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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Chairman of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, on Tuesday, welcomed the adoption of the Paris Agreement at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over the weekend after several years ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – In the run up to a general election that is constitutionally due next year, both political parties, the ruling People’s National party (PNP) and the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), have agreed to refrain from ...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Newly elected Commonwealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, said, she was pleased that a school had been renamed in her honour saying”everyone knows that I love children”. The Vieille Case Primary School was named after Baroness ...

By Kenton X. Chance CMC Correspondent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (CMC) – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Monday night unveiled his 11-member Cabinet as opposition politicians continued to protest the results of the December 9 general elections. “It must be affirmed, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Guyana government says it remains optimistic of improved relations with Venezuela following the recent elections in that South American country that resulted in the opposition gaining control of the Parliament. Guyana and Venezuela are embroiled ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – National Security Minister, Peter Bunting, says, the amendment to the Maritime Drug Trafficking (Suppression) Act is not intended to deprive Jamaicans of their rights but to strengthen the hand of the government in the fight against ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – A 59-year-old teacher will appear in court on January 5, next year, after she was charged with beating a student with a ruler at the prestigious St. Richard’s Primary School in St Andrew. The Jamaica Gleaner ...

Photo above: Horace Walters, who has been involved in fishing for more than 40 years, said coastal communities, fishers, and fish farmers are already profoundly affected by climate change. He pointed to rising sea levels and acid oceans among the impacts ...

Photo above: Less than average rainfall across the Caribbean is expected to have a negative impact on agriculture and could see food prices increase in 2016. Photo credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS. By Kenton X. Chance IPS Caribbean Correspondent JOHN’S, Antigua (IPS) ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Friday said that the oil-rich twin island Republic is “officially in a recession” after it failed to post any economic growth for any quarter of 2015. Central ...