A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) travel bubble will be launched on Friday, 18 September, to resuscitate the regional travel and tourism sectors challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic since March. CARICOM Heads took this decision following a Special Emergency Session. The leaders were guided by a report from
Hurricane Paulette battered Bermuda last Monday with strong damaging winds and torrential rains knocking down utility poles and leaving some roads unpassable. Even if the island was battered by Paullete, the Bermudian spirit remains unshaken. “After a day and night of high winds, driving rain and
Barbados will become a republic by the island’s 55th anniversary of independence in November 2021 removing Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state. Reading the speech written byPrime Minister Mia Mottley, Governor-General Dame Sandra Mason made the announcement at the opening of a new parliamentary session. "The time
JetBlue announced the addition of more than half a dozen new routes across the Caribbean region beginning November 2020. The expansion includes new flights from Newark International Airport to six Caribbean countries namely Aruba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Sint Maarten, The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos as
Contributed by Sofia Olson The previous and current government of Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN) has negatively impacted the Citizenship by Investment Programme in ways and means that rob the residents and economic citizens of SKN. These are all happening without any visible effort to address
Paulette, Rene and Twenty are just 3 of the 6 weather systems being monitored by the National Hurricane Center in the Atlantic amid La Niña. Hurricane Paulette Hurricane Paulette could directly hit Bermuda by Monday and stirs up waves and rip currents on the U.S. East Coast. A
Tropical Storm Paulette is moving northwestward over the central Atlantic and is expected to become a hurricane today and possibly bring hazardous conditions to Bermuda by tomorrow night. According to the latest Public Advisory issued by the National Hurricane Centre, Paulette is about 590 miles southeast
Calypso legend of Antigua and Barbuda Sir Rupert ‘King Swallow’ Philo has died. He was 78. King Swallow succumb to death surrounded by his loved ones at his home in Willikies on Friday after suffering from a prolonged illness. He began competing in the calypso art form
12.4 million job cuts expected The Word Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) expects a $230 billion worth of losses in the Caribbean and Latin America due to the decimated tourism industry caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In a Reuters report, the president of the WTTC said that
Distributed energy resources can generate job opportunities Harnessing the wind, solar, and geothermal energy that are abundant in the Caribbean can lead to "near-term job opportunities with lasting impacts," according to a recent report of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). The research report comes as a timely
