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Article by Social Share Barbados’ newly appointed CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, Java Sealy and Meghan Theobalds whose tenure started on February 1 and goes to July 31, 2022, are eager to get started on their task of engaging, empowering, and educating Barbadian and regional youth about their community. They say they are honoured to have been chosen and despite having to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic, they intend to utilise technology to reach and engage their audience. “It is a pr...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A child therapeutic centre is to be constructed for the Child Protectio...

The BVI Beacon Government ministers hit the road Virgin Islands culture and art were central during a week of community meetings hosted by government ministers throughout the territory, but leaders also addressed issues including the development of Road … Deputy Speaker of the House Neville Smith speaks during a Tuesday evening meeting in Sea Cows Bay. He was among several government members to provide updates in a series of similar sessions. (Photo: ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED) Virgin Islands cultu...

GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO INVEST IN DEVELOPMENT OF PETITE SAVANNE CONSTITUENCY GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO INVEST IN DEVELOPMENT OF PETITE SAVANNE CONSTITUENCY The Petite Savanne Constituency was dealt a hard blow after the passage of Tropical Storm Erika in 2015. Many residents had to be relocated due the devastation wreaked by the tropical storm. Since then the Government of Dominica has made significant investments in various sectors to help rebuild the constituency. The sporting sector...

Cruise ships are the biggest casualty of COVID-19: they have all but ceased to exist – or at least to be seen. The pandemic has cruelly exposed the extreme fragility of the industry to attack from the very thing that makes them so popular: crowds. People in the know are pondering: is COVID-19 an existential threat to the industry? It certainly puts a hard end to the simplistic assumption on which the industry has been based for the past 30 years: never-ending growth. You can forget about that...

St. Maarten, the Netherlands reach accord THE HAGUE--St. Maarten and the Netherlands signed an accord on Tuesday with regard to the conditions for liquidity support, Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops announced.   Knops and St. Maarten Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs put their signature under the political agreement in a virtual setting around 10:00am St. Maarten time, 3:00pm Dutch time after several weeks of talks. St. Maarten was the last Dutch Caribbean...

Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster (left), cuts the ribbon to officially commission a new skid unit at the Santa Cruz Fire Station in St.Elizabeth. He is joined by Commissioner of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), Stewart Beckford (right), who handed over the unit on Wednesday at the station (contributed photo) The Santa Cruz fire station in St Elizabeth has received a new skid unit, which will enable firefighters to better respond to bush fires in sections of the parish. The uni...

Google Doodle honours Sir Arthur Lewis Article by December 10, 2020 SOURCE: Loop News St Lucia – St Lucia’s Nobel Laureate, economist and professor Sir William Arthur Lewis is being celebrated by Google 41 years after he was awarded the Nobel Laureate Prize in economics. Lewis was the first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics, the first Black person to hold a chair in a British university (at Manchester University), and the first Black instructor to re...

On this today 41 years ago, Lewis was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work to model the economic forces that impact developing countries. | World News