Caribbean

The St. Lucia Labour Party came storming back into government in Monday’s general election, five years after it was swept aside by the United Workers Party.

WASHINGTON, CMC – A United States State Department official has warned that pressure from the US and Mexican law enforcement could make the Caribbean a drug trafficking hub again.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC):The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced yesterday the approval of a US$50-million grant to support the education reform Haiti launched in 2010, seeking to expand access to free, quality education for all Haitian...

CASTRIES (CMC):The St Lucia Government yesterday welcomed elections monitors from the Organisation of American States (OAS), CARICOM and the Commonwealth Secretariat who arrived in the country this week ahead of the November 28 poll....

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security adviser Gary Griffith has confirmed that law enforcement authorities have uncovered a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and three senior

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham believes that Caribbean countries named by France as tax havens, will have no choice but to comply with the measures outlined by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Fo

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean economists were meeting here on Tuesday amid a call for them to re-think the measures and practices used in the past to provide guidance to police makers in the r

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC - The Trinidad and Tobago based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) will begin operating a service between Grenada and Canada in December, Tourism Minister Peter David announced Tuesda

Tourism Minister Allen Chastanet says the Barbados government has withdrawn REDjet’s permission to fly the Barbados-St. Lucia route.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, Monday expressed concern at the incident along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of at least two people.

BASSETERRE (CMC): Caribbean Community Chairman Dr Denzil Douglas has told the new premier of the British Virgin Islands, Dr D.Orlando Smith...

The Trinidad and Tobago government says it intends to create 20,000 new jobs mainly within low income and underprivileged communities, as it seeks to continue the battle against criminal elements in t