Five Eastern Caribbean Nations receiving the most remittance this year
By NAN Business Editor From NAN News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Oct. 31, 2016: Remittance flows or money transfers from migrants overseas continues to be a big part of foreign capital inflow into the Caribbean. Five countries in the…
Motion of no confidence against Dominica PM defeated
By Clive Bacchus West Indies News Network from Caribbean News Now ROSEAU, Dominica (WINN) — Plans by the opposition in Dominica to move a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit hit a wall on Wednesday after opposition…
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Cayman Islands ORIA Construction at Immigration Arrival Hall Commencing Monday, 26th September, the Immigration Arrival Hall at Owen Roberts International Airport will be experiencing construction works. It is likely this construction, which is expected to last for eight weeks, will…
New CBI projects in Dominica to ‘transform economy’
From Caribbean News Now ROSEAU, Dominica — Earlier this month, the government of Dominica signed agreements for three additional major developments under the citizenship by investment (CBI) programme, which it said will “transform the economy”. At a signing ceremony on…
St Kitts-Nevis passes legislation to bring relief to BAICO policyholders
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNIS) — The BAICO (Plan of Arrangement) Bill, 2016, passed into law at the sitting of the St Kitts and Nevis National Assembly on Tuesday, will “provide the legal framework to implement a plan of arrangement to…
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Help’s on the way –Commonwealth to help Caribbean access Climate Change funds
By Ravin Singh From Guyana Chronicle SUPPORT will be offered to Commonwealth Caribbean countries by the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations to assist in the process of accessing United Nations’ (UN) available funds to counter climate change.This was articulated by Commonwealth…
UKCIF Funds to rehabilitate Road Networks in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica
Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica are the first countries to access funding from the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Partnership Fund (UKCIF), as the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) have approved a grant of GBP186,000 to assist…
Cost of Dominica citizenship by investment to remain unchanged
From Caribbean News Now ROSEAU, Dominica — The prime minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, announced during his budget presentation on Tuesday that, contrary to earlier reports, the current pricing thresholds for the country’s citizenship-by-investment program will remain unchanged for 2016 With…
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More migrants arrive in Cayman Islands A total of 15 migrants arrived by boat at Rum Point, Grand Cayman, late Wednesday evening (20 July 2016) and were taken into custody after their boat engine failed. The group, originally 16, had…
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Dominica is CARICOM forerunner in renewable energy use, latest ECLAC report reveals
With renewables accounting for 28 per cent of electricity generation, Dominica is the CARICOM member which consumes the largest proportion of its energy from renewable sources according to the newly released ECLAC study ‘Barriers to Identification and Implementation of Energy…
