Archive for June 23rd, 2011

“We have stepped up our joint efforts to crack down on corruption, illegal weapons, narcotics traffickers and to create economic opportunities for young people,” Clinton said.

She was speaking at a press conference at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel here in Rose Hall following a meeting with Caribbean foreign ministers last night.

Clinton told reporters that the US$77 million allocated for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative for fiscal year 2011/12 represents a 70 per cent increase over the previous year. “This support ...

He had grand plans on how to rebuild his broken land, but Haitian President Michel Martelly can’t even get over the first hurdle: forming a government.

Haiti’s parliament rejected Tuesday the new president’s pick for prime minister, Daniel Rouzier, sending Martelly back to the drawing board. Meanwhile, it has been more than six months since Haitians first went to the polls to vote for new leadership after last year’s devastating earthquake.

Martelly, a former pop star, nominated Rouzier, an entrepreneur who also ...