UN News - As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to surge across the world, the UN health agency said that it was crucial that more is done to help all countries receive lifesaving coronavirus jabs as quickly as possible. The development comes as a senior
Media Release - An Asian film festival has awarded the 2022 Best Television Award to Bahamas-produced Goombay Kids. The show is making rounds in festivals from Canada to England to Russia and an American film festival reviewer ranked the origin of Junkanoo episode five out
Staatsolie, Suriname's state-owned oil company, estimates that its gross revenues for 2021 will be around US$400 million where nearly half will cover payments for taxes, dividends and royalties. In a statement, the management said that approximately six million barrels of crude were produced at its Saramacca
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) condemns the armed attack on the Prime Minister of Haiti and his delegation at Gonaives on Saturday 1 January 2022 during the traditional ceremony commemorating the 218th anniversary of Haiti’s independence. The attendance of the Prime Minister of Haiti and his delegation
Lauran Neergaard and Carla Johnson, AP News - Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be like flipping a light switch: The world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that’s not going away. The ultra-contagious
Bajans will head to the polls to elect a Government to lead them for the next five years on January 19, 2022. The next general election is more than a year before it is constitutionally due. In an announcement to the nation from llaro Court, Prime Minister Mia
Media Release -BirdsCaribbean is extremely concerned at the drastic increase in the capture and trafficking of wild birds in Cuba over the past two years, and is urging the Cuban Government to enforce laws put in place to curb the practice. The economic strain brought on
Media Release - The ship of Caribbean women in the maritime industry is being steered by a newly elected Governing Council, voted into office at the Women in Maritime Association, Caribbean (WiMAC) Annual General Meeting and Elections held on the 10th December 2021. Affectionately referred to
Press Release - Members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) emerged winners in several categories of the Caribbean Travel Awards 2022, defying the challenges of a global pandemic that dealt a devastating blow to the main revenue-generating industry for Eastern Caribbean countries. OECS Member
UN News - Blanket COVID-19 vaccine booster programmes could prolong the pandemic and increase inequity, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday. “No country can boost its way out of the pandemic,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking in Geneva during his final press briefing for
