FAO: Hunger in the Caribbean remains prevalent
From 103FM tt The Caribbean remains the sub-region with the highest prevalence of hunger at 17.7% according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. According to the Panorama of Food Security and Nutrition, hunger levels are still low in Latin America…
New super-airline
A new super-airline wants to dominate South America — here’s what it’s like to fly on its new planes By Benjamin Zhang From Business Insider In operation since 2015, LATAM is one of newest international airline brands in the world….
CBAAC plans Caribbean nations tour, to reconnect them with African culture
From The Nation The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC) says its proposed tour of the Caribbean nations and festivals is to reconnect Africans in the Diaspora with their cultural heritage in Africa. Chief Ferdinand Anikwe, the…
What happened to Zika? Florida has no local cases this year – so far
BY DANIEL CHANG From Miami Herald A year after the first outbreak of Zika in Miami, the mosquito-borne virus’s once-menacing march has slowed to a crawl, with Florida health officials reporting fewer infections in 2017 than last year and no…
Zika virus hit Florida three months before infections showed up
From Caribbean News Weekly The Zika virus began spreading in Florida mosquitoes about three months before infections showed up in the Miami area last summer, and the virus likely was carried in by travelers from the Caribbean, new research suggests….
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Migration from the Caribbean and South America
From Curacao Chronicle “At the time of independence, in 1975, Dutch subjects living in the colony of Suriname were given the choice of Dutch or Surinamese citizenship. Amazingly, 220,000 out of a population of 450,000 left Suriname for the Netherlands…
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Wyndham celebrates 200 hotels in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hospitality powerhouse doubles its footprint less than five years after welcoming its 100th in the region; Introduces approachable luxury to South America with the continent’s first Wyndham Grand hotels PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Hotel giant WyndhamHotel Group’s rapidly mounting global presence hit…
Palladium Hotel Group targets growth in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America and Europe
Palladium Hotel Group Development Update Palladium Hotel Group plans to expand by implementing a hotel management model in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America and Europe in addition to its current ownership model. In 2016, the company achieved a turnover of…
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Dutch Navy makes large coke bust in Caribbean
From The St Maarten Daily Herald THE HAGUE–The Royal Dutch Navy in the Caribbean last week caught two shipments of cocaine totalling close to 700 kilograms in one night, the Ministry of Defence announced on Tuesday. The Navy station ship…
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Losses from virus total $18bn – UNDP
Pulse News Agency Local By NAN The UN Development Programme (UNDP) says that the social and economic cost of the recent spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean will total up to 18 billion dollars between…
