CDB Implements Collaboration with CLEAR-LAC to Strengthen Caribbean Evaluation and M&E Systems

October 24, 2025 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB / the Bank), through its Office of Independent Evaluation (OIE), signed an agreement with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC-Chile), host of the Center…

CDB Calls for Urgent Investment in Irrigation to Boost Caribbean Food Security

October 24, 2025 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB, the Bank) has reaffirmed its commitment to enhancing food and income security across the region through sustainable irrigation investments. Speaking at the…

CDB Awards USD 100,000 Grant to Trinidad and Tobago Firm to Develop Caribbean Stock Photography Platform

October 25, 2025 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB, the Bank), through its Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF), has awarded a USD 100,000 grant to NativeFoto Ltd., a Trinidad & Tobago-based creative enterprise,…

Statement on the Urgent Renewal of the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) and Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Acts

October 24, 2025  CARICOM Heads of Government have called for the urgent renewal of the Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Enhancement for Haitian Prosperity (HOPE) and Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP)…

CARICOM Declaration on the Tenth Anniversary of the Paris Agreement and COP 30

October 24, 2025 Adopted Thursday, 16 October 2025 by the Forty-First Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community We, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean…

EDITORIAL: Trump and Petro should box

October 21, 2025 Yes. We said it. US president Donald Trump and Colombian president Gustavo Petro should step into the ring and box. The war of words, while amusing, will…

AUDIO: Devotions Rev’d Allison Dean

October 21, 2025 Devotions from the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands led by Reverend Allison Dean of St. Luke’s Parish South Eleuthera.

COMMENTARY: A New World Order — or the formal admission of the Old?

By: Sir Ronald Sanders October 21, 2025 The world has long spoken of a “rules-based order,” as though the law itself held dominion over power. Yet, behind the diplomatic courtesies…

ECLAC: 60% of LAC energy from renewables

By: Staff Writer October 21, 2026 The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in a recent report that 60 percent of the  Latin American and Caribbean…

Trump calls Colombia’s Petro an illegal drug dealer

By: Staff Writer October 21, 2025 The war of words between US president Donald Trump and Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro is heating up with Trump calling Petro an “illegal drug…

THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GRENADIAN TRAILBLAZER, POLITICAL ACTIVIST,  SENATOR NEILON FRANKLYN

By Helen Grenade  October 21, 2025 Many political figures from Grenada and throughout the world,  have been poisoned over the years and there’s those who believe the attacks or the…

CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say

October 21, 2025 The Central Intelligence Agency is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out the controversial lethal airstrikes by the Trump administration against small, fast-going boats…