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OECS Authority Statement on the situation in…
Media Release Thursday, November 25, 2021 — Chairman of the OECS Authority Prime Minister The Right Honourable Dr. Keith Mitchell has issued an appeal for calm and reasoned dialogue in the French…
Gov’t, Opposition spar over new charter as island…
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Barbados government has presented a new Charter of Barbados to Parliament that has led to a war of words between Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph…
Antigua Offers 50% Severance To Former LIAT…
Source: CMC CMC:- The Antigua and Barbuda government has announced its support for an offer of 50 percent of the severance pay owed to former employees of the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT. A…
More than half of adult population vaccinated…
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government on Monday said that it has fully vaccinated more than half of the country’s adult population against the COVID-19 pandemic as the country registered more deaths…
PAHO Director says 99% COVID patients dying are…
This time the Director of PAHO (Pan American Health Organisation) – Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, was invited by Dominican Prime Minister – Roosevelt Skerrit at his weekly show – ‘Annou Pale’ on Sunday,…
Caribbean Community Chair Urges Legal Action On…
News Americas, LONDON, England, Mon. Nov. 15, 2021: Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Caricom chairman Gaston Browne is among small island states dissatisfied the fund they had called for had…
First visit of the Caribbean Development Bank’s…
President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Gene Leon visits the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer to discuss new areas of cooperation in the Caribbean. Visit…
CARICOM looking to US for COVID-19 pills and…
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he has instructed the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat to seek vaccines and pills from the United States government as…
Cuba Won’t Tolerate US Interference In Its…
Cuban authorities rejected the holding of a "citizen" march through which Washington seeks to advance its strategy of destabilization against the Socialist revolution. On Thursday, Cuba’s Foreign…
Antigua & Barbuda: Schools will not allow…
The government of Antigua & Barbuda, in its media release, informed that unvaccinated secondary students, teachers and other staff members would not be permitted to enter the premises of the…
CARICOM Declaration “1.5°: Ambition to Defend the…
Underscoring that Small Island and low-lying coastal Developing States (SIDS) are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and have been internationally recognized as a special case for sustainable…
LIAT to resume services to St. Thomas
ST. JOHN’S, ANTIGUA November 9, 2021 – LIAT will resume services to St.Thomas, U.S Virgin Islands (USVI) on November 21, 2021. The airline, which has been working to resume services since its restart…
Only fully vaccinated people will be allowed entry…
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, MP, said there will be no further extension for travellers to take the second dose of a covid vaccine to enter the country. During the COVID-19 update on Monday,…
COP 26 a public relations exercise, says Antigua’s…
St John’s – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has described the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow as a “public relations exercise”, even as he…
COVID-19 causing shift in socio-economic profiles…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Elizabeth Riley, says the protracted nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a radical shift…