July 23, 2018
CIBC First Caribbean Wins Most Innovative Bank Award
Less than two months after releasing enhancements to its Mobile App and Online Banking, CIBC First Caribbean has been named the Most Innovative Bank in the region at the prestigious World Finance Banking Awards presented by UK-based World Finance…
July 23, 2018
CDB and Partners Kick off Project to Support Micro and Small Enterprises in Haiti
A project has been launched to give female and male entrepreneurs in Haiti better opportunities to grow their businesses. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Inter-American Development Bank, Global Affairs Canada and Desjardins International (DID)…
July 20, 2018
Jamaica to Invite Thai boys and coach on free vacation
The Government will be inviting the 12 boys from a youth football team in Thailand and their coach who were recently rescued from a flooded cave to vacation in the island with all expenses paid. Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett said he “couldn’t…
July 17, 2018
Shark bites Instagram model posing in the Bahamas
Regional News 12th July 2018 When Instagram model Katarine Zarutskie waded in the crystal blue of Staniel Cay in the Bahamas to join the sharks, one clamped it jaws onto her arm and pulled her underwater. "All of a sudden it felt like 15 people were…
July 17, 2018
Nassau man tragically dies by lightning strike
Royal Bahamas Police Force has reported that a man was found deceased on Goodman’s Bay Beach. The man had apparently been setting up for an event to be held on the beach park when he was struck by lightning. Police were, quick to add that…
July 17, 2018
Haitian Migrants Charged before Courts in the Bahamas
A total of 46 Haitian migrants were charged before the courts in Nassau after they were apprehended in Bahamian waters on Tuesday past by members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. The migrants, (38 males, 8 females) all pleaded guilty to illegal…
July 17, 2018
Rotary International president chosen from Caribbean region
Barry Rassin of the Rotary Club of East Nassau in New Providence, Bahamas, became the president of the Rotary International this month. He is the first Rotary International president to be selected from his home district 7020, which also includes…
July 17, 2018
UWI Proposes Law School For Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- The principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus has put forward a proposal to have a law school established in Barbados. And Professor Eudine Barri-teau plans to go as far as Prime Minister Mia Mottley…
July 17, 2018
CDB to construct new office building in Barbados
July 11th, 2018, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced that it will construct a new office building in Barbados, redeveloping the current site of its headquarters at Wildey, St. Michael. The project, approved by…
July 15, 2018
Haiti prime minister resigns after deadly unrest
Embattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned today following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices. "I submitted my resignation to the president of the republic," who has "accepted my…