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…
July 6, 2018
26TH MEETING OF THE REGIONAL CULTURAL COMMITTEE (RCC), HELD IN GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
The Twenty-Sixth Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) Meeting convened in Georgetown, Guyana on June 25, 2018 where Directors of Culture throughout the Caribbean were in attendance. Representing the Turks and Caicos Islands Culture Department was…
June 27, 2018
Former Haitian president, coup leader dies
Former Haitian coup leader, Lieutenant General Henri Namphy is dead. Namphy died on Tuesday in the neighbouring Dominican Republic following a battle with lung cancer. Namphy, who lived in exile in the Dominican Republic, headed Haiti's…
June 14, 2018
CDB and PAHO sign agreement to support mental health in aftermath of natural disasters
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have signed an agreement to enhance capacity for mental health and psychosocial support in disaster management in the Caribbean. “Despite the high vulnerability of…
June 14, 2018
C’bean HIV/AIDS stakeholders meet in DomRep
The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) says national AIDS programme managers, civil society organisation, HIV clinicians and social workers, have participated in a face to face knowledge exchange in the Dominican Republic. It…
June 8, 2018
Prime Minister Holness to address G7 meeting in Canada
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness left Jamaica yesterday afternoon for Canada, where he will fulfil a number of official engagements, including attending a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit. The G7 Summit is set for June 8-9 in La Malbaie, in…