Later this month, senior Caribbean officials will meet in Jamaica with their European counterparts to consider the nature of the future Cariforum-European Union relationship. Their ...

A new Zimbabwean law that forces companies to sell a majority stake in their businesses to indigenous people has come into effect. Firms worth more than $500,000 (£332,000) ru...

British Airways union Unite met its US counterpart Teamsters on Wednesday 17th to discuss the strike by the airline's cabin crew. Teamsters, the main transport union in the US, conf...

After the Haiti earthquake on 12 January, the first priorities were medical help and housing, and feeding the victims. Money has been forthcoming, but aid agencies say it is simply ...

The Brazilian government has announced trade ...

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times": so wrote Niccolo Machiavelli in his discourses in 1513. This message from the past is one tha...

A curfew in Chile's second city, Concepcion, has been extended until midday (1500 GMT) as troops struggle to contain looting after the earthquake. Dozens of people were arrested aft...

Several Caribbean nations are battling prolonged low rainfall that is hurting residents and economic sectors and the pattern could continue for some weeks yet, according to forecast...

Latin American and Caribbean leaders have backed Argentina's claim over the Falklands, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has said. At a regional summit in Cancun, M...