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Grenada’s Spicemas is cancelled

Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr Keith Mitchell, has announced the cancellation of the Spicemas carnival 2021 celebrations.

01 Mar, 2021

Pandemic hits Caribbean Airlines hard

Trinidad and Tobago State-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has recorded an operating loss of TT$738 million (KY$90.6m) for the year ending December 2020.

01 Mar, 2021

Sprinter Blake: I won’t take vaccine

Jamaica starts its covid vaccine programme this week but widespread mistrust and disinformation has led to many not wanting to take it. One who will refuse to take it if offered is sprint star Yohan Blake.

01 Mar, 2021

Jamaica promoting rum tourism

Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is calling on private sector interests to take greater advantage of the growing rum tourism niche market to generate higher growth rates in both visitor arrivals and earnings for the island in the post-COVID-19 era.

01 Mar, 2021

Antigua denounces ties with ‘sex vacation’

Antigua and Barbuda’s tourism departments are distancing themselves from a promotion dubbed ‘Room 77’, where the organisers recruit vacationers to an all-inclusive sex party on one of its islands.

01 Mar, 2021

UK TERRITORIES CONNECTION

ANGUILLA: GENERAL SERVICE TAX COMING; MONTSERRAT COVID RELIEF FUNDS; TURKS AND CAICOS GETS NEW GOVERNMENT; BERMUDA'S BURT CITES COLONIALISM

24 Feb, 2021

TURKS AND CAICOS CONTINUES SPATE OF CARIBBEAN ELECTION LANDSLIDES

Last week’s landslide election win for the Progressive National Party (PNP) of the Turks and Caicos Islands reflects a recent trend in many Caribbean countries.

24 Feb, 2021

St Lucia PM launches vaccine programme

St Lucia recently recorded three more virus-related deaths taking the death toll to 28 but at least it has started its vaccination programme in earnest.

22 Feb, 2021

Antigua still welcomes sailors, despite virus

The Antigua and Barbuda Marine Association (ABMA) has reassured visiting sailors that despite the cancellation of the iconic Antigua Sailing Week the yachting industry is still thriving, despite the effects of COVID-19.

22 Feb, 2021

Fresh hope for Jamaican gays

Jamaica should repeal its colonial-era gay sex ban, the top rights body of the Americas has said, in a symbolic landmark ruling on LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean. This ruling said Jamaica’s law violated the rights of Henry and to human treatment, equal protection before the law....

22 Feb, 2021
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