The Nature Island of Dominica has launched its "Safe in Nature" tourism campaign aimed to provide a safe experience to visitors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Safe in Nature commitment program is a result of the collective work of The Ministry of Tourism, International Transport and Maritime
Press Release - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) deplores the ongoing unilateral, arbitrary and non-transparent blacklisting strategy employed by the European Union (EU) against CARICOM Member States. The most recent inclusion of CARICOM States to the blacklist of alleged non-cooperative tax jurisdictions and jurisdictions identified as
The people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will go to the polls on November 5 in a general election. Parliament will be dissolved today, and Nomination Day will be October 20. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves who is seeking his fifth consecutive term, made the
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the sole regional public health agency, has released a six-minute video highlighting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Entitled "CARPHA – Leading the Caribbean’s COVID-19 Response", the video also includes testimonial on CARPHA’s role in its Member States. Since the pandemic,
The European Union (EU) added two more Caribbean nations - Anguilla and Barbados to its blacklist of tax havens. Anguilla and Barbados now join Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Virgin Islands on the blacklist. “Anguilla and Barbados were included in the EU list following peer review reports
Press Release – The Cayman Islands has become the 19th Participating State of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), with official admission effective September 1, 2020. The final decision was made at the 5th Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of CDEMA on August 28, 2020,
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said that economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean will be slower than the return to productivity following the subprime mortgage crisis more than a decade ago. Alicia Bárcena was speaking during a
Press Release - Jamaican geospatial scientist and Managing Director of GeoTechVision Jamaica, Valrie Grant, has won the 2020 WE Empower UN Sustainable Development Goals Challenge 2020 Award. The award includes a grant of US$20,000.00 towards her company’s Student Digital Citizenship Programme and EduTechAid initiative. Grant was
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says that COVID-19 could spread through airborne particles that can linger in the air for minutes or even hours. In its latest guidance, CDC acknowledged that under certain circumstances, people have become infected by smaller particles
United Airlines announced that they are set to expand their service to the Caribbean region by next month as flights to Antigua, Curacao, Grand Cayman, Nassau and St Lucia resumes. "For the month of November, we have adjusted our capacity to add flying for leisure travel to
