LIAT‘s commercial passenger services will remain suspended until June 30 2020, due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Julie Reifer-Jones reported that most of LIAT’s network remains closed to commercial passenger traffic. While some territories have announced a reopening date,
Today marks the second observance of World Food Safety Day (WFSD). This year’s theme “Food safety, everyone’s business” calls attention to the fact that food safety is a shared responsibility among policymakers, farmers, food businesses and consumers. Whether you grow, process, transport, store, distribute, sell, prepare,
Poorer countries slated to get their supply this year A multinational pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical company has now the capability to produce 2 billion doses of a likely vaccine that can effectively curb the highly contagious coronavirus, which has been ravaging countries all over the world since
The restart will be divided into two phases As it gears up on awakening its tourism industry, The Bahamas laid out its readiness and recovery plan to safeguard every citizen from the novel coronavirus. The Caribbean island is slated to open on the 1st of July, along
The Commonwealth Secretariat is joining forces with Vulcan Inc. to help member countries manage their ocean spaces via cutting-edge mapping technology. Commonwealth countries are responsible for more than a third of the world's coastal ocean, and 45 per cent of its coral reefs. Harnessing satellite technology The new tool will use satellite technology to create country-specific
Press Release SKNLP - The economic fallout of the COVID-19 threatens the entire global financial and economic structure and could push hundreds of millions of people below the poverty line. The Head of the IMF has warned that the IMF “anticipates the worst economic fallout
As countries move towards establishing normalcy, World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidelines on mass gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization recommends a number of possible changes to large events like inviting only healthy people, once they are allowed to take place. “In the
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved a series of Caribbean Regional Air Transport Connectivity Projects in four countries for a total of US$159 million, to enhance regional connectivity by improving the safety of air transport and the resilience of the airport infrastructure to natural disasters. These
As the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, CARICOM rum producers have modified their production lines to play their part by producing alcohol and hand sanitiser and making donations of sanitation products. Across the Caribbean, contributions have been made to governments, institutions, and frontline
The BOSS programme or "optional national meeting turn" will ensure employment and will finance capital expenditure brought by COVID-19. Officials of the Ministry of Finance have been meeting with representatives of the labour unions to discuss proposals to facilitate the Government’s objective of creating much needed
