Nearly two decades ago, a former Caribbean minister with an unconventional background would try to shock those that he met into recognising that agriculture in the region was dying and that it was the services sector that...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, November 18, 2009 - Barbados is the least corrupt among nine Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries surveyed by Transparency International (TI) in its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) this year. The...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has unveiled a campaign to promote the region's collective position on climate change, ahead of the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on...
Director-General of the Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Ambassador Gail Mathurin, says the region is satisfied with the first round of the CARICOM/Canada Trade and...
ROME, Italy, Nov 17, 2009 (Caribbean Net News - Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and president of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo wants the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support the...
When the nationals of St Vincent and the Grenadines vote in a national referendum on a new Constitution on November 25th, the polling will take place under the watchful eye of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) observer.
By Sir Ronald Sanders Government representatives of all the countries that now form the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), except the Bahamas and Haiti, were present at a meeting in Mont...
CARICOM has denied Jamaica an extension of the cement duty waiver, scoring a victory for Caribbean Cement Company and its Trinidad parent, TCL Group, but last night Industry and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda vowed to fight the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is now the 25th country, and the fifth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member, to be accepted into the prestigious Rio Group. Prime Minister Bruce Golding expressed pleasure at the acceptance of Jamaica...
Jamaica's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Kenneth Baugh, has suggested that Spanish be made a second language in Jamaica, in light of the shifting dynamics of the hemisphere.