May 2, 2016
New report says the number of Caribbean nationals with diabetes has tripled
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report says the number of Caribbean nationals living with diabetes has tripled since 1980, adding that one in 12 inhabitants live with diabetes in the Americas.On Wednesday, the Pan American Health Organization…
April 27, 2016
Torrential Rain Kills Six in Haiti
Torrential rain in the impoverished Haiti killed six people over the weekend, including four children, authorities said yesterday Tuesday. Three of the children — aged two, six and eight — were part of the same family and lost their lives when their…
April 13, 2016
CXC to allow for electronic testing
The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) says it will soon implement electronic testing to allow learners to take their CXC examinations on a computer or electronic device. “This exciting, new initiative is in keeping with CXC’s…
April 13, 2016
Dominica’s First Chief Minister passes away
Franklyn Andrew Baron, 93, who was the first Chief Minister of Dominica, has died. Baron, who was a politician and businessman, died on Saturday 9 April 2016. He leaves to mourn his wife Sybil Baron and children including the Minister for Foreign…
April 6, 2016
SANDALS RESORTS FIRST HIGH STREET STORE OPENS
Sandals Resorts International – operators of Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple resorts across the Caribbean - continues to raise the bar and cement its status as industry leader and innovator with the recent opening of its first ever global…
April 6, 2016
Trinidad defends decision to turn away Jamaican nationals
Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses says 12 Jamaicans were denied into the twin-island republic last month because they were deemed “likely to become charges on public funds”. The group of Jamaicans had accused immigration…
April 6, 2016
Haiti police arrest 35 including five cop killers
The National Police of Haiti (PNH) says law enforcement officials have arrested 35 people including five for the murder of four police officers and three for lynching three disabled women last week. PNH deputy spokesman and the Principal Inspector,…
April 1, 2016
Jamaica equipped to conduct Zika testing for other countries
Jamaica is equipped to conduct Zika virus testing on behalf of other countries if so assigned by the World Health Organization (WHO). Acting Director of the National Virology Reference Laboratory at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI),…
March 17, 2016
Beaches & Sandals Takes Aim at Engineering Graduates
Sandals Resorts International (SRI) remains committed to human resource development and has launched its latest drive to unearth bright young stars through its Management Trainee Programme (MTP). This time around however, the Luxury-Included®…
March 16, 2016
Policeman in Trinidad to stand trial for trafficking Colombian women
In Trinidad and Tobago’s first human trafficking case, a 55-year-old suspended police officer has been committed to stand trial on 13 charges of human trafficking and prostitution. Constable Valentine Eastman was yesterday found to have a case to…