Regional

While CXC will still be offering the traditional paper-based certificate, students who have registered unique and valid e-mail addresses, will now have the option to acquire their official certification through Blockcerts or blockchain…

Six and a half months after embattled Andrew Wheatley resigned as Energy Minister, Jamaica’s Prime Minister who had taken oversight of that portfolio has now picked a replacement.Read more:…

The Trinidad government is supporting the growth of animation to allow nationals to tap into a US$259 billion industry.Highlighting the potential earning power of the sector, which is among the fastest growing given the digital economy,…

Police are investigating the murder of an Opposition Member of Parliament who was found dead in his home.The body of People’s National Party (PNP) MP for Portland Eastern, Dr Lynvale Bloomfield, was found with multiple stab wounds on…

At least 28 Haitian migrants drowned in the waters off the northern Bahamian island of Abaco when the vessel they were travelling in capsized and sunk over the weekend.The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) said 17 survivors were…

With the last state of public emergency (SOE) that was in effect in Jamaica set to expire at the end of the day, government is seeking to assure that security forces will still maintain a strong presence.Read more:…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday January 31 2019 – The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre recorded a 4.4 earthquake off Trinidad and Tobago early today.Read more:…

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government will, in the coming months, be looking at all the assets under its portfolio with the intention of divesting them.Read more:…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he’s open to having talks with his opponents to resolve the political crisis in his country that has deepened since last week when Opposition Leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim leader.…

Police in Trinidad & Tobago are once again reminding citizens to be careful and observant when making bank transactions.The latest reminder follows the robbery of an 88-year-old man mere moments after he left First Citizens Bank in…

SEVERAL people who were looking for jobs at Christmas were instead scammed of thousands of dollars.In December, several people who are members of a WhatsApp group were falsely told they would be employed as riggers at an energy company…

Black plastic pipes, readily available on the mainly empty shelves of Cuba’s shops, distribute biogas to homes in the rural town of La Macuca, buried under the ground or running through the grass and stones in people’s yards.The strong…

The European Union has disbursed EC$17.55 million (US$6.5 million) to the Government of Montserrat as the first fixed tranche under the Multi Sector Sustainable Economic Development Budget Support Programme.Read more: …

The Ministry of Natural Resources says it is “cautiously optimistic” after the Donald Trump administration said it was ready to remove the sanctions on the Russian-owned and world’s second-largest aluminium company RUSAL, which is the…

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved funding for a project which will see 30,500 existing street lights replaced with energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. The project is expected to reduce the cost of street…