Caribbean governments slammed on Twitter for Venezuela Govt. support at OAS
From NAN News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. June 22, 2017: The Venezuelan Nicholas Maduro government may be trying its hardest to control the media in the South American nation but nationals are using Twitter to make their voices heard….
CTO: Challenging year for tourism
From Guardian TT BRIDGETOWN, Barbados—Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Hugh Riley has described 2016 as an impressive, yet challenging year for Caribbean tourism. “We have seen a rise in tourist arrivals when compared to our record year…
SportsMax to broadcast live from the ‘I Am Bolt’ Jamaica premiere
Monday, December 5, 2016-: SportsMax will broadcast live from the red carpet for the ‘I Am Bolt’ Jamaica premiere on Tuesday, December 6 at the National Indoor Sports Center in Kingston, as Caribbean sports and entertainment celebrities converge for an…
Delia Dolor hosts Miss Caribbean UK 2016
From St Lucia Times December 2016 will see the crowning of a new host of contestants competing for the title of the UK’s Queen of the Caribbean. Miss Caribbean United Kingdom was set up as an event to promote all…
US Congress reconsiders strategic importance of partnership with the Caribbean
By Bruce Zagaris From Caribbean News Now On July 14, 2016, the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere held a hearing on the “Strategic Importance of Building a Stronger US-Caribbean Partnership.” On June…
IMC/SportsMax secures Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Kingston, Jamaica – Wednesday, 20th July, 2016: International Media Content Ltd. (IMC), parent company of SportsMax and a subsidiary of Digicel Group, announced today that it has been awarded the exclusive broadcast rights for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and…
The View from Europe: A helpful confluence of events
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now It is clear from a recent visit to Washington that there is a renewed interest in the Caribbean and that its concerns are back on the US agenda. How this has come about…
UK beauty pageant positively promoting the Caribbean
By Poppy Brady From The Voice UK The national finals of Miss Caribbean UK 2016 (MCUK) will be held at the end of the year in London MISS CARIBBEAN UK – it’s the ultimate crown that showcases so much more than…
Student Programme for Innovation in Science and Engineering (SPISE)
BY CARDINAL WARDE From Caribbean Science Foundation The long-term overall goal of the CSF (http://caribbeanscience.org) is to help diversify the economies of the Caribbean Region by smulating more technology-based entrepreneurship, creating more high paying jobs, and thereby raising the standard…
The View from Europe: Renewing the US relationship
By David Jessop A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship. The bill has no funding attached to it….