This desk covers domestic politics in CARICOM Member States, in addition to the foreign policy issues that influence, or are influenced by, the Caribbean region
The WHO has called on countries worldwide to end the criminalisation of drug users as a means to curb HIV/AIDS. The recommendations are extensive, involving all classes of drugs, and are far more involved than the relaxation of marijuana laws currently being contemplated by CARICOM
Freedom of movement within the CSME gives life and meaning to regional integration, argues Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves
Dr. Franklin Johnston, a political advisor to Jamaica’s education minister, thinks that CARICOM is pointless for Jamaica, but his analysis is problematic
Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Barbados’ government bond rating by three notches to B3 from Ba3, while maintaining its negative outlook on the island.
US government representatives have told the Bahamas government that it must drop “all duties” on US products entering the country as a condition of being admitted to membership of the World Trade Organisation
The people of St. Vincent & the Grenadines will today decide whether to replace the island’s constitution, which has been in place since gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1979.
