CALLEBASSE, Haiti (AFP) -- "I would like to give up my son again," says Anchello Cantave, a farmer here, who willingly handed over his five-year-old to US missionaries now facing charges of child abduction in Haiti's post-quake chaos. Cantave, 36, is convinced that the Americans had only good intentions. read more...
CAMAGUEY, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba has launched an ambitious project to ring urban areas with thousands of small farms in a bid to reverse the country's long agricultural decline and ease its chronic economic woes. The five-year plan calls for growing fruits and vegetables and raising livestock. read more...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- As Guyana's Minister of Finance, Ashni Singh, prepares to unveil the 2010 National Budget on Monday, the focus of the administration’s efforts for the coming year will be on consolidating and building on the gains achieved so far. This was revealed by President Bharrat Jagdeo. read more...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- President of China, Hu Jintao, said that his government would like to work with Jamaica to strengthen cooperation in various fields including politics and the economy for the benefit of both countries. He was speaking during a meeting with Prime Minister Bruce Golding. read more...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Minister of Economic Affairs, Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce, David Estwick, has advised local businesses to utilise networking as a means of revitalising their operations during the economic downturn. He made this observation recently, while addressing... read more...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados will next week become signatory to a Barbados-China Double Taxation Protocol. Minister of International Business, George Hutson, will deliver an address and sign the agreement, during a ceremony on Wednesday, February 10, at 9:30 am.. read more...
ROAD TOWN, BVI – Tortola based BVAirways, Inc. has received final British Virgin Islands government certification and approvals to begin providing scheduled airline service based out of Tortola-Beef Island Airport under the trade name BVI Airways. The airline anticipates beginning scheduled service in late February. read more...
NEW YORK, USA -- Grenadian artistes in New York will come together in a benefit concert to raise money to assist the people of Haiti following last month’s devastating earthquake. GRENCAP United, the umbrella body of Grenadian organisations in New York, is collaborating with the Grenada Consulate. read more...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo was on Saturday awarded an honourary doctorate by the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. Jagdeo, a former student at the university, was selected for the award by the institution’s academic board last month. read more...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana has been deemed by the United Nations to be the kindest country regarding monetary and other donations to Haiti. ReliefWeb, a UN-operated website providing the latest information to humanitarian organizations, released a graph detailing funding by countries to Haiti. read more...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- From an air-conditioned tent in what used to be a Port-au-Prince bus station, the mighty US military controls its 17,000 troops deployed to help Haiti's earthquake relief, amid questions over how long they will stay. The US military has reduced its presence in the Haiti in recent weeks. read more...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The cockfighting must go on, even after earthquakes, so the roosters have been bathed, their claws sharpened, and they wait in cages in the red-carpeted ring, the crowd anxious and gripping cash. The referee has weighed them and now he wants a moment of silence for prayer. read more...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Despite the desolation wrought by last month's earthquake, Haiti can salvage hope for the future by looking at how the Indonesian province of Aceh rebuilt after the equally devastating 2004 tsunami. More than 6.7 billion dollars was poured into the rebuilding of Aceh over five years. read more...
LONDON, England (AFP) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday hailed a G7 decision to cancel bilateral debt with Haiti, saying "a nation buried in rubble must not also be buried in debt". Around a million people were left homeless in Haiti after a devastating earthquake on January 12. read more...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Special CARICOM Envoy on Haiti Disaster Relief, former Jamaican prime minister, P J Patterson, has suggested several long term measures for the rebuilding of the earthquake ravaged nation, Haiti, which he says will ensure the rebirth of the country. "Simply putting back what was there... read more...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Haiti's quake-shattered justice system, grappling with collapsed courts, destroyed records and homeless employees, would be hard-pressed to hold a high-profile trial for 10 Americans charged with kidnapping children, Haitian lawyers and rights advocates said on Sunday. read more...
MANDEVILLE, Jamaica (JIS) -- The level of improvement at Jamalco in 2009 was the highest among alumina refineries in Alcoa's Global Primary Products (GPP) network. This was announced by Alcoa's Executive Vice President and President of Alcoa's GPP Business Unit, Bernt Reitan. read more...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (OPM) -- CARICOM has given a commitment to finance the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) relief base in Haiti for another month so that humanitarian assistance from the region can continue in the earthquake ravaged capital of Port au Prince. Funding until March 5 will come from the Bahamas. read more...
BRADES, Montserrat (GIU) -- Montserrat has already collected more than EC$100,000 to aid in earthquake-stricken Haiti. This effort was praised by Sue Wardell, the Regional Director for the Department for International Development (DfID) during her recent visit to the island. The amount continues to increase weekly. read more...
BRADES, Montserrat – The leadership and focus of the administration of Chief Minister Reuben Meade is a key factor in Britain's Department for International Development’s (DfID) willingness to give Montserrat more autonomy in its spending of aid as it has done in other Overseas Territories. read more...
BRADES, Montserrat – No inhabited areas were affected by Friday’s volcano explosion, says Director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) Dr Paul Cole. The full report reads as follows: “At 1:49 pm 5th Feb 2010 a vulcanian explosion occurred from the Soufriere Hills volcano..." read more...
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis -- Commissioner to the Commission of Inquiry on Nevis, Thomas Sharpe QC, has commended Nevisians for what he said was their willingness to provide evidence critical to the investigation. He said the people were friendly, forthcoming and very helpful and he wanted to pay tribute to that. read more...
BASSATERRE, St Kitts (COUPM) -- A new nine-member St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Cabinet of Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas was sworn in on Sunday afternoon. Prime Minister Douglas and his new ministers took the oaths of allegiance, office and secrecy administered by his Lordship Frances Bell. read more...
BELMOPAN, Belize -- January 28, 2010, hundreds of people packed the Pierre Hotel Auditorium in Manhattan, New York City, to attend the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) $500 per plate On Thursday, fundraiser, when awards were given to alumni and others for their life accomplishments. read more...
Since the visit of President Jagdeo to Tehran, all sorts of unfounded accusations, baseless speculations and superfluous insinuations, most expressing anti-Iran hysteria, have appeared in the Guyanese media condemning the visit. Some interpreted the presence of Jagdeo in Iran as an anti-American move. read more...
Ms Charlyne E Sealy, in a thoughtful letter to the Tribune on January 25, responds to the Heritage Foundation report showing decline of economic freedom in the Bahamas. Her remarks were directed to Rick Lowe, Vice President of The Nassau Institute. The key ingredients of economic freedom are... read more...
From the inception of public discussions on Diageo and Cruzan Rum, this writer recognized the value of supporting the efforts of our government in pursuit of the opportunities for diversifying the Virgin Islands economy through increased rum production and exportation to the United States based upon special tax legislation. read more...
An I-petition ‘For the love of Haiti and its People’, has just been launched online. This I-petition is the initiative of the well known St Martin nation-building grassroot movement on the island of St Martin/Sint Maarten. While this grassroot St Martin movement has already committed itself financially and otherwise... read more...
There has been much discussion lately (in SVG and the Diaspora) about the presence of foreign organisations/consultants operating is St Vincent and the Grenadines. They appear to be advising one of the political parties. Selling citizenships, as many allege, may not be the only motive here. read more...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Digicel, on Thursday distributed care packs containing food, water, milk, T-shirts and medical supplies to 350 members of the Haiti National Football Federation and to over 100 members of the Special Olympics Association who have been living in campsites following the earthquake in Haiti. read more...
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CALLEBASSE, Haiti (AFP) -- "I would like to give up my son again," says Anchello Cantave, a farmer here, who willingly handed over his five-year-old to US missionaries now facing charges of child abduction in Haiti's post-quake chaos. Cantave, 36, is convinced that the Americans had only good intentions. 
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- President of China, Hu Jintao, said that his government would like to work with Jamaica to strengthen cooperation in various fields including politics and the economy for the benefit of both countries. He was speaking during a meeting with Prime Minister Bruce Golding. 
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Minister of Economic Affairs, Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce, David Estwick, has advised local businesses to utilise networking as a means of revitalising their operations during the economic downturn. He made this observation recently, while addressing... 
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados will next week become signatory to a Barbados-China Double Taxation Protocol. Minister of International Business, George Hutson, will deliver an address and sign the agreement, during a ceremony on Wednesday, February 10, at 9:30 am.. 
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo was on Saturday awarded an honourary doctorate by the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. Jagdeo, a former student at the university, was selected for the award by the institution’s academic board last month. 
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- From an air-conditioned tent in what used to be a Port-au-Prince bus station, the mighty US military controls its 17,000 troops deployed to help Haiti's earthquake relief, amid questions over how long they will stay. The US military has reduced its presence in the Haiti in recent weeks. 
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The cockfighting must go on, even after earthquakes, so the roosters have been bathed, their claws sharpened, and they wait in cages in the red-carpeted ring, the crowd anxious and gripping cash. The referee has weighed them and now he wants a moment of silence for prayer. 
LONDON, England (AFP) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday hailed a G7 decision to cancel bilateral debt with Haiti, saying "a nation buried in rubble must not also be buried in debt". Around a million people were left homeless in Haiti after a devastating earthquake on January 12. 
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Special CARICOM Envoy on Haiti Disaster Relief, former Jamaican prime minister, P J Patterson, has suggested several long term measures for the rebuilding of the earthquake ravaged nation, Haiti, which he says will ensure the rebirth of the country. "Simply putting back what was there... 
BRADES, Montserrat (GIU) -- Montserrat has already collected more than EC$100,000 to aid in earthquake-stricken Haiti. This effort was praised by Sue Wardell, the Regional Director for the Department for International Development (DfID) during her recent visit to the island. The amount continues to increase weekly. .jpg)
BRADES, Montserrat – The leadership and focus of the administration of Chief Minister Reuben Meade is a key factor in Britain's Department for International Development’s (DfID) willingness to give Montserrat more autonomy in its spending of aid as it has done in other Overseas Territories. 
BRADES, Montserrat – No inhabited areas were affected by Friday’s volcano explosion, says Director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) Dr Paul Cole. The full report reads as follows: “At 1:49 pm 5th Feb 2010 a vulcanian explosion occurred from the Soufriere Hills volcano..." 
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis -- Commissioner to the Commission of Inquiry on Nevis, Thomas Sharpe QC, has commended Nevisians for what he said was their willingness to provide evidence critical to the investigation. He said the people were friendly, forthcoming and very helpful and he wanted to pay tribute to that. 
BASSATERRE, St Kitts (COUPM) -- A new nine-member St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Cabinet of Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas was sworn in on Sunday afternoon. Prime Minister Douglas and his new ministers took the oaths of allegiance, office and secrecy administered by his Lordship Frances Bell. 
BELMOPAN, Belize -- January 28, 2010, hundreds of people packed the Pierre Hotel Auditorium in Manhattan, New York City, to attend the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) $500 per plate On Thursday, fundraiser, when awards were given to alumni and others for their life accomplishments. 
Since the visit of President Jagdeo to Tehran, all sorts of unfounded accusations, baseless speculations and superfluous insinuations, most expressing anti-Iran hysteria, have appeared in the Guyanese media condemning the visit. Some interpreted the presence of Jagdeo in Iran as an anti-American move. 
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Digicel, on Thursday distributed care packs containing food, water, milk, T-shirts and medical supplies to 350 members of the Haiti National Football Federation and to over 100 members of the Special Olympics Association who have been living in campsites following the earthquake in Haiti. 
