KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of the West Indies (The UWI), open campus in collaboration with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), will host a two-day cybersecurity Workshop entitled “Cybersecurity: Pathways to Managing Cyber Vulnerabilities” July 24 and 25, 2019. The cybersecurity Workshop will be hosted at the JDF Directorate of Training and Doctrine, Up Camp […]
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (CNS) – Britain’s ambassador to Cuba, Antony Stokes, signed up most of the UK’s Caribbean Overseas Territories to a new Caribbean Customs Organisation (COO) recently at the 41st Annual Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC) in Havana. The treaty provides a legal framework to formalise and enhance an existing MOU first […]
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Delegates from CRFM member states and CRFM secretariat staff at the thirteenth regular meeting of the ministerial council BELIZE CITY, Belize — Caribbean fisheries ministers who met for two days last week in Saint Kitts and Nevis underscored the need for the region to take urgent action to address the ongoing Sargassum scourge, as well […]
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – As of June 1, all Caribbean members of CCRIF SPC completed the selection of their CCRIF insurance portfolio for 2019/20, with nine Caribbean governments increasing their level of coverage for at least one of their policies and one country purchasing cover for an additional peril (tropical cyclone) that it did […]
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By Caribbean News Now contributor ST JOHN’S, Antigua — At a news conference Tuesday following the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), two-day meeting, the dominant concerns were matters relating to LIAT’s future, Scotiabank divestment to Republic Financial Holdings Limited and regional leadership. Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit reiterated that the regional private sector […]
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By Caribbean News Now contributor WOODBRIDGE, USA — Joseph Allen, 55 of New Jersey has become the ninth American tourist to die under suspicious circumstances while vacationing in the Dominican Republic (DR), the US State Department has verified. Allen was discovered lifeless in his hotel room at Terra Linda resort in the town of Sosua […]
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Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr Didacus Jules By Caribbean News Now contributor CASTRIES, Saint Lucia — Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr Didacus Jules, speaking at the opening ceremony of the 67th meeting In Antigua and Barbuda stated that, “More than ever before diplomacy […]
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By Caribbean News Now contributor BASSETERRE, St Kitts – St Kitts and Nevis hosting of the Caribbean Investment Summit coincides with the 35th anniversary of its pioneering Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI); is also where several major CBI projects dot the landscape either abandoned or incomplete. It seems more evident than not, that the Embassy […]
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By Caribbean News Now contributor NASSAU, Bahamas – The largest seizure in the Philadelphia region’s history was detected by United States (US) federal agents Monday. Officials are investigating whether more than 15,500 kilos of cocaine discovered in seven containers on board a cargo ship in Philadelphia, was packed onto the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Gayane […]
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ST JOHNS, Antigua – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the founding signatory countries to a treaty that establishes the Caribbean Customs Organisation (CCO). Some 14 territories formalised the agreement at a meeting in late May of the XLI Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council, which the CCO now replaces. The meeting took place in Cuba. […]
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