By Youri Kemp Caribbean News Now associate editor [email protected] BRUSSELS, Belgium — Afghanistan, American Samoa, the Bahamas, Botswana, North Korea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guam, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, US Virgin Islands and Yemen have all been blacklisted in a report published by […]

By Caribbean News Now contributor WASHINGTON, USA — A Jamaican lottery scammer chose the wrong person to try to extort: the only man to lead both the FBI and CIA. William Webster, who is now 94 years old, and his wife, Lynda, were targeted four years ago by a man who peddled a lottery scam […]

(From left) USAID Mission Director Christopher Cushing, OECS General Counsel Dwight Lay and Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of SocialTransformation and Human Resource Development Samantha Marshall pose with signed the MOU BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the government of Antigua and Barbuda, and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) […]

By Caribbean News Now contributor DUBAI, UAE — A new report on Saturday by the widely-read Gulf News detailing the rampant abuse of the St Kitts and Nevis citizenship by investment programme (CIP) has created a major stir in the Middle East, a significant source market of applicants wishing to obtain second passports. Although much of the […]

José David Dominguez, 9 years old, is accompanied by his mother, Yenni Dominguez, to get his vaccine at UNICEF’s health point in Ipiales,Colombia. UNICEF has launched a regional response effort to support Venezuelan children and families, as well as children in host communities. Photo: UNICEF/UN0253234/Moreno Gonza GENEVA, Switzerland — The situation for ordinary Venezuelans is […]

Signage at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) at its headquarters in Trinidad’s capital city, Port of Spain. Photo by Gerrard Gomez, used with permission PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — In the case of Chandra Ramotar Singh v Bhagwantlall Mossai and Alvin Alves, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday held that two land […]

Stakeholders identifying key needs and potential measures to address climate change in priority sectors KINGSTOWN, St Vincent — Government, civil society and private sector stakeholders from various economic sectors in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) participated in the first national consultation on December 11, 2018, to develop a climate change policy to mainstream climate […]

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne By Caribbean News Now contributor ST JOHN’S, Antigua — In a letter on Tuesday to David Parks, managing director, Caribbean East, of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne described Scotiabank’s agreement to sell its local banking operations to Trinidad-based […]

KRALENDIJK, Bonaire — The technology company Wärtsilä has been awarded an integrated 6 MW energy storage project contract for the Caribbean island of Bonaire. The engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) hybrid energy project includes both the hardware, consisting of batteries and inverters, as well as GEMS, the energy management software from Greensmith Energy, a Wärtsilä […]