The Indypendent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wedged between tropical rainforest and the Caribbean Sea in a wild, remote corner of Central America, 76 Garifuna villages lay scattered along hundreds of kilometers of pristine, white-sand beaches.
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Jamaica and Guyana have reached an understanding that clears the way for Kingston to source world markets for 9,000 tonnes of rice outside of Caricom. Karl Samuda, minister of industry and commerce, made the announcement to assure the country that there was unlikely...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Regional fishermen reeling from increasing fishing costs due to rising fuel prices will have their cause taken up at the CARICOM level.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been urged to review its foreign policy to approach relations with other countries with a unified stance.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding has again sought allay fears that CARIFORUM countries, comprising Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states and the Dominican Republic, may have given up more than they will gain from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
... the world. The attached table gives the comparative prices of major fuels in the three major Caricom economies. Both Jamaica and Barbados faced increased petroleum product prices from early April. More increases are expected to follow in light of the continued escalation in oil prices. The April increases in Barbados were the first since December 2006, when oil prices stood at US$60.00/bbl....
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
FLOUR subsidies in Barbados and elsewhere in the Caribbean are an acceptable interim strategy but aren't a permanent solution to the food price crisis sweeping the region. What's really needed is a vigorous return to agriculture plus a regional food production plan that would put more Caribbean dishes on tables. This advice comes from Byron Blake, a former top Caricom economist who realised...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
There's been a suggestion that the Caribbean integration process include other islands outside the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
The Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) expectations that it would have been back at the table to iron out a deal with Canada, were dashed this week when the Canadians threw out the May 1-3 date, saying it was inconvenient, according to Ambassador Richard Bernal....
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
JAMAICA HAS warned that it will override any Guyanese resistance to its request for a suspension of Caribbean Community's (CARI-COM) 25 per cent common external tariff (CET) on the import of up to 24,000 tonnes of rice, a move aimed at guaranteeing domestic demand...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
As oil prices hit US $120 per barrel, Looshan Ramblings says: “The…continued rise in oil prices will negate any efforts by Caricom governments to reduce food prices as we are so heavily dependent on imported food.”
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Edwin Carrington, arrives in St Maarten today for a three-day joint mission with the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC).
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
THE FOOD CRISIS and general "miserable living conditions" facing the people of Haiti have evoked separate responses from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and Roman Catholic Jesuit Priests working in that impoverished and conflict-prone state. Yesterday, the Caricom Secretariat was pushing ahead with arrangements to mobilse financial and humanitarian aid for the Haitian people, in...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Local rice distributors and importers of the staple from Guyana have thrown their support behind Government's decision to apply to CARICOM for an immediate suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET) on the commodity. The move, announced yesterday afternoon, is being made to secure...
Guyana 360 (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) held a successful picketing exercise in front of the Caribbean Community Secretariat Building , Liliendaal on the East Coast of Demerara, today, Monday, April 21, 2008. The Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Mr. Robert Corbin, had indicated that such an exercise would take place when he spoke at the March and Rally organised by...
