IMF Executive Board WASHINGTON, USA — On November 5, 2018, the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the IMF’s latest financial system stability assessment (FSSA) of Jamaica. The financial sector has significantly expanded since the last FSSA in 2006. Financial sector assets now stand at about 180 percent of GDP. The financial […]

Cayman Airways 737 MAX 8 Delivery (7256) – November 28, 2018 SEATTLE, USA — Cayman Airways took formal delivery of its new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from Air Lease Corporation (ALC) on November 28, 2018, at a ceremony in Seattle hosted by Boeing to mark the occasion. “This year, as we celebrate 50 years […]

David Jessop is a consultant to the Caribbean Council and can be contacted at [email protected]. Previous columns can be found at www.caribbean-council.org By David Jessop Over the next two weeks, ministers, officials, non-governmental organisations, corporate lobbyists and protestors from around the world will assemble in Katowice, Poland. There, whether inside or outside the conference halls, […]

Jean H Charles LLB, MSW, JD, is a regular contributor to the opinion section of Caribbean News Now. He can be reached at [email protected] By Jean H Charles I was perusing this week the weekly Tablet, the journal of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn in New York, when I fell upon an article with picture […]

Dear Sir: If reports of 60,000 Venezuelan illegal immigrants are correct, this means close to 4,400 Venezuelans per 100,000 Trinidad and Tobago nationals reside here — the highest in Latin America. Given these figures why do we not have a comprehensive immigration/refugee policy in place? Why the sloth? In the absence of this immigration/asylum policy, […]

Dear Sir: Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is attempting to disguise and confuse the facts about deaths of newborn babies, in what is another indicator of the national medical crisis. Mr Deyalsingh has not provided official statistics, claiming instead that there has been a “slight uptick” at two public hospitals. The reasons he advanced typify the […]

Hon. Prime Minister, The matter of St Jude Hospital continues to be of grave concern not only of residents of Vieux Fort but all citizens of Saint Lucia and whereas the local news agencies have not yet reported on some of the recent happenings.., from the photographs currently in circulation in social media and the […]

Dear Dominica, I have occasion to write to you to explain, rationalize and yes, even apologise to my friends and family whom I might have caused anxiety by my actions of the last few days, which were solely done on your behalf, the reason for which I now explain to you. On Thursday November 22nd […]