Eastern Caribbean

St. John’s, Antigua: The Ministry of Labour has invited Liat and the Antigua & Barbuda’s Workers Union (ABWU) to the bargaining table in an attempt to stave off threatened industrial…

St. George’s, Grenada: The Republic of Korea is assisting Grenada in a research project that is aimed at supporting the development of a national policy for the integrated management of…

British Virgin Islands: Territorial At-large Representative Archibald Christian, said the Government needs to pay more attention to the handicapped and persons in the community who have social problems, the BVInews.com…

St. Kitts Nevis: Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Sam Condor, says he will continue to speak out on the controversial Dubai Consulate matter until the public gets the “whole truth”, The…

St. John’s, Antigua: A decision by intra-Caribbean airline LIAT to issue walking papers to 25 employees could result in region-wide industrial action, unions representing employees have warned, according to a…

St John’s, Antigua: More then 20 employees of LIAT’s cargo department have been made redundant, just over one year after the company launched the intra Caribbean service, affected employees said,…

British Virgin Islands: Third District Representative Julian Fraser has said the BVI needs to get into offshore banking, the BVInews.com reported. Making his presentation to the 2012 budget debate, Fraser…

Port Au Prince, Haiti: Hospital officials said at least 27 people were killed in a major road accident in Haiti when a truck carrying people overturned on a highway south…

St. Kitts Nevis: The Chief Medical Officer is reporting an upsurge in the number of new cases of Viral Gastroenteritis observed over the past week, The St. Kitts Nevis Observer…

St. John’s Antigua: A recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Antigua & Barbuda
has found that the twin island state has made “notable” progress in many
areas of fiscal performance, the…