The Antigua and Barbuda government has received 200 high-tech COVID-19 bracelets which will be used to monitor people’s movements in quarantine.
Jamaica’s Opposition Leader Mark Golding sought to show he held no grudges by appointing controversial People's National Party Vice-President Damion Crawford to his 19-person shadow cabinet.
Virgin Atlantic has joined the trend of offering pre-departure COVID-19 tests to passengers. The airline launched the testing trial on select flights from London Heathrow to Barbados on Wednesday.
Guyana is planning to build a second city, partly because the huge oil income it will soon generate will attract many people looking to build a new life there. The capital Georgetown is the sole city, with a population of 120,000 out of a total population of 780,000.
The cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, last Monday resumed its commercial schedule with flights operating to a limited number of destinations.
The British Virgin Islands government says it has strengthened cooperation with the United Nations ahead of losing future European Union support for sustainable development at the end of 2020 when the Brexit transition period expires.
The Trinidad and Tobago government has deported 160 Venezuelans who had illegally entered the island. Trinidad has seen a huge influx of Venezuelans in recent months which has become a huge social and political issue there.
Dominica has been shortlisted by National Geographic on its ‘Best of the World’ 2021 travel List.
Cuban authorities broke up a protest by a group of dissident artists, academics, journalists and activists by evicting them from their headquarters where they had declared a hunger strike against curbs on civil liberties.
Antigua and Barbuda has placed a temporary ban on the importation of all poultry from the United Kingdom because of an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N8). Other Caribbean countries may do the same.