The University of the West Indies (UWI) on Thursday announced that it has evolved as a “multi-lingual” institution, with a new policy that will require all new undergraduate students to take up a foreign language and become “conversation competent”. The requirement comes under The UWI’s Foreign...
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) conferred an Honorary Doctor of Law to Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves at a special ceremony recently. The Vincentian Prime Minister at the time was visiting the campus in Lampeter where he...
National Security Minister Michael Weeks says Bermuda is facing a “crisis” in gang violence and “candid discussions” need to be held with stakeholders to resolve the problem. Weeks added that the issue of violence “is the proverbial 800-lb elephant in the room that poses a threat...
Cuba remained in the dark early Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out its power grid and devastated some of the country's most important tobacco farms when it hit the island's western tip as a major storm. Authorities were working overnight to gradually restore service to the...
A strengthening Hurricane Ian's rain and winds lashed Cuba's western tip, where authorities have evacuated 50,000 people, as it became a major Category 3 storm early Tuesday and roared on a path that could see it hit Florida's west coast as a Category 4 hurricane. The...