THE LATEST BAHAMIAN, CARIBBEAN AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
LONDON: His Excellency Ellison Greenslade, Bahamas High Commissioner to London, along with other CARICOM High Commissioners were received by Home Secretary, the Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, MP, and senior government officials …
Read MoreA VERY TALENTED BAHAMIAN IN THE DIASPORA: Chris G. Gardiner, who owns a successful accounting firm here in Washington, D.C., was actually one of the persons featured in my BAHAMIANS IN …
Read MoreKINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator Ruel Reid, says reading will help in preparing students for the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), which is scheduled to commence …
Read MoreBARBADOS — Husband and wife team of Supreme Court Registrar Barbara Cooke-Alleyne and Ramon Alleyne, who created history as the first married couple to become Queen’s Counsel, were admitted to …
Read MoreGEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are expected to complete the phasing out of the use of incandescent bulbs by September this year, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat announced …
Read MoreGUYANA — A fishing-vessel monitoring system is being implemented in Suriname in the aftermath of the recent pirate attack on 20 Guyanese fishermen, as that country grapples to regulate its …
Read MoreANTIGUA — The government has not totally abandoned the campaign to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Antigua and Barbuda’s final court of appeal, replacing the London-based Privy Council, …
Read MoreNASSAU — While the government has pulled its subvention from Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, which was relaunched privately this year as “Bahamas Carnival”, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Michael Pintard …
Read MoreNASSAU — The government has approved more than 100 applications for citizenship since the Citizenship Committee was formed in February and is on pace, if the rate is sustained, to …
Read MoreNASSAU — Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources’ officials, in response to Potter’s Cay Vendors Association on renovation plans, have dismissed the notion that nothing’s been done to renovate Potter’s …
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