GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Monday December 28, 2015 – The Ascend Hotel Collection from Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, announced continued Caribbean growth with the addition of the elegant 25-room

BEIJING, China, Friday December 17, 2015 – Air China will fly directly to Cuba for the first time later this month, with 300 passengers expected on board the inaugural flight.

Cuba’s Tourism Ministry announced that the Boeing 777 will touch down in

Eager to own a piece of their native homeland, Cuban Americans are placing their bets on the island’s underground foreign real estate market.

It is still illegal -- according to both U.S. and Cuban law -- for Americans to purchase property in Cub

HAVANA, Cuba — In this December 4, 2015 photo, collective taxis drive along Neptuno Street as it rains in Havana, Cuba. Those in favor of the warming in relations with the US are hoping that the anniversary of the presidential announcements will add

Health Minister Horace Dalley (right) and with Cuban Ambassador His Excellency Bernardo Hernandez (left) sign two Technical Cooperation Agreements between Cuba and Jamaica.

File Photo: Kenyan Farmer

ANSE-LA-RAYE, St. Lucia, thursday December 3, 2015, IPS – In the Caribbean, some women find themselves on the frontline with the battle to mitigate climate change. Meet Dr. Krystal Cox. She is one of three  girls who all st

Minister of Education Rev Ronald Thwaites (left), congratulates some of the recipients of UC Rusal scholarships, valued at over $100 million, to study in Russia, at the presentation ceremony held on Tuesday at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday November 17, 2015 – Another US$200 million has been pumped into the tourism sector by international investors for the construction of two five-star hotels, and wi

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Sunday November 14, 2015 – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Friday November 6, 2015 – Government-backed candidate Jovenel Moïse and former government executive Jude Célestin will face off in Haiti’s presidential run-off next month.

Preliminary results announced yesterday by the Provisi

THE United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from clothing companies claiming legal rights to sell shirts with the image of reggae icon Bob Marley.

According to The Associated Press on Monday, the Supreme Court let a lower court ruling sta

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday October 29, 2015 – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Board of Directors has approved US$7.75 million in financing to improve access to tertiary education in Barbados and to strengthen the business operations of the

The Rock's 'sub-10 king' Asafa Powell is stripping down and baring it all in his 2014 calendar which hits the stands today for a mere $1,500. Now, fans and admirers of the Olympian can have a little piece of the sculpted athlete to hold on to as eac

FOR 21-year-old Jade Arscott, a world without dance is unfathomable.

Ever since she was two-years-old, Arscott has wanted to dance. She recalls watching dancers on television and telling her mother, 'that is what I want to do'.

Seeing her daughter's

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Friday October 16, 2015 – The completion of four major developments in the tourism industry in St. Kitts and Nevis by 2018 is expected to generate hundreds of job opportunities for the local population.

That’s according to Min

By: Jill Lawless - AP

LONDON (AP) — Marlon James became the first Jamaican winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday with a vivid, violent, exuberant and expletive-laden novel based on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.

Mich

Mike Pyke (seated left), programmes manager, Sandals Resorts International; Omar Sweeney (seated centre), managing director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF); and Andre Wilson, president, Youth for Development Network, sign the memorandum of un

The United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker has arrived in Cuba for two days of talks focusing on the US embargo on the communist-run island.

Ms Pritzker will discuss recent measures approved by the US to mitigate the impact of the embarg