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Government of Canada warns of ‘state of emergency’ in Jamaica

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The Government of Canada has updated the emergency status for Jamaica on a travel advisory due to a continued high level of violent crime. In...

Barbados PM Meets with Regional Private Sector

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Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley has underscored the importance of the regional private sector becoming a type of associate institution of CARICOM, saying it...

Cruise ship in St. Lucia quarantined over confirmed measles case

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A cruise ship with nearly 300 passengers and crew was ordered quarantined in the Caribbean port of St. Lucia - after a case of...

Bermuda gets new weather radar system

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A new $2 million weather radar system was officially launched in Bermuda with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Cooper’s Island in St David’s yesterday. Zane DeSilva,...

Climate change is helping spread a fungus that attacks bananas

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A fungal plant disease from Asia has been spreading across banana-growing areas of Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1960s. New research suggests that...

Guyana listed as world’s fastest growing economy

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The world's second largest stock market NASDAQ, has named Guyana as the fastest growing economy in the world. In a report, NASDAQ said that with...

Barbados PM announces sale of LIAT shares

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The Barbados government on Tuesday night formally announced plans to sell its shares in the cash strapped regional airline, LIAT, but insisted that it...

Regional Government officers discuss risk management

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More than 20 government officers from eight countries, including Jamaica, are attending the Commonwealth Secretariat's three-day Governance and Risk Management Conference at the Jamaica...

Jamaicans warned excessive heat being experienced in the country could be fatal

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Health authorities in Jamaica has issued a warning to nationals to take preventative measures to deal with the excessive heat - noting that the...

Dorian to be retired from Atlantic Tropical Cyclones list

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The name Dorian will never again be used in the Atlantic tropical cyclones list. Dorian joins a list of 90 names dating back to 1954,...
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