Outgoing Bahamas PM concedes before half of the votes counted in massive rejection on Election Day!
By: Staff Writer September 17, 2021 It was a sweeping landslide victory for the incoming Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) led by its leader Philip “Brave” Davis as they ousted the…
CMP Columnist details new book: Haiti is a microcosm of the world!
By: Staff Writer September 17, 2021 Caribbean literature is seeing a renaissance in this COVID-19 era as new and not so new authors are offering up gem after gem of…
Tea maker is tapping into the local Bahamian market for now- Exports and online sales will come!
By: Staff Writer September 17, 2021 A Bahamian tea manufacturer is just focusing on the local market now as the exports will come in time. Ryan Winters, owner/operator of BahaLeaf…
AES Announces Acquisition of 49.9% Stake in AES Colón
September 17, 2021 The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) today announced the acquisition of a 49.9% stake in AES Colón from Inversiones Bahia, Ltd., increasing its ownership to 100% of AES Colón. AES…
CDB trains local government officials to increase public spending effectiveness
September 17, 2021 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has today launched a series of training workshops to enhance the resource mobilisation skills of public officials responsible for accounting and reporting.…
Honduras IMF Staff Report
September 17, 2021 In the context of the Fourth Reviews Under the Stand-by Arrangement and the Arrangement Under the Standby Credit Facility, Requests for Augmentation of Access, Extension and Rephasing…
KaJ Labs, a Seattle Startup, Pledges to Gift 6,000 Bitcoin ($270M) to El Salvador & Other Nations Adopting Bitcoin as Legal Tender, LITHO Utility Token Launch
September 17, 2021 El Salvador is the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Now Joel Kasr, founder of KaJ Labs and Lithosphere, has pledged to gift 6,000…
Rape Laws Across the Americas Insufficient, Inconsistent, and Poorly Enforced, Leaving Women at Heightened Risk of Sexual Violence
September 17, 2021 A new report by international human rights organization Equality Now reveals how rape laws across the Americas are insufficient, inconsistent, and not systematically enforced, and put women, adolescents, and…
OKY Announces Strategic Alliance With Suzuki Guatemala
September 17, 2021 Suzuki joins more than 100 brands already providing products and services to OKY users in the United States and throughout Latin America OKY, a cross-border e-commerce fintech…
EDITORIAL: Thoughts and prayers with the USA on the 9/11 anniversary!
September 14, 2021 Prayers goes out to our US neighbours who had to endure the shock and horror of the 9/11 terrorists attacks some 20 years ago. It has been…
VIDEO: Devotions by Fr Kari Marcelle
September 14, 2021 Morning Devotions led by Fr. Kari Marcelle, Rector of St. Pauls’ Parish, Long Island, The Bahamas
COMMENTARY: The Caribbean’s ‘big fish small fish’ problem
By: David Jessop September 14, 2021 Some years ago, the then prime minister of Barbados, the late Owen Arthur, told me that unless regional leaders could agree on how to…