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OECS Health Ministers discuss “Health System…

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 — The 7th Annual meeting of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Council of Ministers: Health convened virtually on Wednesday, 24th November 2021. The Meeting…

12-year wait pays off for wife of former PM

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP): Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted former President Mel Zelaya, has taken a commanding lead in Honduras’ elections, capping a 12-year effort. If preliminary…

Farmers who suffer loss due to climate change to…

ST JOHN’S (CMC): An insurance scheme being facilitated by the Department of Environment (DoE) will be making funds available to farmers who have encountered major losses over the years due to natural…

Caribbean countries adopt first-ever global…

PARIS (CMC): The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says the Caribbean and all other member states have adopted a historic agreement that defines the common…

Antigua to End State of Emergency on December 23

The Antigua and Barbuda government says the state of emergency (SOE) put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus will end on December 23, but the established COVID-19 protocols “shall still…

OECS Celebrates 16 Days of Activism Against…

Media Release Thursday, November 25, 2021 — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission joins the international community in recognition of the 16 Days of Activism Against…

Woman wins trip to space

ST JOHN’S (CMC): An Antiguan woman will be going to space, possibly with her daughter, after winning two seats aboard a Virgin Galactic’s commercial space flight. Keisha Schahaff was announced the…

OECS Authority Statement on the situation in…

Media Release Thursday, November 25, 2021 — Chairman of the OECS Authority Prime Minister The Right Honourable Dr. Keith Mitchell has issued an appeal for calm and reasoned dialogue in the French…

Antigua Offers 50% Severance To Former LIAT…

Source: CMC CMC:- The Antigua and Barbuda government has announced its support for an offer of 50 percent of the severance pay owed to former employees of the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT. A…

More than half of adult population vaccinated…

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government on Monday said that it has fully vaccinated more than half of the country’s adult population against the COVID-19 pandemic as the country registered more deaths…

PAHO Director says 99% COVID patients dying are…

This time the Director of PAHO (Pan American Health Organisation) – Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, was invited by Dominican Prime Minister – Roosevelt Skerrit at his weekly show – ‘Annou Pale’ on Sunday,…

Caribbean Community Chair Urges Legal Action On…

News Americas, LONDON, England, Mon. Nov. 15, 2021: Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Caricom chairman Gaston Browne is among small island states dissatisfied the fund they had called for had…

CARICOM looking to US for COVID-19 pills and…

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he has instructed the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat to seek vaccines and pills from the United States government as…