Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com By David Lawder | Reuters BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China on Monday that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by Chinese imports, as she wrapped up four days of meetings to press her case for Beijing to rein in excess […]
Photo courtesy: Big Drum Nation By bigdrumnation Today, April 7, 2024, marks the 25th anniversary of the transition of Dom Basil Matthews (1911-1999), the Trinidadian-born Benedictine monk and founder of St. Benevcicts College. Although most would remember Dr. Matthews as a monk, author, priest, educator, football pioneer, and debater, he was much more. Little wonder that […]
By Amalendu Misra | The Conversation The poorest nation in the western hemisphere, Haiti, finds itself in a catastrophic situation. For close to a month now, the country has been lurching from one crisis to another. The underwriters of the anarchy are armed gangs. Among their achievements are the removal of a sitting government, a near total takeover of the capital, […]
State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Alando Terrelonge. Photo courtesy: JIS By Mickella Anderson-Gordan | Jamaican Information Service The country will be marketed as a destination for trade and investment, at the 10th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference. Under the theme, ‘United for Jamaica’s Transformation’, this year’s conference will mark […]