(CMC): The police have charged former Cayman premier and current house speaker, McKeeva Bush, with four offences, including common assault, arising out of an incident at a bar in February. Bush, who appeared in court on Friday, had taken...
St Lucia's Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has announced plans for a phased reopening of the island's economy, as the fight against COVID-19 continues. The country has 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19, which has remained stable despite a...
(CMC): Minister of Health in The British Virgin Islands (BVI), Carvin Malone, says the BVI has sought the assistance of the United Kingdom to retrieve a shipment of medical supplies that have been seized by United States authorities...
(CMC): Jamaican church leaders are to stage a three-hour virtual intercessory prayer session on Tuesday, as the country fights the spread of COVID-19 and its social and economic effects. The session, which is to be...
(CMC): The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is making available up to US$140 million to borrowing member countries to mitigate fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and disasters. President of the CDB, Dr Warren Smith says the pandemic is...
(CMC): Grenada has recorded its first case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The announcement was made today during a press conference called by the Ministry of Health. The individual has been identified as a female, who has been...
(CMC): Barbados now has 14 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Leaders of the Caribbean Community state have appealed to citizens not to panic, but to follow the guidelines being outlined by health officials. The number...
(CMC): The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has provided its first advisory opinion concerning the interpretation and application of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC), which governs CARICOM. CARICOM leaders had requested the court’...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has made a fervent appeal to the Americas, including the Caribbean, to prepare to respond to imported cases, outbreaks and community transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). On...
Guyana's Acting Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire, has said she will deliver a preliminary ruling tomorrow in the latest twist to last Monday’s regional and general elections in Guyana for which no clear winner has yet been...
A new United Nations report is warning that progress made towards gender equality is lagging and hard-fought gains are under threat as the international community gears up to observe International Women’s Day tomorrow. The report, titled :...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC)– The police in Guyana have confirmed that an 18-year-old was shot and killed on Friday evening after he reportedly attacked two police officers with a cutlass. The police say Seedat Hansraj of Cotton Tree...
Published:Sunday | February 23, 2020 | 12:00 AMCMC
(CMC)- Jamaica is among five Caribbean countries the Trump administration in the United States has named eligible for visa programmes that allow US employers to bring foreign nationals to the US to fill temporary agricultural and non-...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb 9, CMC – A ship that carried passengers suspected of contracting the novel coronavirus, is due to arrive in Bermuda tomorrow. The ship comes as health officials announced that 14 people on the island...
American oil giant, ExxonMobil has struck oil again this time at the Longtail-1 exploration well, making this the eighth successful discovery in Guyana. In a press release ExxonMobil’s partner Hess Corp said this discovery creates...
The Trinidad & Tobago government said Monday it would pay an estimated TT$2.5 billion in arrears to public workers by the end of March, while noting that the wage bill inherited from the former administration is being financed from new debt....
Published:Friday | February 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMCMC
Less than 24 hours after the Appeal Court lifted an injunction that had barred his dismissal, the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr DeLisle Worrell, has been fired. His attorney, Gregory Nicholls, confirmed that his client had received...
Published:Thursday | February 23, 2017 | 4:18 PMCMC
The Bahamas Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) says it has conducted survey to gauge public opinion and perception on the services provided by local clearing banks, and the level of fees associated with provision of those services. “We want...
Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 4:58 PMCMC
Former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur says he is concerned that the island’s Central Bank could soon be running out of foreign reserves and that the Caribbean island is headed for a serious financial crisis. Arthur, an economist, who...
Lawyers representing embattled Barbados Central Bank Governor Dr. Delisle Worrell say the High Court will on Wednesday hear arguments restraining the Barbados government on moving to dismiss their client. The lawyers on Sunday obtained an ex-parte...
Caribbean tourism officials have ended a two-day meeting in the Bahamas saying they are moving to capitalise on the growing number of Mexicans expressing an interest in travelling to the Caribbean for vacation. “Mexico over the last few years...
Guyana's President David Granger is calling on banks operating there to use mobile technology to extend their services to customers, especially those in remote parts of the couuntry.Many residents in the hinterland have to make costly overnight...
The Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) is urging the Trinidad T Tobago government not to privatise Petrotrin, but to stick with the option of overhauling the cash-strapped and state-owned oil company. Last week, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley...
The main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) says it will not allow the local economy to “drift along” for another 12 months and called on the Freundel Stuart government to provide a true state of the economy to the population....
The Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy Antoine is urging Caribbean governments administering Citizenship by Investment Programmes (CIP) to be more transparent and not to use the funds collected for recurrent expenditure...
