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  • Jamaica, China Dreaming Together

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Chinese people have always had the dream of the Great Harmony of all and longed for a beautiful society with noble virtue, material plenty, equality and equity. Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted the idea of a Chinese dream, which would spur the rejuvenation of the nation. It centred on the country's prosperity and people's happiness.…

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  • Chinese eggs waiting to be hatched

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – FROM the Government of China's point of view, the visit of President Xi Jinping to Trinidad to meet nine Caribbean Heads of Government was a great success. Each of the nine leaders made statements after individual short meetings with President Xi, praising China for the loans and assistance being given to their countries individually. From the news…

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  • ‘Qatar City’ planned for Haiti after $20m pledge

    Qatar has finalised the details of a development called ‘Qatar City’ being funded near Port-au-Prince as part of an aid pledge made by the Gulf state in the wake of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The project is a being jointly funded with $5m from Qatar and $4m from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and involves 148 houses, a…

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  • Earthquake strikes, residents reminded to ‘drop, cover, hold on’

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook Antigua around 1:11 am yesterday and frightening many residents, including one from Buckleys who said, “it felt as if the house was being ripped from its foundation. It was very scary.” Also speaking about the tremor on earthquake-report.com, a St John’s resident said, “It rocked my house! It came in small…

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  • Northeastern Caribbean rattled by earthquake

    ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Sections of the northeastern Caribbean were rocked by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday evening. The United States Geological Survey confirmed that the tremor was felt as far north as St Maarten, as far south as Guadeloupe and across St Eustatius and St Kitts and Nevis. Its epicentre was about 30 kilometres southwest of Codrington, Barbuda, at…

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  • Reports of avian flu outbreak denied

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC -Officials in the Dominican Republic have denied reports of an outbreak of avian flu adding that the World Health Organisation declared the country free of bird flu three years ago. In a statement on Friday, the Dominican Ambassador to Haiti, Ruben Silie said Haiti erroneously reported that the neighbouring country had an outbreak of avian…

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  • Health Minister Puts Fast-Food Tax On The Table – Gov’t Facilitates Consultation On Hospital User-Fe

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE GOVERNMENT is considering several measures, among them the imposition of a levy on fast foods, to fund health care on the island. Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson, who will today head to the Carter Hall, Holy Cross Church, in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, for the second in a series of consultations on user fees in public…

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  • St. Vincent to be recognised for reducing undernourishment among its population

    KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is to travel to Rome to accept an award from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in recognition of St. Vincent and the Grenadines significantly reducing the number of people suffering from undernourishment. “The Food and Agricultural Organisation, they just sent a letter to us. St. Vincent and…

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  • Working group tasked with monitoring FATCA compliance

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has established a working group on the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the first positive steps taken towards compliance. A press release from the central bank stated that the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) Working Group will ensure that financial institutions, which operate within the ECCU, are…

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  • Two-thirds of Haiti’s people face hunger and malnourishment as problems worsen in storms’ wake

    BELLE ANSE, Haiti – The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. The hair on broomstick-thin children has turned patchy and orangish, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age — the tell-tale signs of malnutrition. Mabriole town official Geneus Lissage…

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