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Delaware doctors to provide medical aid to Caribbean island in wake of Hurricane Maria
By Meredith Newman, The News Journal A group of Delaware doctors plan to head to the Caribbean in the coming weeks to provide medical aid in the wake of disastrous Hurricane Maria. Dr. Reynold Agard, a Newark internist and president…
Prayer urged as natural disasters strike Mexico and Caribbean islands
From Anglican News More than 225 people have been killed and many more injured following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico yesterday (Tuesday). It comes as the wider region is battered by Hurricane Maria – the fourth hurricane to…
T&T mobilising to send help to devastated Dominica
From Trinidad Express …coast guard, defence force preparing This Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, GOES East satellite image provided by NASA taken at 20:30 UTC, shows the eye of Hurricane Maria as it nears Dominica. The National Hurricane Center in Miami…
Hurricane Maria ‘devastates’ Dominica: PM
From BBC Dominica has suffered “widespread damage” from Hurricane Maria, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says, as the storm hammers neighbouring Guadeloupe. “We have lost all that money can buy,” Mr Skerrit said in a Facebook post. The hurricane suddenly strengthened…
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DOMINICA – $670,000 pledged to Barbuda recovery
From Caribbean News Service Dominica has pledged over half a million Eastern Caribbean dollars to help recovery efforts in Antigua and Barbuda. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit arrived in Antigua on Sunday with other OECS counterparts in a show of solidarity…
Irma: Cuba sends hundreds of doctors to Caribbean islands devastated by hurricane
By Shehab Khan From Independent UK More than 750 health workers arrive in Antigua, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia, the Bahamas, Dominica and Haiti More than 750 health workers have arrived in Antigua, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia,…
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Dominica holds talks with ECCAA on international airport plans
From Caribbean News Service ROSEAU, Dominica, Aug 02 2017 – The Director General of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA), Donald McPhail, has held talks with the Dominica government on the development plans for an international airport for the…
Bronx Lebanon hospital shooter’s Caribbean link
From NAN News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. July 3, 2017: The Nigerian-born doctor who killed a Chinese-American doctor and injured 6 others at Bronx Lebanon Hospital in NYC Friday had a link to the Caribbean, according to his academic…
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IMF working paper examines energy investments in the Caribbean
From Jamaica Observer WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – Caribbean countries where fiscal vulnerabilities remain acute, like Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and St Lucia, are not well-positioned to finance energy investments through public resources, since these might derail necessary fiscal adjustment…
Caribbean Development Bank announces projects across the region
From WIC News The board of directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) have announced a the approval of a number of projects across the region. Members met in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, last week to discuss future plans….
