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(PRESS RELEASE) – The first cohort of Caribbean nurses undergoing specialist training to care for kids with cancer and blood disorders have all successfully completed the first semester. Thirteen nurses from Barbados, The Bahamas,…

By executive order, US Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp has taken major steps to reduce the cost of government operations, given that cash revenues flowing into the treasury are insufficient to meet current expenses. Noting that the…

Grenada’s notoriously litigious prime minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, is now himself on the receiving end of a defamation claim made by Senator Nazim Burke. In a letter dated January 30, 2017, to Mitchell, lawyers acting for Burke asserted…

Today was the first full day of business at St Vincent’s “bridge to the world”, the new Argyle International Airport, following an official opening yesterday. Excited Vincentians flocked to the facility to get a glimpse of the first…

Antigua’s Opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) has formally given the boot to Member of Parliament Joanne Massiah almost a month after the outspoken politician publicly turned her back on the party. The UPP announced Massiah’s…

In a recent press statement, the Grand Bahama Human Rights Association (GBHRA) claimed that Bahamas foreign minister Fred Mitchell’s “reckless attacks” on renowned human rights activists are threatening the country’s good name…

On Thursday, February 9, the government of Antigua and Barbuda officially launched a road rehabilitation project to upgrade the Sir George Walter Highway and Friars Hill Road. The project is being funded through a grant of GBP13.9 million…

The Antigua and Barbuda Financial Services Regulatory Commission, in exercise of its powers under the law has removed three of the directors from the board of Meinl Bank (Antigua) Ltd and appointed Cleveland Seaforth, managing partner, KPMG…

The citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme of Dominica is bringing investors into the island state, creating jobs and helping to restore the damage caused by Tropical Storm Erika in 2015. That’s the message from government and industry…

While Trinidad and Tobago may be outside the usual hurricane belt, unlike many of its Caribbean neighbours that frequently get hit by tropical cyclones, the twin island republic does have its own storm of violent crime to contend with on a…

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in a national address on Wednesday night that Dominicans were eagerly anticipating, did not mince words when he accused the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) and Dominica Freedom Party (DFP) of…

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba have reached agreement for the expansion of preferential access to each other’s markets. The agreement was reached at the 10th Meeting of the Joint Commission Established Under the Trade and…

Tobacco control legislation is critical to reduce diseases that are the leading causes of death in Guyana, said the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) during an official visit to the country this week.…

Regional airline LIAT has announced the first causalities of its route cuts. The Antigua-based airline said in a statement that, “as part of its efforts to achieve greater profitability and improve efficiency”, it would stop servicing…

Haiti officially has a new elected president. Jovenel Moise was installed this morning as the French speaking nation’s 58th president in a brief ceremony that was attended by former President Michel Martelly, as well as Caribbean and…