Virtual programme on CARICOM law & the CCJ Barbados Today Traffic29/01/2022085 views The University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill, Barbados, Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services (SRC) hosted an online short course on Caribbean Community Law… Read more
St Vincent PM questions sentencing of man found guilty of sexually assaulting four-year-old Barbados Today24/01/2022079 views SOURCE: KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — St Vincent’s Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says the recent case of a man forcing a four year-old to perform a sexual act on… Read more
REGIONAL: Antonette Wemyss Gorman to be first female JDF Chief of Defence Staff Barbados Today23/01/2022066 views SOURCE: LOOP Jamaica – Commodore Antonette Wemyss Gorman is set to create history when she becomes the first woman to be appointed Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence… Read more
COVID identified in 75% of Jamaican communities Barbados Today23/01/2022069 views SOURCE: CMC — Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, is reporting that the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is now in 75 per cent of communities across the island,… Read more
Virgin Atlantic ramps up its connection in the Caribbean Marlon Madden21/01/2022079 views One of Barbados’ main airline partners out of the United Kingdom continues to ramp up connections with the Caribbean, relaunching its twice weekly service from Tobago to London Heathrow, with… Read more
Centre moves on to have Marcus Garvey exonerated Barbados Today Traffic19/01/2022069 views The P.J. Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy has added its voice to the call once again for the posthumous exoneration of the Rt. Honourable Marcus Garvey. No one has devoted… Read more
Jamaica records 24 per cent increase in murders since start of the year Barbados Today17/01/2022031 views SOURCE: CMC- Jamaica has recorded 72 murders during the first two weeks of the new year, according to figures released by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). The figures represent a… Read more
Study sheds light on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in six Caribbean countries Barbados Today16/01/2022040 views A new study on vaccine hesitancy in six Caribbean Community countries has found that those out of formal work and those who are educated to secondary level, fits the typical… Read more
Another suspect in murder of Haitian president held in Jamaica Barbados Today15/01/2022097 views SOURCE: Jamaica Observer — Jamaican police on Saturday morning arrested one of the three key suspects in the July 2021 assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise. According to information… Read more
REGIONAL: Suriname denies request from CAL to resume flights Barbados Today10/01/2022067 views SOURCE: CMC –Suriname, still peeved at the treatment meted out to its nationals by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL), is reported to have denied the airline’s request to resume flights… Read more