Saint Lucia’s once-thriving banana industry – now a fraction of its capacity, struggling to maintain production, quality standards and revenue inflows, continues to receive much needed technical and financial support from Taiwan’s Technical Mission. Taiwan recently budgeted EC$3.2 million to Saint Lucia for the fiscal year 2021/2022, with EC$500,000 coming from the Banana Productivity Improvement […]
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), has partnered with SuperWorld, a virtual world in Augmented Reality (AR), for the first time, to release the NFT “Caribbean Disaster Fighters” collection. Caribbean Disaster Fighters is a campaign for disaster prevention and hurricane preparedness in the Caribbean region, developed by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) […]
We’ve all heard some Canadians saying, “I’m a Conservative voter (or Liberal etc). My grandfather voted PC, my father voted PC. And what’s good enough for grandpa is good enough for me.” If you give it some thought, it’s really not an unusual position to take when elections come around. On closer inspection, that […]
Tropical Storm Elsa has battered the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, downing trees and blowing off roofs as it moved through the Caribbean, killing at least three people. A 15-year-old boy and a 75-year-old woman died in separate events in the Dominican Republic last Saturday after walls collapsed on them, while a […]
The French Red Cross’ Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean has rushed 9.45 tons of various items aboard a French military vessel, Dumont d’Urville, to Guyana to assist with flood relief, the French Embassy in Suriname. The mission said the consolidated “large donation” was dispatched to Guyana “considering the recent floods and […]
The fifth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season formed over the Atlantic early Thursday. Tropical Storm Elsa has sustained winds of 40 mph and is continuing its track westward at a quick pace of 25 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, […]
By Carlton Joseph United States (US) President Joe Biden declared that “America is back” following the G7 summit of world leaders in the U.K. G7 leaders agreed to tackle China’s human rights record and climate change. They committed to donate one billion doses of Covid vaccines to poorer countries, boost global vaccine manufacturing and […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting another “above-normal” Atlantic hurricane season with 13 to 20 total named storms. NOAA predicts that six to ten of those storms were likely to become hurricanes, with wind speeds of 74 mph or higher. Likewise, the agency predicts that about 3 to 5 major hurricanes (category […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Weeks of heavy rains have flooded large parts of Guyana, turning communities into lakes, destroying farms and ranches and putting pressure on authorities to bring relief to beleaguered residents. Officials said some areas were still under two feet of water nearly two weeks after the heaviest single day of rainfall, May 27, […]
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — The government of St Vincent has moved the alert at the La Soufriere volcano from Red, the highest, to Orange, the third-highest on the four-level scale. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said on the state-owned NBC Radio on Thursday that the Cabinet made the decision a day earlier. The alert level […]
