Regional News
Caymanians go to the polls on April 14th
The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Martyn Roper will be issuing a proclamation to dissolve the Parliament, as the citizens will head to the...
Barbados records 21st CVOID-19 related death
A 79 year old male is the 21st person in Barbados to die with COVID-19.
Following this death, the country’s Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic...
Barbados’ Governor General to take vaccine publicly
Barbados’ Governor General Dame Sandra Mason will publicly take the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine at a date to be announced.
Head of the country’s COVID Communications...
Grenada to start COVID vaccinations next week
Grenada received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines and Health Minister Nickolas Steele said hundreds of frontline workers in the health and tourism sectors...
Opposition parties in Haiti name transitional leader
Haiti’s opposition parties on Monday declared 72-year-old judge Joseph Mecene Jean-Louis the country’s interim leader, a day after an alleged coup plot was foiled,...
COVID-19 put a dent in the Caribbean’s recovery says IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says while Latin America and Caribbean economies managed to bounce back from COVID-19’s initial economic devastation earlier in 2020,...
Barbados records 23 new cases and 27 new recoveries
Barbados recorded 23 new cases of COVID-19. There were also 27 recoveries, bringing the number of active cases to 287.
Of the 20 other cases,...
ECCB To Release EC Polymer Five-Dollar Note By End Of March 2021
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is projecting that the polymer five-dollar note will be released by the end of March.
The ECCB launched its...
Barbados to be ready for vaccine rollout by the end of the month
Barbados will be ready to roll out the first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine late this month.
Co-coordinator of the country’s National COVID-19 vaccination campaign,...
Jamaican extradited after two decades on the run
A Jamaican man accused of killing three people in a vehicular incident in the United States more than 20 years ago, before fleeing to...
