By Caribbean News Now contributor HAVANA, Cuba, – Canada restored some visa services at its Embassy in Havan from August 1, 2019, including visa and biometric services, fingerprints and photos needed for applications done at the embassy, as well as drop off and pick up passports/visas. This new announcement does not restore the full list […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Nazma Muller, founder of the Caribbean Collective for Justice and a staunch advocate for the legalisation of marijuana in the region, has long maintained that it’s unconscionable that Trinidad and Tobago’s ministry of health has never exercised clauses to amendments made to the Dangerous Drugs Act in 2000, which allows for […]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The Federal Republic of Germany contributed €1 million (US$1.1 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), supporting emergency food assistance to more than 16.000 families severely affected by the drought in the Dry Corridor of Honduras. Most of these families are subsistence farmers and daily wage labourers, who have lost […]

BELMOPAN, Belize —The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) to enhance comprehensive disaster management and climate change resilience in the fisheries and aquaculture sector within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). CRFM Executive Director, Milton Haughton, signed the MOU for CRFM while the Executive […]

MIAMI, USA — The US Virgin Islands Department of Tourism has announced the addition of a third American Airlines daily flight between Miami and St Thomas in time for the winter season, effective December 18, 2019. The third daily flight will operate as a “same day turn”, departing Miami International Airport at 8:35 a.m., and […]

CASTRIES, St Lucia — Regional statistical experts gathered in Saint Lucia this week to lend their expertise towards the enhancement of institutional capacity in statistical data collection and analysis within the agricultural sector. Based on an assessment conducted in 2018, strategic planning in agriculture has been identified as one of the major challenges faced in […]

BASSETERRE, St Kitts — The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) launched the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) Public Debt and Market Information Web Portal during a regional media conference held July 23, at the ECCB Headquarters, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis. This initiative, an important deliverable in the ECCB Strategic Plan 2017-2021, marked another milestone […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Caribbean Airlines launched the latest of its digital products, the Caribbean Airlines Mobile App, designed for use by IOS and Android devices and features an array of tools to enhance the customers’ travel experience. It is available for free download for Android and iOS users on the Google Play Store […]