Caribbean

Bermuda's fleet of buses are expected back in service today after the powerful Bermuda Industrial Union said it had agreed to the two-day industrial action going to arbitration.

Bermuda's fleet of buses will be back in service on Saturday after the powerful Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) said it had agreed to the two-day industrial action going to arbitration.

The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) Wednesday announced plans to spend an estimated US$78 million under a project to rebuild part of the capital damaged by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 people and left more than

Opposition Leader Owen Arthur Wednesday described the BDS$3.3 billion (US$ (US$1.65 billion) national budget as “an exercise of nothingness”, and accused the Barbados government of having no clear strategy for development.

The regional cement manufacturer, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), Wednesday announced that it had entered into a long term agreement with the Win Group of Haiti to establish and operate a cement terminal in the earthquake battered French-speaking Caribbean

Pilots employed with the regional airline, LIAT, Tuesday announced a new strategy in their ongoing dispute with management, indicating that they will now seek to hold talks with the three shareholder governments in the future.

The Trinidad and Tobago Government has expressed satisfaction with yesterday’s turnout of police personnel at stations across the island despite a planned industrial action by cops.

The Haitian director of the British-based charity, Oxfam Great Britain, Roland Van Hauwermeiren, has voluntarily resigned amid allegations staff misconduct.

Government legislators have voted to send to a parliamentary special select committee, the Telecommunications Bill with Prime Minister Samuel Hinds indicating that the amendments will create a level playing field as well as a clear, harmonised, transparen

The head of St Lucia’s business community on Friday challenged Caribbean financial advisors meeting here to look to Canada as an example and to pledge to “never again” replay the crisis that led to the collapse of insurance firms CLICO and British America

Trinidad and Tobago Opposition senator, Fitzgerald Hinds says he will not apologise for comments he made in regard to Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar.

The chief economist for the Caribbean and Latin America at the World Bank warned on Thursday that a slide back to worldwide economic decline worldwide – a so-called double dip recession - could strain the region’s economies.