HAVANA, Cuba: After 50 years of rigid control, Cuba appears to be on the verge of lifting many overseas travel restrictions. One senior official says a "radical and profound" change is weeks away.   Par
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts & Nevis: Government is moving to ensure that persons who are employed and who perform duties as jurors do not suffer financial hardship.   Legislation going to the St. Kitts & Nevis Nationa
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ST JOHN’S, Antigua & Barbuda: After a magnitude 4.0 earthquake was recorded off the coast of this country last Friday, the Seismic Research Unit in Trinidad & Tobago has reiterated a warning that the Caribbean should pre
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Rum producers in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are concerned over subsidies and preferential access into the United States market being given to foreign rum producers in the United States Virgin Islands (US
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Recent reports by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that the cholera strain in Haiti is evolving and possibly becoming endemic to the impoverished Caribbean country.  
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada: This country’s government is not falling apart.   That was the message from Prime Minister Tillman Thomas as he tried to reassure Grenadians in an address to the nation last weekend.  
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St. Kitts & Nevis’ Minister of Tourism & International Transport, Rickey Skerritt, is still seething over the controversial Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax imposed on travellers from Britain to the Caribbean.   I
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KINGSTON, Jamaica: Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, Dr. Wykeham McNeill, welcomed one of Canada’s leading airlines, WestJet, to Kingston on Monday as the airline launched its new service for summer 2012 from Toronto. &n
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts & Nevis: St. Kitts & Nevis’ Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park has been listed as one of the 10 must-see places in the Caribbean. Caribbean cultural editor, Nick Marshall, listed the fortress in
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has called for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the protection of the environment as a whole.   Stewart joined environmentalists, conservationists and me
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