HAVANA, Cuba, Friday September 11, 2015, IPS – Young people in Cuba are anxiously awaiting an acceleration of the informatisation of society, which is apparently moving ahead at the same pace as the current reform process, “without haste, but withou
About 100 Cuban doctors who deserted a medical mission in Venezuela and have been stranded for months in Colombia seeking entry into the US staged a protest Saturday to draw attention to their plight.
The health care workers say they fear the delays
FANS TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF POP ARTIST RIHANNA AS SHE GETS ON AN AMERICAN CLASSIC CAR AFTER A PHOTO SHOOT WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ANNIE LEIBOVITZ IN HAVANA, CUBA ON FRIDAY. (PHOTO: HOY.COM)
HAVANA, Cuba
Barbados’ pop princess Rihanna caused a stir while crui
The People’s National Movement’s fourth leader, Dr Keith Rowley, now Prime Minister-elect, will be T&T’s second Tobago-born Prime Minister following yesterday’s 2015 general election victory.
Rowley follows Tobago-born late Prime Minister Arthur NR
BARBADOS’ MINISTER OF CULTURE JOINS IN WITH THE TUK BAND AT GRAND MARKET DURING CARIFESTA. (PHOTOS PROVIDED BY NCF/SHANGO FILMS)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Friday August 28, 2015 – Barbados is exploring the possibility of creating a cultural agreement
FLORIDA, United States, Saturday September 4, 2015 – Tropical Storm Grace has formed in the Atlantic and is expected to strengthen some more before possibly weakening to a remnant low by the time it reaches the Caribbean next week.
Grace formed this
Masanori Nakano, ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, takes in the aroma of Blue Mountain coffee at the head office of the Coffee Industry Board in Kingston on Monday.
Rising levels of coffee consumption in Japan mark the end of a post-recession slump in
STELLA JEAN - HAITI'S FASHION TREASURE
By Walter Greene
The name STELLA JEAN may not be popular among the US or Caribbean fashion circles....as yet, but, in Italy and throughout Europe, as well as pockets around the world including Africa, Stella Je
A SCENE FROM THE DISASTER HIT PETITE SAVANNE. (PHOTO FROM DEBRA FRANCIS’ FACEBOOK PAGE)
ROSEAU, Dominica, Monday August 31, 2015 – Government has ordered the evacuation of Petite Savanne, a village on the southeast of the island that was the worst
BEIJING, China — Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the World Championship as Jamaica swept both 4x100m relays in another display of dominant sprinting at the Bird's Nest stadium here yesterday.
Bolt, who now has a record 11 gold, helping Jamai
BEIJING (AP)
For Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100 meters, this was no big deal. There was so much daylight between Fraser-Pryce and the runner-up, the Jamaican could have walked the last few steps and still taken gold.
For Molly Huddle in 10,00
By: Tom Fordyce - BBC Sports
From a man who has delighted in pulling off the impossible, this was perhaps the greatest miracle of all.
We often compare Usain Bolt to Muhammad Ali - not for his political convictions but his charisma, for the effect h
Shelly Ann & Usain Bolt Go For The Win At World Champs #TeamJamaica
Native Jamaican runners Shelly-Ann Fraser and Usain Bolt are doing great things. Like Bolt, Fraser-Pryce came into the event with two Olympic and two world titles in the 100. And afte
Usain Bolt produced perhaps his greatest miracle of all as he put a troubled build-up behind him to beat two-time doper and clear favourite Justin Gatlin to retain his world 100m title. The controversial Gatlin came into the final on a 28-race u
BEIJING (AFP) - Usain Bolt comes to the world championships in Beijing caught in the crosshairs of controversial rival Justin Gatlin in what promises to be one of the closest fought sprint rivalries seen in a long time.
Bolt has dominated sprinting
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry called for a “genuine democracy” in Cuba on Friday as the American flag was raised here for the first time in more than half a century, formally reopening the U.S. Embassy and beginning what the Obama administrat
WATER for Your Soul, the seventh album by British soul singer Joss Stone, has topped the Billboard Reggae Album Chart. The 14-track set was co-produced by Stone, Damian Marley, Steve Greenwell, Conner Reeves and Jonathan Shorten.
Stone met Marley w
In this July 25, 2015 photo, a woman in costume prepares for the carnival parade to start in Santiago, Cuba. Low visitor numbers to Santiago are raising concerns that a rising tide of tourist dollars will leave some areas of Cuba booming and others
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Monday August 10, 2015, IPS – Award-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte thinks that Caribbean nationals should view the Earth as their mother.
“For me, the whole thing is so basic: the earth that we are livi
A couple of youths cycle past the U.S yacht Still Waters, moored at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. “The elimination of restrictions on nautical tourism by the U.S. government appears as if it will happen over the short
