New IDB Publication Focuses on Closing the Gender Gaps in the World of Work

October 1, 2021 The publication performs a diagnosis of gender gaps in Central America, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic and makes recommendations on how to boost female participation at…

IDB Invest Partners with GBTI to Boost its Trade Finance Program

October 1, 2021 IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, has incorporated Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) into its Trade Finance Facilitation Program (TFFP) through a guarantee…

El Salvador will Increase Access to Credit for Social Housing with Funding from the IDB

October 1, 2021 The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $50 million loan for a program to reduce El Salvador’s housing deficit by providing loans for the purchase of…

Digicel Builds Deep Blue One Subsea Cable Connecting French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago.

October 1, 2021 Digicel is making a significant investment in international submarine capacity with the build of its Deep Blue One subsea cable and has signed a partnership agreement with…

CDB President calls for strengthening social resilience to place the Caribbean on a sustainable welfare path

October 1, 2021 The President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Gene Leon, urged the region to take bold and innovative steps to surmount the significant development challenges that…

EDITORIAL: Mia Mottley has the naughty bits that men are supposed to have!

September 28, 2021 Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, went up to the United Nations General Assembly and gave them an earful on what the large nations and that very…

VIDEO: Devotions led by Archdeacon Keith Cartwright

September 28, 2021 Devotions led by the Venerable Keith N Cartwright of St Agnes Parish Grants Town, New Providence Bahamas. Archdeacon of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Southern…

COMMENTARY: The power of a picture!

By Jean Hervé Charles The drama of Haitian migrants under the international bridge camping like refugees after an earthquake did raise some eyebrows. Will Joe Biden order the prompt deportation…

HURRICANE UPDATE: Sam had weakened but strengthened again!

By: Staff Writer September 28, 2021 Hurricane Sam is hovering near the Leeward Islands and is picking up strength again says the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) and will pass by…

Mia Mottley, represents voice of the Caribbean at UN General Meeting

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Her voice is being touted as the Prime Minister of the Caribbean and even the world, following her address to the 76th Session of the United…

Will anyone be held accountable for TT National Gas Company loss of over US$100M ?

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com As Trinidad and Tobago gets set to hear its seventh consecutive National Budget from the People’s National Movement led Government on October 4th, where it is…

A Call for urgent action to save the Naparima Bowl, South Trinidad’s premier theatre.

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Entertainment in South Trinidad has always been the Naparima Bowl. From its establishment in 1962, this facility has welcomed dancing troupes from parts of India, Africa…