March 2019

Caricom worried about impact of climate change on region

March 15, 2019 in Regional

BUDAPEST, Romania (CMC) — Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque says climate change remains an 'existential threat' to the development of the Caribbean. Addressing an international conference on Building Resilience to Natural Disasters, LaRocque said that “it has been recorded that between 2000 and 2017,...

St. Kitts Nevis Averts EU’s Latest Tax Haven Blacklist

March 13, 2019 in National

Foreign Affairs Minister, Nevis Premier Mark Brantley is crediting the Nevis Island Administration and federal government’s prompt legislative response to the EU’s most recent threat of blacklisting for St. Kitts and Nevis being excluded from the Euro bloc’s revised black-list of non-cooperative jurisdictions. During Tuesday’s ECOFIN...