CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Wednesday June 17, 2015 – Member states of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are planning to take their integration a step further with the introduction of a swipe card that will ensure hassle-free travel betwe
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It's all systems go for this year's staging of Caribbean Fashion Week (CFW).
The runway show commence tonight at the National Indoor Sports Centre in St Andrew and Kingsley Cooper, chief executive officer of Pulse, organisers of the event, notes th
By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Usain Bolt says he is not yet ready for a duel with Justin Gatlin but is looking forward to silencing the confident American in a Beijing sprint "explosion" at the world championships in August.
While the Jamaica
Adrian McDonald is a wedding photographer by trade who is used to capturing important moments in a couple's life. Recently, however, he's gotten new-found fame for his beautifully innocent photos of his neighborhood children. While in one photo a yo
NEW YORK, United States, Friday June 5, 2015 – Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) chairman Richard Sealy says the Caribbean has “bolted out of the gates” with a six per cent increase in visitor arrivals in the first quarter of the year, and predict
WITH just over a month to go before this year's staging of Reggae Sumfest, the organisers have named their first headliner in the American rapper Common.
The artiste is riding a crest at this time following his Academy Award win for the song Glory,
By Dennis Adonis
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao -- Citing renewed evidence that cyber terrorists and hackers are now heavily targeting the Caribbean region, a three-man team of ethical hackers and cyber security trainers are expected to fly into the Netherlands |
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Thursday May 21, 2015 – The Bay Gardens Beach Resort and Spa, the Bay Gardens Hotel and the Bay Gardens Inn have received the 2015 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award.
Now in its fifth year, the award celebrates excellen
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday May 19, 2015 – The Caribbean continues to hold its own in international travel and tourism surveys, recently landing two out of 10 places in the PrivateFly Best Airport Approaches 2015 poll.
PrivateFly, a global bookin
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thursday May 14, 2015 – Everything is on track for Jamaicans to have the option of switching telephone providers without losing their numbers.
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell said all the requi
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, Monday May 4, 2015 – Starting this summer, making a splash in St Lucia will be more fun than ever when Reduit Beach in Rodney Bay Village becomes the home of the Eastern Caribbean’s first open-water sports park.
Billed “one of
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Monday April 27, 2015 – The 24th annual St Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival gets underway this week, raising the curtain on 11 days of music and an explosion of visual arts and crafts at various venues islandwide.
The festival blasts
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday April 24, 2015, CMC – In an effort to preserve coral reefs in Jamaica’s ecosystem, the Sandals Foundation says it will be providing funding for coral reef restoration projects here.
The foundation said the aim is to combat
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Wednesday April 1, 2015, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it will take full ownership of the petroleum company, West Indies Oil Company Limited (WIOC).
A government statement said that Prime Minister Gaston Browne
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Wednesday April 15, 2015, IPS - Jabberwock beach, located on the northeastern coast of Antigua, features a mile-long white sand beach and is a favourite with locals and visitors alike.
But Freeston Williams, a resident who freq
For the first time in more than half a century, the presidents of the United States and Cuba met face to face Saturday, formalizing their joint bid to restore diplomatic ties and break from the nations’ Cold War past, an effort President Obama said c
US President Barack Obama (L) speaks during a bilateral meeting with Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller at Jamaica House on April 9, 2015 in Kingston (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - President Barack Obama said US relat
Havana (AFP) - Cuba is far from seeing a McDonald's or Starbucks open any time soon, but the diplomatic thaw with the United States is bringing more American visitors to the sweltering island.
While the US embargo against Havana still forbids regul
President Barack Obama tours the Bob Marley Museum led by tour guide Natasha Clark (2nd-L) in Kingston, Jamaica, on April 8, 2015. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
President Barack Obama made an unannounced stop at the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston, J