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Retain your Social Security
A CARICOM National, who is a wage earner, must be insured in the Member State where he or she is employed and must therefore make contributions to the respective Social Security Organisation. He/She is entitled to the same benefits as nationals of the host country. The CARICOM Agreement on socal Security came into effect on April 1st, 1997. It protects…
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Social Security in CARICOM
The CARICOM Agreement on Social Security was signed in Georgetown, Guyana on 1 March 1996 and came into effect on 1 April 1997. From this date persons can thus apply for benefits under the Agreement. The Agreement is intended to protect CARICOM Nationals’ entitlement to benefits and provide equality of treatment when moving from one country to another. The Agreement…
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Haiti
Haiti became the Caribbean Community’s newest member on 2 July 2002 some four years after provisional membership had been granted. In October 2007 the CARICOM Representation Office in Haiti (CROH) was established with the mandate of assisting the Government of Haiti to implement the terms of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) as early as possible. The CROH operates as part…
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Bipartisan legislators reach preliminary immigration deal
WASHINGTON, CMC – A bipartisan group of legislators in the United States House of Representatives say they have reached a deal in principle in overhauling America’s immigration laws. Aides said the bill in the House of Representatives is similar to one introduced in the US Senate that includes a path to the legalization of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants,…
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Britain’s politics and the European Union
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – When, in January of this year, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to the British people on the issue of the country’s membership of the European Union, he promised that following the next parliamentary general elections due in mid-2015, the electorate would have an opportunity to decide on that issue, in what he called an “in or out”…
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Former Justice Minister wants AG sidelined during investigation
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former High Court judge Herbert Volney Tuesday called for the removal of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan from office, while police investigate allegations contained in emails purporting to show members of the coalition People’s Partnership government involved in attempts to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the media.…
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Press watchdog group condemns murder of journalist
PARIS, CMC – The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RWB) Tuesday said it hopes that the authorities will soon disclose the reasons behind the murder of radio journalist Pierre-Richard Alexandre, who was shot last weekend. A correspondent for the national radio station Radio Kiskeya and the host of a daily political discussion programme on local Radio Delta, Alexandre died of his…
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Former speaker dies on the eve of general election
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Edna Moyle, a founding member of the main opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) died Tuesday, less than 24 hours before voters in this British Overseas Territory go to the polls to elect a new government. Relatives said that the former Speaker of the House and North Side MLA legislator, died at the Cayman Islands…
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T&T, China talk trade, energy
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and new Chinese Ambassador Huang Xingyuan met on Monday to hold discussions on energy and trade relations between Trinidad and Tobago and China, a Ministry release said yesterday. Trinidad and Tobago exported five cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2011, and four in 2012 to China, the release added. Discussions…
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Unions urged to establish information system within OECS
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), David Messiah is calling on trade unions within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to help establish a labour market information system for the economic union of the sub-region. Messiah told the 17th biennial conference of the Waterfront and Allied Workers Union (WAWU) that such a system,…
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