WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday January 21, 2016 – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved loans and guarantees totaling US$11.3 billion and disbursed US$10.4 billion to borrowing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2015. In keeping with its mandate to support the region’s smaller and...
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, Friday January 22, 2016 – Workers in Antigua and Barbuda will get a tax ease from April when government abolishes Personal Income Tax (PIT). Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who made the announcement in his Budget presentation in Parliament yesterday, said it...
Director Spike Lee on Wednesday backed away from calls to boycott the Academy Awards ceremony amid controversy over a lack of diversity among this year's nominees and said a plan is needed to ensure racial equity in Hollywood. "I have never used the word boycott," Lee...
A U.S. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman against Bill Cosby, which contended the comedian smeared her character when he accused her of lying in claiming he had sexually assaulted her in the 1980s. Renita Hill, 48, had claimed...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Under-fire West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine says he is targeting the Twenty20 World Cup in March for a return to international cricket. The 27-year-old was banned from bowling in international cricket last November after the sport’s governing body, the ICC,...