January 4, 2022
CARICOM condemns attack on Haiti’s Prime Minister
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has condemned the armed attack on the Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, and his delegation of high officials in the city of Gonaives on New Year's Day, during the traditional ceremony commemorating the 218th…
January 4, 2022
Political leaders confident of victory in Barbados
Leaders of the two main political parties here on Monday remained confident of victory in the January 19 general elections as candidates were nominated to contest the snap election that Prime Minister Mia Mottley called 18 months ahead of the…
December 30, 2021
Barbados confirms first case of Omicron variant
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth George Thursday evening disclosed that Barbados has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Health authorities here received confirmation from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)…
December 29, 2021
WTO official says Caribbean could be site for medical production
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Wednesday said the Caribbean could serve as a production site for goods such as vaccines and that efforts are being made to get manufacturers to invest in the…
December 29, 2021
Opposition party angry at the Barbadian Prime Minister
The main opposition Democratic labour Party (DLP) has blamed a non-caring Prime Minister Mia Mottley for calling a snap general election in the midst of a pandemic and urged supporters to boot the ruling Barbados labour Party (BLP) out of office on…
December 20, 2021
CCCCC says COP 26 outcome puts more pressure on CARICOM’s position on global warming
The Belize based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) says the decisions reached at United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow last month “only afford a very narrow window of opportunity” to keep the Caribbean…
December 17, 2021
UN urges no school closures despite rise in Omicron cases
The Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, Friday said that despite the rise of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, “nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever…
December 15, 2021
Supermarkets say they will not adopt “safe zone’ initiative
The Supermarket Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT) Wednesday said its members will not be adopting the ‘safe zone’ initiative that was rolled out by the government as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19)…
December 15, 2021
The people of Port Au Prince experience a deadly explosion
Prime Minister Ariel Henry has declared three days of national mourning after a tanker truck loaded with fuel exploded on Monday night, killing several people. “I learned, with desolation and emotion, the sad news of the explosion, last night, in…
December 13, 2021
Government says four parties interested in oil refinery
The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday said at least “four interested parties” have shown interest in acquiring the oil refinery of the state-owned Petrotrin company, a few months after it announced a decision to return to the open market to seek…