Regional

For the first time, students from Guyana have copped more Regional Top Awards at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) than students from Trinidad and Tobago. This year, students from Guyana copped three of the awards, while…

The system in the Caribbean that forecasters have been monitoring over the past few days still has a chance of developing into a tropical depression and then Tropical Storm Philippe. But if it doesn’t by the middle of this week, that storm…

Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne electrified a gathering of representatives of international agencies and governments in Washington DC on Saturday by reproaching developed states for undermining the development of small…

Bridgetown, Barbados, October 12, 2017 – Regional bank CIBC FirstCaribbean has seen an increase in its overall support for charitable causes across the English and Dutch Caribbean, according to its latest Social Annual Report. The…

Bahamian authorities are still trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of an American couple who reportedly arrived in Grand Bahama but never made it to their honeymoon on the island of Rum Cay. According to family…

With the looming return of close to 60,000 Haitians in a few months, the Jovenel Moise administration has sent an urgent appeal to Washington to pull back its plan to send home Haitians currently living in the United States under Temporary…

Several schoolboys are facing disciplinary action after carrying out blatant acts of bullying at a secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago. The incidents, which included robbery and assault, came to light after videos of the acts were…

The son of the Jamaican woman who was, up until she died last month, the world’s oldest person, created more controversy surrounding the super centenarian as he used her thanksgiving service to launch a scathing attack on Jamaicans who have…

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The detrimental effect of climate change on the Region was brought in to sharp focus as a special Meeting of Agriculture Ministers got underway at the Caribbean Community…

Another tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic basin, but forecasters say it currently poses no threat to the Caribbean. Ophelia was named this morning in the National Hurricane Centre’s (NHC) 11 a.m. bulletin, when it said a tropical…

After closing its doors at the height of controversy in December last year, Buccament Bay Resort in St Vincent and the Grenadines, could be back in business in early 2018. The revelation has come from Minister of Tourism Ces McKie, who…

Hurricanes Maria and Irma wreaked havoc on LIAT’s already scarce financial resources and the airline’s Chief Executive Officer Julie Reifer-Jones has called for financial relief for the cash-strapped carrier. “Frankly, the discussions…

JetBlue, the largest airline in Puerto Rico, in partnership with Atlas Air Worldwide transported more than 110 tons of much needed supplies to Puerto Rico to aid in relief and recovery efforts. It was part of JetBlue commitment to launch…

FLORIDA, United States, Saturday October 7, 2017 – More than 40 islands visited by cruise ships on Caribbean itineraries have a message they want to share: They are open, fully operational, welcoming ships full of cruise passengers and…

A four-hour visit by US President Donald Trump to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday, when he met storm victims and federal and local officials, and also helped to distribute relief items such as rolls of paper towels, has been described as…