By: Staff Writer September 3, 2021 An award winning Jamaican fashion designer started off firefighting to now lighting up the fashion world with dazzling pieces, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Moses…
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US Warns Against Travel To These Caribbean Countries
September 3, 2021 The US State Department and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are urging U.S. travellers not to travel to three Caribbean countries because of the risks…
Social media marketing is beating the COVID-19 economic slump on book sales!
By: Staff Writer August 31, 2021 A Trinidadian author had to up her social media marketing to beat the COVID-19 drag on book sales and it is paying off. Shellyann…
Sunfinity Helps to Spread the Sunshine in Haiti
August 31, 2021 As recent natural disasters, from hurricanes to earthquakes, illustrate, Haiti is an island that faces great challenges – and even basic infrastructure is frequently compromised. But with…
Int’l Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Declares Bahamas “World’s Living Lab” for Bonefish
August 31, 2021 A team of researchers working under the umbrella non-profit Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) this week called The Bahamas “the world’s greatest living laboratory” for the study…
Reggae Great, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, dies
By: Abka Fitz-Henley August 31, 2021 Renowned Jamaican music pioneer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is dead. He died on Sunday morning at the Noel Holmes Hospital in western Jamaica. He had been battling…
CARICOM congratulates Trinidad and Tobago on its 59th Independence Anniversary
August 31, 2021 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of Trinidad and Tobago on the country’s fifty-ninth anniversary of Independence which it celebrates on 31 August…
Statement from Bureau Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
August 31, 2021 The Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in Special Session on Friday 27 August 2021 to discuss the political and humanitarian situation…
Bunji Garlin and FayAnn Lyons headline October Miami Carnival- Same energy, despite COVID-19 concerns
By: Staff Writer August 27, 2021 This year’s 2021 Miami Carnival will be headlined by Bunji Garlin and FayAnn Lyons this coming October as they brave the COVID-19 to have…
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ida to pass Cuba Friday, may strike Gulf Coast as category 2
August 27, 2021 Tropical Storm Ida has formed near Jamaica, and it could threaten Cuba and the Cayman Islands before strengthening into a category 2 hurricane ahead of a Gulf…
Saint James School of Medicine Appoints New Dean of Clinical Sciences
August 27, 2021 Saint James School of Medicine has announced that as of August 1, 2021, Dr. Devang Gujarathi will be the new Dean of Clinical Sciences. Dr. Gujarathi is…