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Building on the increase in stay-over arrivals last year, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Department of Tourism has entered the winter season with a strong sales, marketing, advertising and public relations charge. Commissioner of Tourism…

A Hyatt Place hotel is expected to open in the Aruba Airport Business Center in Oranjestad next year. The 116-room hotel will be the first Hyatt Place hotel in Aruba, adjacent to the Reina Beatrix International Airport. Read more:…

Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie is facing criticism after he flipped the bird during a fiery speech at a political meeting of his ruling Progressive Liberal Party. A pumped up Christie made the uncharacteristic gesture while…

Virgin Atlantic is set to launch the only direct flight from London Heathrow to Barbados. The new, twice weekly service will launch on December 12, 2017 to help make Christmas in the Caribbean a reality for even more holidaymakers.…

The Caribbean has once again taken a prominent position in TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards 2017, with Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos (TCI) copping the second spot, and the region bagging four of the top 10 picks and another six in…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Governor of the Barbados central bank, Dr DeLisle Worrell, was on Friday “relieved of his duties” by minister of finance and economic affairs, Christopher Sinckler. The bank’s board of directors, at a specially…

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Friday February 24, 2017 – A man not known in political circles has been chosen by Haitian President Jovenel Moïse to be the country’s new Prime Minister. Moïse said he and the heads of both chambers of parliament…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Barbados health authorities have dismissed as untrue a report on social media that a 10-year-old boy was infected with the HIV virus after eating pineapple purchased from a vendor who was himself infected.…

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -- Grenada’s governor-general, Dame Cécile La Grenade, has revoked the appointments of seven of the 15 constituency returning officers and deputy supervisor of elections Ada Holder has reportedly resigned in protest.…

An American man who eluded law enforcement authorities in the US for more than a decade, was nabbed in Jamaica last week. Keemeit Melaun Hand, who fled Atlanta, Georgia where he faced cocaine distribution charges, was apprehended during…

Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley got a surprise calls from American President Donald Trump during which the leader of the twin-island republic was invited to Washington. Although not much was disclosed about the…

It’s back to the law courts today for embattled Barbados Central Bank Governor Dr Delisle Worrell after receiving a 48-hour reprieve from the High Court on Wednesday to prevent his removal by Finance Minister Chris Sinckler. An upbeat…

Jamaican police are warning that the mischievous use of obscene images on social media is no light matter, and that offenders will face the full weight of the law. Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers told the Jamaica…

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must expedite the full implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). This was the charge president of Guyana, David Granger, issued to heads of government and delegates at the opening…

The citizenship-by-investment (CBI) program has been a life-saver for the people of Dominica – without it, the country would have struggled to recover from Tropical Storm Erika. That was the message from Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit,…