By: Staff Writer July 1, 2025 Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Stuart Young will not receive a prime ministerial pension after the government passed legislation blocking persons who…
Category: CARIBBEAN NEWS AND POLITICS
UN: Haiti’s Viv Ansanm gang coalition tops child gang recruitment
By: Staff Writer June 24, 2025 The United Nations Security Council in its “Children and armed conflict report,” points at the Viv Ansanm coalition of gangs as being a key…
James Finies Continues to Urge the UN: Return Bonaire to the Protective List for Justice and Self-Determination
June 24, 2025 James Finies, leader of Pueblo Progresivo Uni, and Davika Bissessar Shaw, President of the Bonaire Human Rights Organization, recently participated in the High-Level Meeting “Justice for Africans…
PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR ATHLETES VIE FOR PRESTIGIOUS CARICOM CHAIRMAN’S CUP IN EIGHTEENTH CARICOM ROAD RACES IN JAMAICA
June 24, 2025 Professional and amateur athletes from the Caribbean will compete in the Eighteenth CARICOM Road Races on Saturday, 5 July, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Open ten-kilometre (10K),…
Youth Engagement at the Forefront: “OECS In the Classroom School Tour” Successfully Completed in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
June 20, 2025 As part of its 44th Anniversary celebrations, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission successfully concluded the 2025 edition of the OECS in the Classroom School…
Jamaica’s Chairmanship of CARICOM to focus on Youth as ‘architects of the future’
June 20, 2025 Jamaica’s six-month chairmanship of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which begins on 1 July 2025, will place emphasis on youth as the architects of the future, Prime Minister…
CBI Countries on Trump’s travel ban list
By: Staff Writer June 17, 2025 The Donald Trump administration is considering banning up to 36 countries from entering into the United States and several of the countries on the…
Bonaire Delegation Meets COPPPAL Leadership in Washington, D.C. to Strengthen Push for Bonaire Self-Determination
June 17, 2025 On the margins of the swearing-in ceremony of Suriname’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Albert Ramdin, as the new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS),…
Moving CSME Forward: Young Professionals Equipped as CSME Ambassadors
June 13, 2025 Twenty-three (23) young professionals from 13 CARICOM Member States are now better equipped to empower youth of the Region in navigating the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) following…
Venezuela and Trinidad trade threats
By: Staff Writer June 10, 2025 The Nicolas Maduro administration in Venezuela has blamed Trinidad of sending mercenaries as an attempt to destabilize the South American country. Venezuelan Justice Minister…
CDB: Females are completing college at double the rate than males
By; Staff Writer June 6, 2025 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in a new study reports that in the region females are more than doubly likely to complete tertiary education…