Caribbean Night After Work Lime kicks off
Welcome to the new ‘Caribbean’ lime, all Caribbean people are welcome. Come and enjoy francophonic music, including zouk, cadence, bouyon as well as African genres such as high life, soukous, kompas and our Spanish influence with merengue. For soca lovers you won’t be left out as there’ll be lots of St Lucian soca for your enjoyment. […]
Sperm whales of Caribbean speak with an accent
A decade-long survey has shown that sperm whales in the Caribbean region communicate with a particular accent that is exclusive to the area ‘There is a specific dialect in the Caribbean which is not produced anywhere else in the world,’ says Dr Shane Gero, Research Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, who has been studying Caribbean […]
British PM uncomfortable about father’s Caribbean investments
David Cameron has refused to say whether any of his family’s money is still held offshore in a Caribbean tax haven after it emerged that his late father Ian ran an offshore fund which avoided paying tax in Britain by hiring Bahamanian residents, including a bishop, to sign paperwork. Mr Cameron’s family links to an […]
Montserrat government finds support in the UK APPG
Premier, The Honourable Donaldson Romeo and Hon. Minister and Deputy Premier Delmaude Ryan along with Hon. Ag. Financial Secretary Lindorna Brade and Permanent Secretary to the Premier Camille Gerald were in the United Kingdom (UK) from Friday, Nov 27 2015 attending primarily the Joint Ministerial (JMC) Council’s fourth annual meeting which took place on December […]
Chris Gayle – Six Machine: I Don’t Like Cricket, I Love It
Gayle adorns the cover of his hotly anticipated memoir, which goes on sale in June. Except for his continued headline-making batting prowess on the international stage with his Windies teammates, we haven’t heard much from superstar sportsman Chris Gayle since ‘Blushgate’ became the scandal that ate the world. But we knew it was only a […]
Les Fruits de Mer Launches Rhum Biologique
April 1, 2016—Grand Case—It started with a chance discovery and a quirk of Caribbean biological research. During the development of their free pop-up natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis, members of Les Fruits de Mer found a cache of antique biological specimens in the attic of the building and a product was born: Rhum Biologique. “Strong […]
Caribbean banking: Defending rights, resisting unfair practices
In January coincidental to my assuming the Presidency of the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS), I met, in Washington DC, the Prime Minister of Belize, Deane Barrow, who had just taken on the responsibility of Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government. Mr Barrow was in DC to meet […]
CSG Designate Patricia Scotland to address Caribbean conference
29 March 2016 – The Right Honourable Patricia Scotland QC, who later this week takes office as the sixth Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, will today give an opening address to the 15th Conference of Presidents and Governors-General of the Caribbean region in Antigua and Barbuda. In a special video message released earlier this […]
Woman with world’s longest dreadlocks finds love
The woman with the world’s longest dreadlocks has found love with a hair stylist whose massive dreadlocks rival her own. Real-life ‘Rasta-Rapunzel’, Asha Mandela, has locks that measure a lengthy 55ft – longer than a London bus. Now the 50-year-old, from Florida, has found a match made in heaven with new husband, Emmanuel Chege, a […]
BVI receives UN support to reduce family violence
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The Government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) says it is receiving assistance in its efforts to reduce family violence from the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN Women). A government statement issued recently said UN Women consultant Jacqueline Sealy-Burke facilitated a […]