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Five dead on Abaco
At least five deaths have been confirmed on Abaco following the passage of Hurricane Dorian, which brought catastrophic winds and destructive flooding to that island yesterday and continued to pound Grand Bahama today, Prime Minister Dr.…
Inventive Cubans beat infernal heat with mobile pool
Children play wildly around a tractor in the El Infernal neighborhood in the province of Pinar del Rio, part of Cuba’s renowned tobacco-growing zone.
CARPHA Member States Receive Training to Aid Mosquito Surveillance and Control
Outbreaks of Zika in 2016 and Chikungunya in 2014, have highlighted the need to use advanced technologies to collect and review data, in order to prevent and respond to epidemics in a timely manner. Applying these technologies allow…
Police kill man who held bus passengers hostage in Rio
Brandishing a fake gun, a man on Tuesday took dozens of hostages on a bus in Brazil and threatened to set the vehicle on fire with gasoline before police shot him dead in a four-hour standoff broadcast live on television.
Professor Stafford Griffith appointed as interim pro-vice-chancellor and principal of UWI’s…
The University of the West Indies (the UWI) has appointed Professor Stafford A Griffith as interim pro-vice-chancellor and principal of its Five Islands Campus located in Antigua and Barbuda, with effect from August 15, 2019 until July 31,…
Belize, Jamaica, Cuba sweep Caribbean Media Awards
Media houses from Belize and Jamaica swept most of the awards at the 2018 Caribbean Media Awards presented during the 50th Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) General assembly here on Tuesday night.
Plastic Recycling Project ‘RePLAST OECS’ Launches in Saint Lucia
Environmental stakeholders from the public and private sectors in Saint Lucia lent their support and expertise towards the successful launch and two-day workshop for the RePLAST OECS project – an initiative that seeks to create a…
South-South cooperation will allow for strengthening beekeeping in the Caribbean based on…
IICA will coordinate a project aimed at increasing honey production in Caribbean countries, using a new variety of beehives.
Barbados reverses visa-free access for Haitians
A year after scrapping visa requirements for Haitians, the Barbados government has reversed its decision.
Jamaican man gets 21 years in US prison for smuggling people
A Jamaican man has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison in the United States for running a human smuggling operation.
CARICOM Day Reception at the United Nations a Marked Success
Ambassadors, Delegates, Staff and Friends of CARICOM gathered in the Sputnik Area of the United Nations Headquarters on Monday July 1, 2019, for a Caribbean style Reception in celebration of CARICOM Day. This was a commendable initiative…
Guyana President and Opposition Leader to Meet on CCJ Ruling
Guyana's President David Granger has invited Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to meet with him to discuss the political situation in Guyana resulting from last week’s decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that the no-confidence…
Caribbean Countries Ensure Insurance Coverage For 2019 Hurricane Season
Caribbean members of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) have completed the selection of their insurance portfolio for 2019/20, with nine governments increasing their level of coverage…
Communiqué of the 67th Meeting of the OECS Authority
The Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the OECS Authority was held at the Royalton Antigua Resort and Spa, Antigua and Barbuda, on June 18th 2019, under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
Villagers—Land grabbing, drug, human trafficking in Carapichaima
There is said to be an “invasion” of Colombians and Venezuelans at Brickfield in Carapichaima which are causing grave concerns by villagers who are claiming that illegal activities are on a rampant increase including…