A month after taking over the reins of the opposition United National Congress (UNC) from Basdeo Panday, Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday took the Opposition Leader position in the House of Representatives.

An agriculture official at the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat has warned that the presence of a fungus known as the black sigatoka in some member countries has the potential to significantly impact their agricultural industries.

Efforts to save Guyana’s valued rice crop as the country tries to cope with the prolonged drought are paying off with GUY$600 million (US$2.9 million) worth of rice saved in just one instance.

A cacophony of murmurs and cries echoed through the neighbourhoods of Haiti's capital city Monday night as a violent aftershock shook people awake. Ten minutes later, another tremor rocked the ground, this time more smoothly back and forth.

The liquidators appointed in Antigua and Barbuda to recover Allen Stanford’s have won another round in their battle against their American counterpart.

The St Lucia government has declared a water emergency which went into effect yesterday, amidst a prolonged drought that has also affected other Caribbean countries.

The Antigua and Barbuda government says it expects that in another four months, it will no longer be deficient in areas identified in a recent Financial Action Task Force (FATF) statement.

The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) is wrapping up a review of the laws and systems of the anti-money laundering and the combating of financing of Terrorism regime in Montserrat.