Digicel benefits from sun2com solar energy solution
PV Energy installs sun2com systems for Caribbean mobile phone network provider Steady developments of new technologies as well as an increasing need of staying online and connected on an international level require reliable internet and mobile phone connections – even…
Caribbean Week NY 2016
The Caribbean will again display its collective holiday attributes to New Yorkers and visitors to the “Big Apple”, reminding them why the Region is a most desirable warm weather destination, as the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) returns for Caribbean Week….
Haiti’s water crisis reveals failure of government
By Henry Beaucejour From Caribbean News Now If Canada is considered to be the best country in the world to live in, then without a doubt Haiti with all of its very big problems, political, economic and social, must currently…
Caribbean Tourism Organization launches 30 Days of Caribbean Romance campaign
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, 1 June, 2016 – A month-long campaign in observance of the Caribbean Year of Romance gets underway today. The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), which declared 2016 the Year of Romance, today launches a social media campaign dubbed, 30…
EgyptAir crash: Black box signal detected by search teams
From BBC Signals have been detected from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, French investigators have confirmed. They were picked up by the French vessel Laplace as it was searching the Mediterranean Sea….
Heading to boiling point – regional climatologist says Caribbean to get hotter, may lead to heat stress
By Anastasia Cunningham From Jamaica Gleaner WITH DATA showing that the world is getting hotter, governments across the Caribbean are being warned to seriously plan for the impact of heat stress on their populations. A predominantly tropical climate environment, heat…
St Kitts-Nevis financial secretary addresses de-risking banking issue
From Caribbean News Now BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNIS) — The threats to the region’s banking sector due to de-risking could have disastrous implications for the Caribbean region and as such Hilary Hazel, financial secretary in St Kitts, has shed some…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Decisive challenge for Caricom
By Rickey Singh, From Nationnews Barbados IN RESPONSE to the governance challenges his fledgling Jamaica Labour Party administration faces as it cautiously navigates the country out of very difficult economic and social challenges, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has opted to…
This deconstructed coffee is peak hipsterdom and how the world ends
BY JOHNNY LIEU From Mashable So, this is it folks. It’s been saaah cool sipping on a flat white or the macchiato willy-nilly, but now there’s a coffee out there that could signal the irreversible decline of our once productive…
Presidential Proclamation — National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, 2016
NATIONAL CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2016 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The dynamism and diversity of Caribbean Americans have contributed to our Nation’s story in extraordinary ways. Millions…