Caribbean leaders want to mediate peace between the US and Venezuela

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 80th session on Sept. 26, 2025. UN Photo/Loey Felipe As tensions rise between the US and Venezuela over an...

Bolivia Breaks with ALBA Under Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s Leadership After Electoral Victory and Announces Restored Ties with the U.S., Leaving the Bloc on the Brink of Collapse for Supporting Authoritarian Regimes

Bolivia’s president-elect, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, has announced the country’s immediate withdrawal from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a regional bloc driven by the governments of Cuba and Venezuela. This decision,...

Destructive pest threatens Christmas veg crop

37 Consumers face potential shortages of okra, beans and sorrel this Christmas, as a highly destructive new pest is eating its way through farms, the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed on Friday, raising fears of price hikes and supply disruptions...

J. William Middendorf II, 101, Dies; Navy Secretary and Musical Diplomat

Neither a political strategist nor a White House insider, Middendorf, an investment banker, raised millions for presidential races and was duly rewarded. He was Richard Nixon’s ambassador to the Netherlands from 1969 to 1973; Ronald Reagan’s...

Meet Five Trailblazing Women Who Shaped Black British History

October marks Black History Month in the UK - a nationwide celebration honouring Black culture and recognising the historical and contemporary contributions of Black British people. For 2025, the theme is 'Standing Firm in Power and Pride', which...

NEW YORK’S CARIBBEAN CITY: INSIDE THE ROUGHLY 2 MILLION CARIBBEAN-ORIGIN NEW YORKERS

Who they are, where they live, and how the numbers add up in the most Caribbean city in the United States New York City isn’t just a global capital; it’s the de-facto capital of the Caribbean diaspora. Using the most recent public datasets (2020...

‘You’re kind of transient’: The bittersweet life of an Erasmus Mundus master’s student

A master’s degree that offers the chance to be a student “digital nomad”, living and studying in multiple places around Europe, sounds too good to be true. I certainly thought it was in March 2023, when I was accepted into a two-year Erasmus...

Community mourns ‘trailblazer’ Baroness Ros Howells

MOVING TRIBUTES have poured in from across Britain’s Black community following the death of retired Baroness Ros Howells of St David’s, who passed away this week at the age of 94. The pioneering peer, who was born in Grenada in 1931 and settled in...

Antigua Triumphs Again as Caribbean Dinghy Champions for 2025

2025 — The sails have come down, the trophies have been raised, and history has been made. The Caribbean Sailing Association (CSA) Caribbean Dinghy Championship (CDC) 2025, hosted by the Antigua Yacht Club (AYC), concluded on Sunday after three...

New Kingstown Port inaugurated

KINGSTOWN (CMC): The new Kingstown Port opened on Saturday with the first ship calling at the facility shortly after the formalities, two days before St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) celebrated its 46th anniversary of Independence from...

Father and son duo launch music studio space after three years of success

A father and son duo have launched a much-needed music studio space for their CIC after three years of success in Northampton. Aspire Productions CIC opened its doors in the Nene Enterprise Centre in Kingsthorpe Hollow last week, after the venture...

Sports Minister calls for economic revolution

Ghana’s Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Iddie Adams, has called for a bold economic transformation of African football, urging governments and the private sector to invest massively in the sport’s commercialisation to unlock its full...

GHTA celebrates members’ success at 32nd Annual World Travel Awards

The Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association (GHTA) extends congratulations to its members recognised at the 32nd Annual World Travel Awards, held on 4 October 2025, at the Sandals Grande Saint Lucian in St Lucia. The World Travel Awards honour...

Skyscanner peers into future with Travel Trends 2026

Skyscanner has launched Travel Trends 2026, a report showcasing the seven key trends which will define travellers’ behaviour in the coming year and outlining the big trends shaping the future of travel. In 2026, travellers are curating trips that...

Oral Questions — Questions To Ministers (21 October 2025)

Press Release – Hansard Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) for 21 October 2025 Sitting date: 21 Oct 2025 ORAL QUESTIONS QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS Question No. 1—Finance 1. NANCY LU (National) to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has she seen...

Venezuela Slams Bolivia’s President-Elect for Pro-Imperialist Stance

Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz (C), 2025. X/ @me_llamo_nadie October 26, 2025 Hour: 2:45 pm On Saturday, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil criticized Bolivia’s president-elect, Rodrigo Paz, for what he called an “anti-Bolivarian,...

Tractor operator certification training to restart at GSA

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, recently visited the Guyana School of Agriculture’s (GSA) main campus at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara to discuss some of the policies that will be implemented over the next five years in order to...

Sports Minister calls for economic revolution in African football

Ghana’s Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Iddie Adams, has called for a bold economic transformation of African football, urging governments and the private sector to invest massively in the sport’s commercialisation to unlock its full...

The Caribbean Corridor: How Cocaine, Global Mafias, and Digital Crime Converge on Island Shores

The surge in Colombian cocaine production, coupled with Venezuela’s prolonged political and economic crisis, has dramatically reinforced the Caribbean as a primary drug route for illicit substances, especially cocaine, destined for the United...

Trinidad accused of breaking regional unity on ‘zone of peace’

41 Trinidad and Tobago has drawn sharp criticism from former leaders for backing United States military action in Caribbean waters, a move analysts warned on Friday could shatter the region’s long-held status as a Zone of Peace. A rare joint...