The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting another "above-normal" Atlantic hurricane season with 13 to 20 total named storms. NOAA predicts that six to ten of those storms were likely to become hurricanes, with wind speeds of 74 mph or higher. Likewise, the agency
UN News - In Haiti, the number of severely malnourished under-fives could more than double this year, UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday. Some could die if they do not receive timely treatment. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, children’s lives on the Caribbean island have been increasingly
Trinidad and Tobago will adjust restrictions and curfew to the daytime period on the two public holidays scheduled this week, the Indian Arrival Day on Monday and Corpus Christi on Thursday, to limit movement during the day. At a media briefing yesterday, Prime Minister Keith Rowley
CARPHA Release - Under the theme Pandemic, NCDs and Climate Change – The Caribbean’s Triple Threat, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), will host its first-ever virtual health research conference, from 16 to 19 June 2021. In
UN News - With fears that one of the world’s most active volcanoes could erupt again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is warning that up to 400,000 – nearly 280,000 children – could be displaced and in
Fugitive jeweler Mehul Choksi, one of India's most wanted in connection with the Punjab National Bank loan fraud case, has been captured in Dominica while trying to flee to Cuba. Sources said Choksi had reached Dominica by boat. And with a Yellow Notice issued after his mysterious
UN News - Odds are increasing that the annual average global temperature will rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in at least one of the next five years, the UN weather agency warns in a new report issued on Thursday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said
Grenada GIS - Government has delivered on its promise to provide safe and affordable housing for people in Carriacou. 100 China Aid low-income housing units were handed over on the sister-isle. The handover at Dumfries, is the third of 5 sites to be completed under the
CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, congratulates Guyana on the occasion of its 55th Independence Anniversary. Full statement as follows: “On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I extend congratulations to the Government and People of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana on the occasion of the country’s
Hundreds of children and families in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Goma district are at risk following the volcanic eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. Around 8,000 people crossed into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to seek refuge following the eruption of the volcano,
