By: Staff Writer June 21, 2022 Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, said at a joint press conference with the International Monetary Fund’s managing director that without the fund Barbados…
Category: CARIBBEAN NEWS AND POLITICS
To Protect Our Future, Caribbean Nations Must Fight Harmful Fisheries Subsidies
June 21, 2022 For generations, fishing and our relationship to the ocean have shaped the cultural heritage of our home nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and…
World Bank approves $20m to support primary health care service delivery in Haiti
June 21, 2022 The Board of Directors of the World Bank on Thursday approved additional financing of $20 million for the Project to Strengthen Primary Health Care and Surveillance in…
CDB changes methodology in its RDA policy
By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com June 17, 2022 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it will now include an “Internal Resistance Framework (IRA) into its heavily touted Recovery Duration Adjuster, RDA…
Cuba’s Diaz-Canel: YOU WON’T DEPRIVE US OF OUR VOICE!
By: Staff Writer June 14, 2022 Cuba was not invited to last week’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, but that didn’t mean that the country would not have…
Hurricane center watches possible Caribbean tropical system
By Roger Simmons Orlando Sentinel June 14, 2022 The US National Hurricane Center forecasters are keeping an eye out for a tropical system that could develop later this week over the…
DOMINICA TO HOST WEST INDIES v BANGLADESH T20I CRICKET ON JULY 2nd and 3rd, 2022
June 14, 2022 Dominica is delighted to announce the return of International Cricket at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium for the first time since May 2017, with two back-to-back games starting…
OAS to Observe Grenada’s June 23 General Elections
June 10, 2022 The Organization of American States (OAS) will observe the June 23 general elections in Grenada, following an agreement signed by the Secretary General of the hemispheric institution,…
Dominican Republic cabinet minister killed in office
June 7, 2022 The Dominican Republic’s minister of the environment and natural resources — the son of a former president — was shot to death in his office by a…
Global energy transition for the Caribbean’s survival!
By: Staff Writer June 7, 2022 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) director of projects says that the private sector needs to get more involved in the energy transition for the…