Regional News
IMF Predicts Moderate Growth In The OECS
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says growth has recovered strongly in 2018-19 in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) but is set to moderate,...
CARICOM calls for elimination of roaming charges across region
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ministers with responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies ICT - have agreed to collectively approach the region's telecommunications providers to eliminate...
Border Leak Leaving Trinidad Exposed
Trinidad’s maritime border with Venezuela continues to be breached with ease, with an unknown number of undocumented Venezuelans coming ashore and blending into the...
Sagicor Financial Company Limited commits US$1M aid to fight against COVID-19
Sagicor Financial Company Limited announced today that it is committing US One Million Dollars (US$1M) to aid in the fight against COVID-19 in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean’s leading...
2nd Covid-19 death recorded in Trinidad and Tobago
An elderly man who was among the cruise ship passengers quarantined at Camp Balandra and then transferred to the Couva Hospital after falling ill,...
Jamaican man charged with murder of American missionaries
Seven years after the murder of two missionaries from the United States, Andre Thomas,34, a taxi driver from the eastern parish of St. Mary ,...
Curfew continues as Bermuda’s COVID-19 total climbs to 32
Bermuda has hit a “different stage” of the coronavirus crisis, the Premier said yesterday after five more positive tests for Covid-19 pushed the total...
OAS Secretary General Visits Haiti
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs has announced in a press release that Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American...
World Bank Group increases COVID-19 response to help sustain Caribbean economies, protect jobs
The World Bank and IFC’s Boards of Directors approved today an increased $14 billion package of fast-track financing to assist companies and countries in...
CDB sounds note of caution while projecting increased economic growth in 2020
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is projecting regional economic growth to increase to 4.1% in 2020 from 1% in 2019, powered largely by stratospheric...
