June 3, 2018
IMF To Rescue Barbados Economy
WASHINGTON, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will be sending a delegation to Barbados on Tuesday to assist the island in its plans for revitalising the ailing economy. Prime Minister Mia Mottley has already indicated that her…
April 24, 2018
Cuban President Raul Castro to step down
Cuban President Raul Castro steps down Thursday, passing the baton to a new generation in a transition that brings to a close the Castro brothers' six-decade grip on power. "We have come a long way... so that our children, those of the present and…
April 16, 2018
Canada pulls families of diplomats out of Cuba over mysterious illness
Canada announced Monday it was bringing home the families of its diplomats in Cuba, after a year-long investigation into a mysterious illness afflicting Canadian and US officials failed to reveal a cause. The number of Canadian envoys and family…
April 12, 2018
USD65.5mn rehabilitation and reconstruction project launches in the British Virgin Islands
April 12, 2018, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has launched a Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which will assist the country in recovering from the effects of Hurricane Irma.…
April 9, 2018
St Lucia PM worried about ongoing situation in Venezuela
The St Lucia government on Monday said it remains 'extremely concerned' about the ongoing political and economic situation in Venezuela after Trinidad and Tobago reported that a number of Venezuelans were entering the oil-rich twin island republic…
April 5, 2018
PAHO calls for breaking down barriers that keep one in three people in the Americas from accessing health
On the eve of World Health Day, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, and former president of Chile Michelle Bachelet today called for collective actions to ensure that all people, everywhere have access to…
March 28, 2018
Haiti installs leaders of reborn army
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moise on Tuesday installed the leaders of his country's army, a symbolic step in the impoverished Caribbean country's reformation of a military demobilised 23 years ago after decades of coups…
March 16, 2018
NATIONAL AIDS PROGRAMME MANAGERS, CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS COMMIT TO SUPPORT COUNTRY OWNERSHIP FOR HIV RESPONSE SUSTAINABILITY
The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean's response to the HIV epidemic, concluded the Sixth Meeting of National AIDS Programme (NAP) Managers and Key…
March 2, 2018
Racist’s Name Stripped from Hall of Residence at UWI St Augustine Campus
The oldest Halls of Residence at the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) St Augustine Campus, has officially dropped the name of a racist British Colonial Governor in South Africa.What was once Milner Hall of Residence, named after Lord Alfred…
February 16, 2018
Cuba prepares to end dual currency
For more than two decades, Cubans have used a unique dual currency system to protect a fragile economy, but with just weeks of his mandate remaining, President Raul Castro has signalled that much-delayed change is finally coming. Plans to scrap the…