The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has issued a series of redesigned banknotes replacing the late Queen Elizabeth II with selected national heroes from member states where the Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC/XCD) is the official currency.
The Bermuda government is still hoping to table legislation on major electoral reforms by September this year.
The Caricom Reparations Commission has included the British and other Overseas Territories(OTs) in the region in a Revised Reparations Manifesto it is now presenting to the United Kingdom government and the United Nations as it ramps up its lobbying.
Under mounting pressure, especially from the European Union(EU), over their Citizen By Investment(CBI)/Citizen Investment Programme(CIP) passport scheme, leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States(OECS) have announced that they are setting up a unified strategy to hopefully resolve the
An issue which has become a controversial topic of debate throughout the Caribbean, especially in countries which have or are negotiating third-country nationals (TCN) deportee arrangements with the United States, has landed on the Caricom Summit agenda.
A global rescue and relief effort is underway as Venezuela continues to reel from the effects of two devastating earthquakes that rocked the country on June 24th.
Yet another Caribbean country is ‘eyeing up’ its oil exploration potential. With Guyana now well established as ‘the next big thing’ in the global oil industry and Jamaica showing early indications of economically game-changing oil prospects, Barbados now hopes it will be next in line.
In what is widely seen as a response to the intensifying pressure from the Trump administration, the Cuban government has hurriedly punished through a series of dramatic reforms in the past few days.
Two recent high-level conferences have highlighted China’s growing presence and influence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It’s billed as “the first Special Economic Zone of its kind in the Caribbean”, which its developers say “is expected to substantially increase the GDP of St Kitts & Nevis and the entire Eastern Caribbean.”