Regional News
ECTEL Member States moving closer to implementing number portability
Member States of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority-ECTEL will advance plans to move to number portability later this month.
Number Portability enables telephone users to...
Prime Minister accuses Caribbean Court of Justice of slandering Barbados’ Judicial System
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says Barbados’ judicial system has been “unnecessarily slandered” by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
The island’s final appellate court, which...
Belize Prime Minister to step down by 2020
Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow says he intends to step down as the leader of government and head of the ruling United Democratic Party...
A permanently-staffed US Drug Enforcement Administration office to be set up in Guyana by...
A permanently-staffed United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) office will be set up in Guyana by mid-January next year and the person to lead...
DLP retains power in Dominica
Roosevelt Skerrit has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Dominica for a fifth successive term.
Preliminary data from the Dominica Electoral Office shows the Dominica...
Increased police presence throughout Divali, Acting top cop assures
Police officers in Trinidad and Tobago will be out in their numbers to ensure law and order is maintained throughout Divali celebrations.
Confirmation came from...
CARPHA urges the region to deal seriously to eradicate mosquitoes
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning the region that as the rainy seasons approaches every effort must be made to intensity...
8 homeless in Georgetown Guyana after house fire
The explosion of a kerosene stove early yesterday Easter Monday has left a family of eight homeless in D’ Andrade Street in Newtown Kitty,...
Dorian to be retired from Atlantic Tropical Cyclones list
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,...
Front-line workers should be first to get vaccine, says Barbados PM
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley believes workers in the tourism and travel sector should be given priority access to vaccinations and therapeutics...
