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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – The Grenada government has launched a debt exchange offer exchanging its United States (US) and Eastern Caribbean (EC) dollar bonds due in 2025. The Keith Mitchell administration said that the bonds are being exchanged for ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Caribbean economies could register growth over the next two years despite the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)  predicting a downward trend in the region’s economic activity. ECLAC said economic growth will decline ...

LIMA, Peru CMC – The World Bank says four years of an economic downturn are beginning to have adverse effects on jobs and household incomes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It said that after a commodity boom brought significant ...

By Ramesh Jaura IPS Correspondent ACP Secretary-General Dr Patrick Ignatius Gomes talks to Ramesh Jaura. Dr Patrick Ignatius Gomes of Guyana was elected the Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) at the 100th Session of ...

Photo above: Rowley Jeffrey (right) after autographing a copy of his book for visiting Grenadian George Robinson, a former national track athlete. Photo by Lincoln Depradine. By Lincoln Depradine PRIDE Contributing Writer The seeds were planted many years ago, miles away ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Disaster officials, on Tuesday, confirmed that several houses had lost their roofs as Trinidad and Tobago was being affected by an inter-tropical convergence zone. Chairman of the San Juan Laventille Regional Corporation, Anthony Roberts, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission on the Economy, Darcy Boyce, on Monday, warned that if Caribbean economies are to overcome the low economic growth experienced in recent years, the export earning sectors must grow ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government says it has extended the gun amnesty by a further two weeks, after law enforcement authorities said they had recovered more than 100 firearms during the month long initiative in September. The Ministry ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday presented a TT$62.8 billion (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) budget to Parliament outlining a host of new taxes including, a 15 per cent increase on gasoline and diesel ...

Photo above: Guyana’s President David Granger, left, shares a toast with newly accredited EU Ambassador to Guyana, Jernej Videtič. Photo credit: newssourcegy.com. GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – On Monday, the European Union (EU) offered to assist Guyana in developing and implementing major ...