Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, January 18, 2022. From January 27, 2022 Caribbean Airlines will introduce a pre-order meal service, on select routes, which will give customers more choice and an authentic taste of the Caribbean when they fly. This new offering is part of the airline’s focus on enhancing the customer experience, which is the […]

At least six people were killed and dozens injured after a massive rock formation collapsed on top of three boats in Brazil in an incident that was captured on video and posted on social media.  Brazilian authorities have confirmed the incident, which happened in the city of Capitolia in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on Saturday […]

CNN) – Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.Poitier overcame an impoverished background in the […]

(CNBC)-A researcher in Cyprus has discovered a strain of the coronavirus that combines the delta and omicron variant, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, called the strain “deltacron,” because of its omicron-like genetic signatures within the delta genomes, Bloomberg said. So far, Kostrikis and his team […]

5 January, 2022; Bridgetown, Barbados – The Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) has appointed Dr Devon Gardener as Head of Technical Programmes. Dr Gardner – who holds a doctoral degree in chemical physics – served as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat’s Programme Manager (Energy) and Head of the Energy Unit for more […]

January 3, 2022 – Bridgetown, Barbados – Tuna and tuna-like fishes, most notably the yellowfin and Atlantic sailfish make up about 70 percent of the reported catches in Grenada. With an estimated 2 550 tonnes of fish caught annually, fisheries play an important role in the Grenadian economy, providing employment and income, food and food security, […]

The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC) has received special recognition as the World’s Leading Tourism Initiative at the World Travel Awards (WTA) 2021. Held on December 16, in Dubai, the award scheme, which celebrated its 28th edition this year, acknowledges, rewards and celebrates excellence across all sectors […]

[Kingston, Jamaica, December 2021] The CATAPULT Arts Grant, valued at $210,000 USD, returns to support Caribbean creatives in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arts Grant was born out of a collaboration between Kingston Creative and The American Friends of Jamaica and is partly funded by the Open Society Foundation. In its second year, the […]