Strategies for the quick recovery of Caribbean economies from the devastation wrought by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will be discussed by regional and global stakeholders at a virtual forum on Friday. The event is being hosted by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), the Barbados-based...
BUJU Banton won the Best Reggae Act award at last night's virtual Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards in London, England. The event was streamed live on the MOBO Awards's YouTube channel and later aired on BBC One. This was Buju Banton's first win and his third...
President Nicolas Maduro hailed a "new dawn" in Venezuela on Monday as he celebrated his now total grip on power following a predictable triumph in polls boycotted by the opposition and slammed as a farce by international powers. Victory for Maduro's ruling Socialist Party in Sunday's...
Another person has died from the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Jamaica while 76 new cases of the virus were recorded in the last 24 hours. The latest death is a 90-year-old man from St James, bringing the country's death toll to 260. Another death was also reported...
"First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned." That's how many on Martinique see the history of their French Caribbean island that, to tourists, means sun, rum, and palm-fringed beaches. Slavery was abolished in 1848. But today the islanders are victims again - of a...