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By Peter Richards Caribbean Correspondent PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (IPS) – The Dominican Republic first expressed interest in joining the 15-member Caribbean integration grouping CARICOM in 1989. Now, 14 years later, the Spanish-speaking country with a population of nearly 10 ...

By Peter Richards Caribbean Correspondent PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have ended their four-day summit here, on Saturday, agreeing to the immediate adoption of a stabilization and growth agenda which emphasises the removal of constraints ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The political ombudsman, Bishop Herro Blair, has resigned. In a letter to Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, Bishop Blair said that his resignation becomes effective, Sunday. The outgoing ombudsman said recent developments in his ministry will ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York, CMC – The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, has appointed Jamaica-born diplomat, Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, as the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System’s operational activities for development in Malaysia. She also will serve as Resident Representative ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The economies of the Eastern Caribbean continue to struggle from the global economic and financial crisis with 2012 being described as “a very challenging year”. Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Sir Dwight ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Young people from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), say they would like to live in a united, cohesive, productive and enabling region, and that the political directorate must lend themselves to an “awakening” of their ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana produced more than 218 thousand tonnes of sugar last year blaming industrial action and the inclement weather for the 7.8 percent decline over the previous year. Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, speaking at a “Honour’s ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, CMC – Latin America and Caribbean region has met a number of targets for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including halving the extreme poverty rate, according to a United Nations report released here, on Monday. The report ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Caribbean, as well as South and Latin American countries, have re-affirmed their commitment to the Venezuela-led oil initiative PetroCaribe, according to Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer. Spencer said that regional government leaders who ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament says the human bones unearthed under the “Red House” building during initial excavation work undertaken as part of the restoration of the building, date back to between 430 AD ...