PANCAP MEETING OPENS WITH CALL TO SUSTAIN HIV RESPONSE AS PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS ARE CHALLENGED WITH COVID-19
June 4, 2021 The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, commenced the…
Statement from the OAS General Secretariat on the Request for the Disqualification of Cristiana Chamorro in Nicaragua
June 4, 2021 The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) rejects the process of disqualification of the political candidacy of Cristiana Chamorro in Nicaragua. Nicaragua is heading…
Nicaraguan government arrests opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro
By Ismael López Ocampo and Mary Beth Sheridan June 4, 2021 Police on Wednesday arrested Cristiana Chamorro, the leading opposition candidate for president, in the latest in a string of…
Latin America trade recovers from pandemic impacts
June 4, 2021 The value of exports from Latin America grew 8.9 percent in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same period in the previous year, consolidating a…
CARICOM SG calls for fairness in international financing for SIDs
June 4, 2021 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has made a call for fairness in international financing for Small Island Developing States (SIDs), noting that they have been…
Be more strategic, press on urgently with CARICOM Single Market and Economy – Trade Ministers advised
June 4, 2021 The Organs of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must move with a greater sense of urgency and clarity of purpose if the Region is to successfully navigate the…
EDITORIAL: The Chinese are at it again, another virus!
In case you did not hear about it already, China has uncovered another deadly virus that can affect humans. This time it’s the H10N3. A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern…
VIDEO: Devotions led by Fr Ruel Strachan
June 1, 2021 Morning Devotions led by Father Ruel Strachan 11 of St Agnes Church. Grants Town New Providence.
Erotic poems are in the bible and will be a topic of a workshop at the CARICON.
By: Staff Writer June 1, 2021 A Florida International University (FIU) professor will be hosting an erotic poetry workshop at the June 4-6 Caribbean Literary Conference (CARICON), something she knows…
CEDA head seeking transformation in “green economy” and “digitalisation” as his mandate- “Ramping up” in tourism and music industries for 2021.
By: Staff Writer June 1, 2021 The executive director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) says that he is seeking a transformation in the green economy and the digitalisation…
Meet Bahamian artist Dyah Neilson
By Diane Phillips June 1, 2021 Some artists live to paint. Dyah Neilson lives amidst her paintings. To get to a drawer for a t-shirt, she has to shuffle past art…