Barbados prime minister says CARICOM Single Market making progress

June 23, 2015 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_4308" align="alignright" width="300"] Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart[/caption] BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday June 23, 2015 – Ahead of next month’s Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government meeting, the prime minister with lead responsibility for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is suggesting that while the...

AG: No US extradition request as yet for Warner

June 22, 2015 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_6213" align="alignleft" width="300"] AG Garvin Nicholas[/caption] IT has been close to one month since a provisional warrant was issued for the arrest of Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, but up to Thursday, the Office of the Attorney General had...

Gov’t warned too many passports under NIF option

June 22, 2015 in Regional

Government is being warned that the high number of people accessing the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) through the National Investment Fund (NIF) option could devalue the country’s passport. Economist McCarthy Marie and Political Analyst Arvel Grant made the comments after Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s revelation...

PM: CIP could make up 25 per cent of govt’s revenue

June 19, 2015 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_3163" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne[/caption] The Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) could represent as much of 25 per cent of the country’s earnings this year, according to Prime Minister Gaston Browne. Browne made the remarks at an economic citizenship conference hosted...

Dominican Republic to begin deporting Haitian immigrants

June 19, 2015 in Regional

Dominican Republic authorities were preparing on Wednesday to deport thousands of undocumented Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent, with a midnight deadline to register for official residency documents. “If they aren’t registered, they will be repatriated,” said Gen. Rubén Paulino, who heads the country’s Immigration...