February 20, 2024 During the Spring Festival, eight overseas students from Grenada, the southernmost island country in the Windward Islands of the East Caribbean, visited the Yangjiashanli Rural Revitalization Demonstration Area in Shandong’s Qingdao to experience…
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Venezuela readies military while Guyana signs new oil contracts
By: Staff Writer February 16, 2024 Venezuela has been building up military personnel at the border with Guyana amid the ongoing dispute over the Essequibo region. The Venezuelan government also…
March FAO forum must deal frontally with Caribbean food security initiative
February 16, 2024 With the March 18-21 staging in Guyana of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 38th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC38), the…
Tobago oil spill ship may be from Venezuela-Crew VANISHED!
By: Staff Writer February 13, 2024 Investigators and search teams are combing the site where the mystery ship that spilled hundreds of gallons of oil off of the coast of…
Revision of Bonaire’s WOLBES and FINBES – another Dutch colonial reform supported by Bonaire island council?
February 13, 2024 Because of BHRO – Bonaire Life Matters International awareness campaign, spanning from February 2022 to October 2023, has yielded significant impacts and results. These efforts have compelled…
ECTEL Appoints a New Managing Director
February 9, 2024 Wednesday, February 7, 2024 — Mr. David A. Cox is the newly appointed Managing Director of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL). His appointment took place on…
CDB Supporting Regional Food Security Thrust and Agri-Trade in Guyana
February 9, 2024 The Caribbean is one of the major food importers paying close to USD 6 billion for 80% of its food imports. While there is latent capacity within…
CARICOM Secretary-General Congratulates Grenada on Golden Independence Anniversary
February 5, 2024 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Export Development of Grenada and has the honour to request that…
Kenyan president: Haiti mission to proceed despite court order
By: Staff Writer February 2, 2024 Kenya is pushing ahead with plans to lead a U.N.-approved security mission to Haiti, despite a court in Nairobi last week blocking the deployment,…
Caribbean Matters: The fight against Black hair discrimination meets the Puerto Rican Senate
February 2, 2024 We’ve all seen the stories by now: Black students are punished for their hair again and again, while Black men and Black women encounter bias in the workplace when the hair that grows from their…
Barbudans launch new environmental legal fight in Caribbean against wealthy developers
February 2, 2024 Construction of two private villas inside a national park in Barbuda has sparked the latest environmental legal fight between angry residents and wealthy foreigners seeking to develop…