By Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com February 21, 2023 Its Carnival weekend in Trinidad and Tobago, and the air is buzzed with activity across the island, marking a return to the mas,…
Category: CARIBBEAN NEWS AND POLITICS
CARICOM leaders double down on reparations!
By: Staff Writer February 28, 2023 During the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Nassau, Bahamas last week, Caribbean leaders doubled down on their call for reparations for the region…
Canada announces multi-million-dollar humanitarian support to Haiti, regional security
February 21, 2023 Canada’s Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau has announced a $10 million dollar support to the International Office on Migration (OIM) to strengthen the protection and resilience…
Strong CARICOM-Canada solidarity on Haiti
February 21, 2023 Solidarity is strong between Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Canada to help foster solutions to the crisis in Haiti. Addressing the 44th CARICOM Summit as a special guest…
Canadian PM Highlights “crisis” in Haiti, sends in Navy
By: Staff Writer February 17, 2023 The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau highlights the humanitarian crisis in Haiti and pledges the send in the Navy to conduct “surveillance” and…
SKN PM hits “elephant in the room” on intra-Caribbean travel
By: Staff Writer February 17, 2023 The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis stressed the importance of tackling the “elephant in the room” on inter-Caribbean travel as pivotal to…
Forcing T&T to grapple with the Kings and Queens Carnival phenomenon.
By: Staff Writer February 14, 2023 A respected Trinidadian cultural activist is preserving the heroes of Trinidad through the Pantheon 2023 Exhibition on the King and Queen Costume Tradition in…
St Martin looking to exterminate green monkeys!
By: Staff Writer February 14, 2023 Officials on the French side of Saint-Martin are seeking ways to battle the invasive of green “vervet” monkeys, weeks after the Dutch Sint Maarten…
The PJ Patterson Institute for Advocacy seeing importance in trading with Africa!
By: Staff Writer February 10, 2023 A former Prime Minister of Jamaica is high on facilitating trade with Africa and is more than willing to use his eponymous institute to…
‘Much to be proud of’ – CARICOM SG on Grenada’s 49th Independence anniversary
February 10, 2023 CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, has extended “heartfelt congratulations” to the government and people of Grenada on the occasion of the country’s 49th Independence anniversary. In her…
Haiti Gangs Embrace Political and Police Chaos
By: InsightCrime February 7, 2023 Haiti’s Acting Prime Minister landed in the capital after a foreign trip to be greeted by police rioting, diminishing political credibility, ever-stronger gangs, and no…