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Barbadian Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, David Thompson, announced on June 7 plans to broaden the consultative process for this year's budget to include a wider cross section... 2008-06-10

In BMI 's view, one of the key disconnects holding back progress in Haiti was on full display during May and early June - the stubborn gap between the need for rapid action to resolve... 2008-06-10

With the Commonwealth's gubernatorial elections scheduled for November - a none of the four major parties taking a decisive lead - the major political risk going forward is a change... 2008-06-10

Prime Minister Patrick Manning has criticised the opposition United National Congress (UNC) for trying to slow the government down. The opposition have been calling for the removal... 2008-06-10

The United Workers Party (UWP) government of Prime Minister Stephenson King is struggling amid an internal power struggle. BMI 's view is that the prospects for survival facing the... 2008-06-10

Crime, with its capacity to scare off tourists, was again coming into close focus in the Bahamas in mid-2008. In May two local youths were charged with the attempted murder of an... 2008-06-10

A government proposal designed to improve the country's tax-free zones was received by the Senate on June 4. The proposed Law for Strengthening of the Competitiveness of Tax-Free... 2008-06-09

US Ratings agency Standard & Poor's at the end of May said it had assigned investment grade A- long term and A-2 short term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings to Aruba... 2008-06-09

Guyana's Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, and Suriname's Minister of Justice and Police, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, have signed a bilateral agreement aimed at closer cooperation... 2008-06-06

Guyana's president Bharrat Jagdeo has called for stiffer penalties for officials found guilty of corruption. The president has advanced the possibility of going beyond simply severing... 2008-05-14