The bank has now announced that it’s divesting its operations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands to Oriental Bank in a deal valued at $US 560 million cash.
The president of Ghana has been on a five-nation swing across the Caribbean taking in Guyana, St Vincent, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
More than fifty government officials, manufacturers, distributors, restaurants owners, civil society representatives and stakeholders from other private and public sectors, gathered in Jamaica this week for a two-day meeting to tackle the scourge of salt consumption in the Region.
In a campaign rife with accusations of hypocrisy and double standards by many of the candidates, not only have previous utterances come back to haunt practically all of them with their eyes on the prime ministerial prize, so to have some of their escapades.
If there’s one thing that President Donald Trump’s second UK visit will be remembered for, it’s the National Health Service (NHS).
If there are two things that the EU elections have thrown up in the mix, they are the surge to the right in European and British politics, and it’s the current precarious state of politics in Britain.
Her voice cracking in an uncharacteristic display of emotion, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced her resignation bringing to an end her turbulent Brexit-laden three years in office.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines took a major step towards a cleaner and more secure energy future on Monday, May 6, launching a multi-million dollar geothermal energy-drilling project made possible with financing mobilised by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
In a situation that bears close, if not necessarily striking resemblance to the United Kingdom’s Windrush immigration crisis, the British Virgin Islands, a UK Overseas Territory, has found itself in the midst of an almost similar imbroglio.
The British government has rejected the key recommendations in the recent report by the UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee(FAC) on future relations with the Overseas Territories (OTS).