Project financing in the era of derisking in the Caribbean
From NAN News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Oct. 7, 2017: There is no denying that new global banking rules, especially derisking in the Caribbean, has started to seriously impact developers and even governments seeking to borrow for that next…
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Two new ships for Royal Caribbean International’s New Earth-Friendly Icon Class
From Travel Pulse On Monday, Royal Caribbean Cruises announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with shipbuilder Meyer Turku to build two new 5,000-passenger vessels for the company. The two new ships will be classified in a new line…
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej dead at 88
From BBC Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years as head of state. The 88-year-old king was widely revered but had been in poor health in recent years, making few public appearances. He was…
City of North Las Vegas Mayor joins Latin and Caribbean Community at Las Vegas Latin Caribbean Carnival Press Conference
From Houston Style Magazine Las Vegas, NV_10/5/2016 Members of the Las Vegas Valley’s growing Latin, Caribbean and West Indian community were joined by North Las Vegas City Mayor, John Lee, on Monday October 3 2016 at a press conference at…
Negative news hurts Caribbean Banks, creditworthiness — Bank Exec
By Neville Graham From The Jamaica Gleaner Jean-Pierre Saint Victor, an executive at BNY Mellon, is warning that a proliferation of negative news has consequences for a country’s creditworthiness and correspondent banking relationships. He says such information accumulates against the…
Madonsela leaving with a touch of cynicism – ‘Humans just lie with a straight face’ #News24Thuli
By Jenni Evans, From News24 Johannesburg – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela says that while her seven years in office have been “epic”, she will be leaving with a touch of cynicism. “I leave a little cynical about human beings,” Madonsela…
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$25,000 in OGHS Emergency Funds being sent to IM’s Caribbean Partners for Hurricane Matthew relief
From American Baptist Churches USA VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 10/7/16)—Initial grants totaling $25,000 in One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) emergency relief funds are on their way to American Baptist International Ministries (IM) partners in Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean…
Cartoon of the week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
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20 years of Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean
From Reliefweb Located over the Pacific’s Nazca tectonic plate, the North American plate and the Caribbean plate which are constantly shifting, the region suffers frequent, powerful earthquakes that devastate the region; in April 2015, Ecuador was shaken by a magnitude…
Caribbean rolls out relief efforts after Hurricane Matthew
By Bert Wilkinson From Amsterdam News Now that Hurricane Matthew, one of the deadliest storms to have roared through the Caribbean and the U.S. in more than a decade, has made landfall in Florida, relief officials at the Caribbean’s main…
