LOOP CARIBBEAN NEWS—Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said Antigua and Barbuda passport holders do not need a visa to travel to the United Kingdom. Responding to questions from the Opposition in the Parliament on Thursday, Browne said Antiguans would need to apply for the UK’s Electronic
DOMINICA NEWS ONLINE—The UK government has announced today (Wednesday 19 July) that, with immediate effect, all Dominican nationals will require a visa before travelling to the UK, including to visit. The changes, which come into effect immediately, will apply to all Dominican nationals seeking to enter
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
The Government will move swiftly toward transitioning Jamaica into a republic, according to the Prime Minister, the Most Honorable Andrew Holness. Holness, speaking at the Half Moon Hotel in St. James on January 14 for Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett's 25th Anniversary Scholarship Programme, noted that while
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) will be receiving the final shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom today, Wednesday. According to Health Minister Marlon Penn, the vaccines were guaranteed under the provisions of a revised Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Health Security Agency and
ASSOCIATED PRESS—Cheering crowds greeted King Charles III on Tuesday in Northern Ireland on his tour of the four parts of the United Kingdom, where the visit drew a rare moment of unity from politicians in a region with a contested British and Irish identity that
The COP26 Ambassador for Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) expressed his support towards Dominica's efforts in becoming the world's first climate-resilient nation. In a tweet, Ambassador Ken O’Flaherty—who also serves as United Kingdom's ambassador for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference or
The Caribbean immigrants were honored Wednesday for their "profound contribution" to the United Kingdom's recovery post-war. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge led the ceremony at the Waterloo train station in London where the monument called The National Windrush Monument is erected. The statue depicted a
Cuba's deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo and the permanent undersecretary of the UK Foreign Ministry, Philip Barton, recently held a virtual meeting, where they reaffirmed the willingness to strengthen bilateral relations. On Twitter, the Cuban official reported that in the exchange they ratified the mutual
Two Caribbean nations are still in the United Kingdom's (UK) Red List of countries to avoid travelling to due to high risk of COVID-19 infection. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are among seven countries are still in the UK's Red List, Loop News has reported. The
