Caribbean fest expands this year with a wider focus on food, music, culture
BY SARAH RAVITS From The Advocate Celebrating the deep roots of “the northernmost Caribbean city,” NOLA Caribbean Festival is back for the seventh year with a more regional focus and a full slate of cuisine, music, dance and culture. Founder…
Inside Life: “Jamaica to UK, the Reggae Revolution”
BY VINETTE K. PRYCE From Caribbean Life “Jamaica to UK, the Reggae Revolution” themes IRD’s 2018 Celebration of 50 Years of Reggae & Synergy With England. A mention of the word reggae and folks may conjure images of red, gold…
Jamaica reaffirms infrastructure investment commitment
By NELSON A. KING From Caribbean Life Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, has reiterated the Andrew Holness government’s commitment to providing an enabling infrastructure for investment. In addressing the opening ceremony of the third staging…
Stores tricks 1
Stores use plenty of tricks to get you to spend more money. Here are some of the most common – 1 By Jessica Tyler From Business Insider Stores of all kinds use tricks to encourage shoppers to spend more money….
Radical Caribbean SR3 Cup makes regional debut in T&T
(PRESS RELEASE VIA SNO) – Regional motor racing opens an exciting new chapter next weekend (June 23/24) at the Frankie Boodram Wallerfield International Raceway in Trinidad & Tobago (T&T), when the Radical Caribbean SR3 Cup gets under way. Seasoned campaigners…
The curious case of the misdirected emails
BY CHRIS TAYLOR From Mashable This post is part of Me, online, Mashable’s ongoing series digging into online identities. In 2009, a San Francisco web strategist named Tim — last name withheld for reasons that will become clear — opened…
Jamaica: American boy drowns at Bahia Principe Hotel
From RJR NEWS online The police are probing the circumstances which led to an eight year-old American boy drowning at the Bahia Principe Hotel in Runaway Bay, St. Ann on Saturday. He has been identified as Antoine Bookard of a…
Caribbean insurers well-capitalised despite 2017 hurricane losses, says A.M. Best
By Charlie Wood From Reinsurance News A new report from A.M. Best points to the responsiveness of reinsurers as a driving factor behind Caribbean property and casualty (P/C) insurers’ ability to withstand the record-setting impact of 2017’s hurricane season, enabling…
Cayman Islands Customs enacts policy change
The Cayman Islands Customs Department has implemented a policy change with respect to the use of the Customs Declaration Form for inbound passengers at all airports and seaports, which will take effect 30th June, 2018. This includes our Customs operations…
EU/Africa, Caribbean and Pacific: towards which partnership?
By European Union From The European Sting This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. MEPs and African, Caribbean and Pacific MPs are shaping their future their partnership at a three-day ACP-EU joint parliamentary assembly in Brussels….