution complaining...
The Information Minister said transition is among issues to be outlined.
Jamaica’s Finance Minister Audley Shaw said Greece should follow the example of the Caribbean nation and restructure the national debt as a first step toward solving...
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar was rushed to hospital today after complaining of feeling unwell. A brief statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister...
Haiti’s president (pictured), is moving forward with a controversial campaign pledge to restore the country’s disbanded military with an initial force of 3,500 soldiers, according to...
St. Lucia’s housing minister on Monday resigned from his Cabinet post shortly after disclosing that the U.S. State Department had revoked his diplomatic and visitor visas....
The Law Association and Transparency Institute say police officers need to be held to a higher level of accountability.
The Governor cites internal security risks as the reason for his decision.
Several dozen protesters have barged into a press conference in Haiti where Amnesty International released a report on the case against former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (pictured)....
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) welcomes China Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu (left) to Jamaica on his arrival – Photo by Barrington Flemming China’s vice premier and...
Uruguayan peacekeepers A military judge ordered five Uruguayan sailors accused of sexually abusing a young Haitian man jailed until a tribunal decides whether to dishonorably discharge...
Usain Bolt (left) congratulates his compatriot Yohan Blake Yohan Blake ran the second-fastest 200m of all time at the Brussels Diamond League meeting on Friday, upstaging...
Teachers, nurses, artisans and household workers will be included under amendments to the CARICOM Free Movement of Skilled Persons Act.
The outstanding issues that have stalled the country's loan arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be ironed out before the end of the year.This...
The conference is expected to attract 300 Caribbean and international renewable energy stakeholders.
Eleven new areas and the maritime boundary are now included.
Sept. 14, marks four months in office for Haitian President Michel Martelly (pictured). It is now more than 120 days since he was elected, and yet...
Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago have extended a state of emergency by three months, citing continued security concerns since the measure was first imposed last month...
Tropical depression fourteen close to tropical storm strength according to latest National Hurricane Centre report.
Tropical depression could be forming 725 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
President Michel Martelly (pictured),has picked physician Garry Conille to be his prime minister, a leading Haitian legislator said, as Martelly seeks to end an impasse with...
Ahead of the new school year, which begins tomorrow, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to solve the...
Barbados’ new Chief Justice Marston Gibson (pictured), wants to observe first, before making any pronouncements on how he plans to approach his new job. Shortly after...
Hurricane Katia expected to become a major hurricane by the weekend according to the latest National Hurricane Centre (NHC) report.
Government will also reduce the curfew hours to give relief to businesses across the island.
Sir Dennis Byron will take the oath in a few days.
wo people were killed when Hurricane Irene passed off the north coast of Haiti, drenching the island with heavy rains that flooded houses, cut roads, unleashed...
The Guyana Government says societies can’t be held ransom by criminals.
The Prime Minister announces the limited state of emergency in hotspots to fight crime.
Caribbean nationals, including Jamaicans who are illegal immigrants living in the United States (US), are to benefit from a new immigration policy by the Obama administration...
Irwin LaRocque pledges to fuel hope in regional integration as he takes up the post of new CARICOM Secretary General.
Dominican Irwin LaRocque takes up the job as the seventh Secretary General of the regional grouping.
But government seeks to assure that law and order will be maintained with soldiers drafted to keep people safe.
A Caribbean Airlines plane, carrying the same flight number as the one that crash landed in Guyana a week ago, has been grounded A Caribbean Airlines...
It has now been four months since the conclusion of the two-round presidential and legislative national election in Haiti. The presidential winner, Michel Martelly (pictured), has...
The man chosen to replace Sir Edwin Carrington as CARICOM Secretary General will begin his work next week.
The tremor was a moderate one that was felt in at least two other Caribbean islands.
Government plans to double the number of jobs for Jamaicans in the information and communications technology sector.
Joel “Big Bird” Garner (pictured), has been re-elected as president of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA). He was re-elected tonight securing 148 votes, way clear of...
The Jamaican official says he wants to investigate whether it was a legitimate move by the government to scrap the industry altogether.
Heavy rains continue as the storm continues to take aim at Hispaniola.
Following the latest murders in Barbados – the killing of 79-year-old retired engineer Arthur Chaderton and his 42-year-old son-in-law, Metamara Stock, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite (pictured),...
The Senate gives the thumb down to yet another nominee that President Michel Martelly put forward for prime minister.
DESPITE SOME adverse findings, the commissions set up by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) to investigate and clear candidates for...
MINISTER OF Youth, Sports and Culture Olivia Grange, has urged Jamaicans to use the period of Independence to renew their commitment to the country.Grange was speaking...
Less than 48 hours after Caribbean Airlines celebrated the newest Boeing 737-800 to its fleet, their happiness turned to tragedy with the crash of one of...
Several people, including the pilot, have been injured but there are no fatalities.
The agreements the OAS has signed with one Caribbean country will focus on public security for the wider region.
THE BAHAMAS has banned the export of scrap metal for at least three months as copper theft cases continue to increase.The government said in a statement...
Irwin LaRocque knows the next three years will not be easy for him and the Caribbean regional integration movement.
ACCUSING THE People's National Party (PNP) of carrying out a campaign to derail Chinese investments amounting to more than US$1 billion in Jamaica, the Bruce Golding-led...
The US$90 million in grants will provide support for jobs and investment in northern region and expansion of access to electricity.
President Michel Martelly's housing and education plans get backing from the regional grouping.
MEMBERS OF the public are being urged to advise the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) of any instance in which persons are detained by the police...
BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann:"CRIME IS under control in Brown's Town these days.
Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is named the region’s top civil servant, replacing Sir Edwin Carrington who left the post at the end of last year.
Low-budget carrier REDjet yesterday opened bookings for flights in and out of Trinidad and Tobago with 37,000 flights at US$9.99, in time for people from the...
Although making it clear she won’t be negotiating with the unions who want more money for public workers, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar agrees to meet...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is urging Jamaicans to be patient even as they push for repairs to the infrastructure in their communities."I understand the anguish that...
A Parliamentary Committee has been set up to examine the proposals that are supposed to take effect next January.
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen said young men must be taught character traits such as responsibility, perseverance, discipline, honesty, courage, fairness, respect, integrity, citizenship and patriotism....
Illegal immigrants in Grenada get an extra month to regularize their status.
The Auditor General reports poor management and political interference in the government’s procurement practices.
The two will sign an enhanced Bilateral Cooperation Agreement which covers a wide range of areas.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday announced that the country's new attorney general, Ransford Braham, will take up office on August 8. Braham, who has long been...
The Premier says there's a bright and encouraging likelihood of growth within the Islands' economy for this year and beyond.
UWI Cave Hill and BioJet International initiate a research and commercial biofuels partnership.
Regional leaders say they've shortlisted five candidates and will name a replacement for Sir Edwin Carrington soon.
THE PERSON who will fill the post of attorney general has been selected and will be named this week, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said."I have...
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General is the biggest casualty.
Economic recovery in the Caribbean from the global financial crisis is lagging, says Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams. This most recent slide, he observed, was part...
The United Nations adds Bridgetown, including the historic Garrison Savannah, to the list, the first every entry for Barbados.
Five of the country's opposition parties have decided to join forces to contest the upcoming general elections.
The National Security Council says the plan seeks to reduce the risk of young people turning to a life of crime and the high rates of...
THE US Department of State yesterday announced the creation of the Caribbean IdEA Marketplace (CIM), partnering with Scotiabank, the bank with the largest commercial footprint in...
FirstCaribbean International Bank has announced that it will be branded under the CIBC banner by adopting the co-branding ‘CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank.’ FirstCaribbean’s parent company, CIBC,...
MOST JAMAICANS seem to approve of the manner in which attorneys-at-law K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson treated Prime Minister Bruce Golding while he was on the...
