Friday, March 29, 2024

Regional

Minor stabs relative to death

NASSAU – The murder toll in The Bahamas climbed to 34 so far this year after two people, including a 25-year-old man, who was stabbed to death by a...

Sir Hilary to address UN

KINGSTON – Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, will address the...

IMF approves more funds for Suriname

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted Suriname a waiver for nonobservance of a performance criterion and will...

Haiti one step away from famine, warns UN

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti, Ulrika Richardson, is warning that the situation in...

Haiti: US sending flight to evacuate citizens as violence continues

The United States government is organizing a charter flight for American citizens in Haiti, the US Embassy in...

St Lucia to introduce room levy

CASTRIES – The St Lucia government on Wednesday signalled its intention of introducing a tourism levy that it said will help finance the marketing...

Australian company finds gold in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Australia-based mining company Alicanto Minerals says it has made its first-ever gold find here and that it has discovered a...

CDEMA signs MOU with airline

BRIDGETOWN – The Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a Turks and Caicos Islands-based...

Classes to remain online for St George’s

ST GEORGE’S – The Grenada-based St George’s University (SGU) says it will continue providing classes for its thousands of students on line because of...

T&T policeman charged for not wearing mask in Public

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Police Commissioner, Gary Griffith, ordered that a police officer be issued with a TT$1,000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) ticket...

IDB to analyse effect of pandemic

Washington - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it will bring together experts to discuss the state of financial inclusion as a result of...