Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From the tobacco legislation to the carbon footprint post-CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago, Coffeewallah asks: “Has everybody in this country lost their cotton picking minds'”
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Barbados is the least corrupt among nine Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries surveyed by Transparency International (TI) in its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) this year.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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 Development Negotiations that came to an end last week.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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 Climate Change (UNFCCC) scheduled for next month in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Nine of the 14 Caricom countries are reeling from the effects of the global economic downturn and recessions of their own, the latest available data on the region is showing.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009 is the next place that Caricom countries will meet larger nations to discuss why they haven’t been getting their share of the financial pie.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
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.
Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Published on Friday, October 9, 2009 Email To Friend Print Version By Ronald Sanders In Turkey, where meetings of the IMF and the World Bank were held during the week of October 4th, Caribbean Finance Ministers raised with the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, John Lipsky, their concerns about “the need for better representation and participation of small, developing...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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 into the Rio Group ...
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on the Caricom Secre-tariat to pay close attention to what is happening as it relates to the ability of Trinidad ...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
IN VIEW of the dramatic and unprecedented dismissal of the Central Bank Governor of Jamaica, Derick Latibeaudiere, over what has been deemed a ’very excessive’ financial package for his services, it may be useful for Jamaicans and other citizens of this region to learn about the prevailing culture of payment contracts signed by his counterparts in other Caricom jurisdictions.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Regrettably, the standing of Caricom, both regionally and internationally, is now at one of its lowest points when the people of the region need it to be at its strongest.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to benefit from an injection of Euro 165 million (US$244 million) in funding from the European Commission as part of its ongoing support for regional integration.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
LET me declare my interest: I've long supported Caricom and West Indies cricket. But anyone can see the writing on the wall unless they're wilfully blind. First, Caricom. Caricom has exhausted itself. Caribbean regionalism is not so much in retreat as it is irrelevant. Caricom leaders have absolutely no interest in regional integration other than what petty benefits each can gouge out of it. Most of...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Jamaican government has still not received the green light for the extension of a waiver of the mandatory 15 per tax on cement imported from outside Caricom's 15-member trade bloc, two weeks after the Council for Trade and Economic Development...
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