Compensation to affected landowners of Dominica's airport project is ongoing, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced. In a press conference Monday, Skerrit revealed that the government has issued full payment to landowners amounting to more than 24 million dollars during the first month of the year. He
Tourism in the Caribbean is now alive and well, according to latest statistics, and is recovering from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) revealed that the Caribbean accounted for 3.1 percent of all arrivals worldwide, with 28.3 million registered tourist visits
Dominica's northeast coast will see busy days ahead following the safe arrival of the heavy equipment for the construction of the island's first international airport. The vessel carrying the machinery reached Dominica's shore Friday, and the offloading is expected to happen in the next few days. In
The equipment for the construction of Dominica's massive airport project is expected to arrive this week, the government of Dominica has announced. Private company China Railway No.5 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (“CR5”) is bringing the equipment to the island and they are looking for more people
Encouraging entrepreneurship to boost tourism in the Caribbean is key to generational wealth. This is according to the head of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), Nicola Madden-Greig, at last week’s Global Tourism Resilience Conference in Jamaica. Madden-Greig urged to shine the spotlight on the entrepreneurial
Pledges on climate financing continue to pour in the Caribbean. On Tuesday, Dominica's Office of the Prime Minister announced Roosevelt Skerrit's meeting with UK's David Rutley, MP for Macclesfield and Minister of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for Americas & Caribbean. "They discussed matters, including innovative climate
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surely did not come to the Caribbean leaders' regular summit empty handed. At the 44th summit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Thursday, Trudeau has announced that his country is allotting $44.8 million in aid to the region, intending to focus
Caribbean leaders recently gathered in Barbados in a bid to support the initiative to invest in an effective early warning system. Known as the Early Warnings for All (EW4ALL), this initiative aims to call for "investment across disaster risk knowledge, observations and forecasting, preparedness and response,
Dominica's first government-approved real estate project under its Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI), Cabrits Resort & Spa, is undergoing a massive change in its operations and management. Rangel Developments, an investment and hospitality company based that operates across the Eastern Caribbean, has assured that the Dominicans
Construction of the geothermal plant in Dominica may begin in April this year, as soon as the negotiations with the developer wrap up this month, according to reports. The government has reported that the drilling exercises in the Roseau Valley on the outskirts of the capital
