KINGSTON, Jamaica - TRINIDAD-BASED Caribbean Airlines (CAL) assumed responsibility for Air Jamaica flights as well as the right to use the Air Jamaica brand name in 2010.
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ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC â A three-day regional workshop aimed at promoting regional economic integration as part of an International Financial Corporation (FIC) implemented initiative to automate the Bureau of Standardsâ clearance for imports began here Wednesday.
âWith this initiative we seek to help government agencies connect more efficiently, thus making import clearance easier and reducing logistics costs that are still a challenge for many businesses in the region,â said IFC trade logistics specialist Lazare Ristic.
The workshop is being attended by delegates from Antigua and Barbuda, Gren
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC â St. Lucia was jolted by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 late on Tuesday night, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reported Wednesday.
It said that the quake occurred at 11.45 pm (local time) and was located at 14.02° degrees north, and 60.61 degrees west.
UWI said that the quake with a depth of 20km âmay have been felt in nearby islandsâ but that there have been no reports of injury or damage.
Thousands of supporters of Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide have defied a ban on protests to follow his convoy through the streets.
Mr Aristide was attending a courthouse in Port-au-Prince to answer questions about the murder of a well-known journalist in 2000.
It was his first appearance in public since his return from exile in 2011.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC â As the coalition Peopleâs Partnership gets ready to celebrate its third anniversary in office, Opposition Leader Dr.
TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) -- The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean.
For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines of the southern Caribbean island, there's nothing theoretical about the threat of rising sea levels.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Middle East seems on the verge of another war or at best a long period of instability. Last week, Israel reportedly made air strikes on Syria, a development which has already attracted wide condemnation in the Arab world. Egypt on Sunday condemned the attacks, with the Arab League also demanding that the United Nations Security Council act to stop what it called âIsraeli attacksâ. It says the air strikes âviolated international law and principles that will further complicate the situationâ.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - SIR Hilary Beckles' recently published book, Britain's Black Debt, has returned to the spotlight the burning issue of reparations.
Launched last Thursday at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, the book definitively establishes that there is a case to be answered by providing detailed historical evidence of slavery.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC â The Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTTI) is calling for the establishment of an ethical protocol for government ministers who are facing serious allegations.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Organisation of American States (OAS) regional experts meeting on the project âExpanding the Socio-Economic Potential of Cultural Heritage in the Caribbeanâ, got under way at Amaryllis Hotel yesterday.
OAS Representative to Barbados, Francis McBarnette, pointed out to participants that the OAS of today represents a hemisphere of vast cultural diversity, whether referring to architecture, paintings, music, sculpture, craft work, cinema cuisine, literature or religion.
âAll these forms are relevant, ever evolving, and dynamic,â he stressed.