The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is expanding its collaboration with INMED Partnerships for Children/INMED Caribbean to improve the capacity of small-scale farmers to implement climate-adaptive aquaponics farming and to strengthen Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. The Increasing Access to Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Caribbean through INMED
According to the country's geophysics agency, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Just before 10:30 am, the shallow earthquake off the Mentawai islands, off the west coast of Sumatra, was detected by Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency (BMKG), which reported
Bahamian Talk Show Host and International Motivational Speaker Spence Finlayson will be among the honorees during the Bahamian American Association Inc. (BAAI) of New York's 110th-anniversary celebration on September 17, 2022. Finlayson took the highly popular Bahamas-based Immediate Response Radio and Television show to New York
The 2022 CBI Index has emphasized the importance of the Citizenship By Investment (CBI) programmes on small islands, calling it a "tool to finance stronger, more resilient economies" in its latest report. According to the special report annually released by the Financial Times, CBI is allowing
Fourteen candidates from Grenada, Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines were awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. British High Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, His Excellency Scott Furssedonn-Wood, is very pleased with the recent announcement. “I am delighted
Cécil Mitchell, a certified meteorologist at the Grenada Airports Authority (GAA) Department of Meteorology, was recently appointed as a member of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Expert Team for Services for Aviation, Regional Association IV, which includes North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Mitchell has
UN News - The “senseless war” in Ukraine is now six months old, with no end in sight, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council, repeating his ongoing appeal for peace. The “sad and tragic milestone” coincided with Ukraine's 31st anniversary of independence, and Mr
President Dr Irfaan Ali visited the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), Liza Unity, at ExxonMobil’s Stabroek block. Ali told the Liza Unity crew that they are among the “trailblazers” responsible for setting the mark in the oil and gas industry. "Your jobs come with a
On Ukraine's Independence Day, Russian forces fired rockets at a train station, killing 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukrainian news agencies reported that Zelenskyy told the U.N. Security Council via video that the deadly attack happened in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people
UN News - UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region “could die in devastating numbers” without urgent intervention and support. In the last five months, the number of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia without
