WINDRUSH DAY
On 22 June 1948, hundreds of Caribbean people were brought to Tilbury Docks, Essex, in the United Kingdom, on the Empire Windrush ship. Records show that the ship was carrying 1,027 passengers. According to…
INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE CARIBBEAN
“Innovation, Transformation, and Sustainable Development” is the anchoring theme of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), which is scheduled for between June 15th…
NATIONAL DAY – GUYANA
The Cooperative Republic of Guyana celebrates Independence Day on 26th May every year. The holiday commemorates the anniversary of Guyana’s independence from the United Kingdom on the same day in…
PRIME MINISTER OF ST. VINCENT ISSUES EVACUATION ORDER
Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines issued an evacuation order on Thursday 8th May, after several days of increased seismic activity associated with La Soufrière volcano:…
RETOOLED BAHAMAS DEVELOPMENT BANK WILL BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF SMALL BUSINESSES
The Bahamas Development Bank (BDB) has invested in retooling and re-energising the organisation to better meet the needs of small businesses across The Bahamas, said Prime Minister the Most Hon.…
UN ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY | AN URGENT CALL FOR ACTION TO SOLVE PLANETARY EMERGENCIES
Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the world…
INDIA DONATING 500,000 COVID-19 VACCINES TO GUYANA, CARIBBEAN
GUYANA and several other Caribbean countries will benefit from an initial donation of 500,000 Oxford-Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines by the Government of India, as the South-Asian country ‘ups the ante’ on…