400 years ago, in August 1619, the first ship with enslaved Africans destined for the United States arrived in what was then the colony of Virginia. But, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, the cruel history […]
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2020 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today the regional Caribbean Digital Transformation Project for a total of US$94 million for four Eastern Caribbean countries: Dominica (US$28 million), Grenada […]
Barbados needs to pay greater attention to investing in digitising various government agencies so that they can adequately support local entrepreneurs in a digital economy. That’s the view of Tara Frater, Principal […]
Students in primary schools across the nation may not be able to write the Grade Six National Assessment tests in June, while the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) exams scheduled for May/June […]
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has the only CARICOM regional reference laboratory accredited to test for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and also the only laboratory that can confirm positive or negative results in […]
BARBADOS and other tourism dependent economies in the Caribbean could be hard hit if there is a widespread global recession brought on by the Covid-19 virus. This is the view of Economist […]
Three cases of the feared coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in the French island of St. Barthélemy (St. Barts) and French Saint Martin, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported. The cases were […]
he Covon-19 corona virus, which has spread from China all over the world, is also a threat to the Caribbean region. That is what Caricom leaders say after their interim summit on Tuesday […]
The ongoing political crises in Haiti and Venezuela is a pressing concern and Prime Minister of St. Lucia and former Chairman of Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Allen Chastanet contended that the region needed […]
Jamaicans and other English-speaking Caribbean people with specific high-value skills may benefit from a windfall of job opportunities in the United Kingdom as the Boris Johnson administration announced a policy shift that […]
