New skills for government statisticians in Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts and Nevis
From ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (ECLAC) SUBREGIONAL HEADQUARTERS FOR THE CARIBBEAN The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) are jointly hosting a…
Chinese fast-tracking megaresort sale, says Bahamas PM
By Krystel Rolle-Brown Nassau Guardian Staff Reporter From Caribbean News Now NASSAU, Bahamas — Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie on Friday revealed that the China Export-Import (EXIM) Bank is fast-tracking its process to find a buyer for the troubled multibillion…
Impartial check confirms St. Maarten survey fraud
By Suzanne Koelega From The Daily Herald LEIDEN–An independent check carried out on the request of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies KITLV has confirmed that St. Maarten interviewers have committed fraud during the local survey…
Panama Papers: remarkable global media operation holds rich and powerful to account
Author Paul Lashmar Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Sussex From The Conversation Disclosure statement Paul Lashmar is part of a research group that is funded by ESRC and have been part of a research team that received a grant…
Homeinns Hotel Group announces completion of going private transaction
SHANGHAI, April 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Homeinns Hotel Group (‘Homeinns’ or the ‘Company’) (NASDAQ: HMIN), a leading economy hotel chain in China, announced today the completion of its merger (the ‘Merger’) with BTG Hotels Group (CAYMAN) Holding Co., Ltd (‘Merger…
Guyana becomes 57th member of the Islamic Bank
By Ray Chickrie From Caribbean News Now GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is now a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), after joining the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 1998, according to a press release from the ministry of finance…
Will Cuba’s rise obscure other Caribbean destinations?
By Brian Major From Travel Pulse Word on the street is some Caribbean travel stakeholders are looking over their shoulders following President Obama’s recent measures to ease travel and commerce between the U.S. and Cuba, all highlighted by his recent…
DB: To grow, Caribbean must lower its high energy costs
From Herald Tribune Latin America WASHINGTON – The Caribbean has “the world’s highest energy costs,” which hinder its productivity, and so it is vital to develop new sources of power generation, as Jamaica and Dominica are doing, the Inter-American Development…
Why Trinidad denied entry to 12 Jamaicans
From Caribbean News Service PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 02 2016 – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it had prevented 12 Jamaican nationals from entering the island late last month because they were “deemed likely to become charges on public funds”….
Cayman Islands’ hospital treats two Bolivian boys
CARIBBEAN HOSPITAL TREATS TWO BOLIVIAN BOYS CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 31, 2016) – The skill and success rates of the surgical teams at Health City Cayman Islands are well known in medical circles in the Caribbean, but it is their humanitarian…
