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Depositors of financial institutions in the British Virgin Islands will be provided protection following the enactment of the Virgin Islands Deposit Insurance Act 2016 (VIDIC) Act The BVI government acknowledged the need to offer some…

Officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States have advanced talks in Washington on several key concerns affecting trade between the US and the region, chief among them being the treat of a lawsuit by US-based NGOs…

Police in Jamaica are being chastised for failing to respect the dead, after a video circulating on social media showed them throwing the body of a man who was killed by officers earlier this month. Read more:…

Child marriage, as it relates to the Hindu and Muslim communities of Trinidad and Tobago, is a law that has been on the books for nearly a century, but of late, there has been public pressure to repeal it. Women's and human rights lobby…

Latin America’s largest airline is the latest carrier to suspend flights to Venezuela. LATAM, which was formed by the merger of Chile’s LAN and Brazilian airline TAM blamed the “difficult macroeconomic scenario” for the move. Read more:…

With yet another voice note warning of terrorist attacks in Trinidad and Tobago – this time in the twin island republic’s schools – Education Minister Anthony Garcia is urging teachers and students not to panic, describing the person…

A new species of snake has been discovered in the Conception Island National Park, a remote part of the southwest Bahamas. The harmless Silver Boa was found during an expedition led by University of North Carolina biologist Dr. Graham…

Tropical Storm Bonnie became the second named tropical system of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season yesterday evening, posing no threat to the Caribbean. But hours later, it weakened to a depression. Read more:…

It’s becoming even more likely that Tropical Storm Bonnie could form in the Atlantic over the weekend. The National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said the area of low pressure northeast of the Bahamas has a 90 per cent chance of developing into a…

Insel Air, the national airline of Curaçao, will begin flying between Guyana and Brazil from July 4. The airline said it will operate three weekly flights between Boa Vista, Brazil, and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana,…

Prime Minister Perry Christie has dismissed as an “absolute lie”, the claim that his government has agreed to sell or grant 500 Bahamian citizenships to Chinese investors connected with the US$3.5 billion Baha Mar project. “Bahamian…

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) will be using social media and other promotional means to go after the 35 million strong African American market. Bartlett said that in addition to booking…

The countries of CARICOM started the process to their separate independence 54 years ago when Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became nominally sovereign states in 1962. Yet, while rightly they have shed colonial rule and assumed control of…

The date for the nomination of candidates ahead of the June 6 general election in St. Lucia has been changed. But no official reason has been given for the decision to hold Nomination Day on May 28, one day later than was announced by…

Venezuela will buy US$50 million in goods from Trinidad and Tobago to help ease the food shortages facing the South American nation. And the twin-island republic has agreed to purchase natural gas from Venezuela. Those were among the…