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Spicemas attracts many more
Grenada’s Spicemas festival solidified its position as one of the top Caribbean carnivals to visit with record numbers.
Grenada’s Spicemas festival solidified its position as one of the top Caribbean carnivals to visit with record numbers.
Barbados is preparing to allow foreign cannabis companies to set up operations there. They will be required to ensure locals own at least 30 percent of the business, the Ministry of Agriculture revealed.
Jamaican tourism continues to grow with the news from Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, who announced new flights out of South America and Russia to the island.
Dominica held its fourth annual Auto Sport Show which organisers deemed a success. The show, at Sikwi Park in Castle Bruce last weekend, saw auto enthusiasts showcase the best of bikes, cars, buses and SUVs in music, design and driving skills. The event was organized by 767 Street Promotion – Krew m
Trinidad and Tobago politics is in turmoil as two former senior civil servants argue over whether there was a policy of firing people of East Indian descent from the Strategic Services Agency.
The death toll of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas is at least 20 people with officials certain the number will rise, the prime minister, Hubert Minnis, announced as he declared a “historic tragedy” on the archipelago.
I was saddened to hear the news of the recent passing of former MLA John McLean. Mr McLean devotedly served the Cayman Islands, dedicating 24 years of his life to politics.
Last Friday was the end of the first week of school, and in West Bay there was a joy-filled celebration happening in a white building on Town Hall Road. The Ministry of Peace Church held its Youth Rally 2019, geared specifically to ages 5-13. It was a truly unique event; and inspiring as well.
The RCIPS helicopter has deployed to The Bahamas to support the relief effort following the devastation of Hurricane Dorian.
The Protocol Office requests individuals, businesses and organisations, who wish to lower their flags to half-mast ahead of the funeral of the late John McLean, MLA, to do so at 9.05 a.m. on Monday, 9 September 2019.