Caribbean nations are feeling the sting of the U.S. recession but so far are weathering the storm, according to officials gathered in Miami for a regional conference.
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Caribbean looking for help on how to better manage their enterprises can now get some free advice courtesy of Scotiabank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation, a multilateral financial institution.
Canada's governor general, a largely ceremonial position, could decide the fate of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's embattled government.
Prime Minister Denzil Douglas says he is alarmed by rising violent crime in St. Kitts and Nevis. He is calling on parents to help reduce crime by teaching their kids ``what is right from wrong.''
Guyana's president has pardoned a former opposition legislator who had been accused of treason. Philip Bynoe was accused of inciting hundreds of protesters to raid President Bharrat Jagdeo's office in 2002.
As more severely malnourished children and their mothers trickled into Port-au-Prince Monday from Haiti's southeastern region to obtain life-saving treatment, the Ministry of Health and an international anti-hunger aid organization launched a national survey of children's nutritional health.
Long before dozens of Haitian children died from severe malnutrition, their rural community was no stranger to hunger.
Cross International, a South Florida humanitarian agency, has been awarded a $4.8 million grant from the U.S. government for a new program seeking to stem the spread of AIDS in Haiti.
Amnesty International is urging Jamaica to reform its justice system rather than resume executions to deal with violent crime. Amnesty International Deputy Director of the Americas Kerrie Howard says executions offer only an illusion of action against crime.
The drop in world energy prices is forcing Trinidad and Tobago to postpone the construction of new schools and two major hospitals.
A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march.
Grenada has ordered a Chinese company to stop construction on a nearly completed five-story hotel because it only had permission to build offices.
The Bahamas says it will finance several long-overdue projects after recently announcing it would step up borrowing to soften the blow of the global financial crisis.
Grenada has ordered a Chinese company to stop construction on a nearly completed five-story hotel because it only had permission to build offices.
Caribbean nations are grumbling that an aid package of euro165 million is not enough to help implement a free-trade agreement with the European Union.
More than 1,000 workers in Jamaica are rejecting a proposal from a Russian-owned bauxite and alumina producer to delay a salary increase.
The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, appears to have attained Olympian heights, setting at least five weather records in the United States and Cuba.
The British Virgin Islands is offering to split the cost of everyone's light bills as it explores alternative energy sources to drive down prices.
Pirates have seized a fishing vessel off the coast of South America, looting it of fuel and fish and setting its five crew members adrift in a small boat.
The European Union says it will send $7.7 million in emergency food aid to Haiti. The European Commission says funds are meant to provide food for around a million people.
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