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GTA CEO embarks on strategic engagements across tourism sector
Since officially assuming her role on 15 June, Stacey Liburd, Chief Executive Officer of the Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA), has prioritised building relationships with key tourism stakeholders across both the public and private sectors. To...
Owner: Nigel Mathlin
FRS Express ferry service resumes full service; charter flight for affected parties from St Lucia to DA
Dominica News Online - Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 at 4:05 PM Desma PatrickMarketing Officer at H.H.V Whitchurch & Co. Ltd, Desma Patrick, has reassured passengers of FRS Express Des Iles that the service is fully up and running once again....
Owner: Timothy Durand
Tourist hotspots hit with 'terrible stench' that could ruin Brits' beach holidays
A grim problem with a "terrible" stench could put a dampener on holiday plans for Brits dreaming of the Caribbean's golden sands. An invasion of sargassum seaweed has blanketed a massive stretch of coastline in the Americas, from Puerto Rico to...
Owner: Reach PLC
iciHaiti - FAd'H : 30 soldiers sent for training in Martinique
iciHaiti - FAd’H : 30 soldiers sent for training in Martinique 22/07/2025 09:55:48 On Monday, July 21, 2025, as part of the Haitian Armed Forces' institutional capacity building policy and the SABRE military partnership between France and Haiti, a...
Owner: Joseph Marcellus
French-Caribbean reggae singer Yaniss Odua fires up ‘Lighta’
French-Caribbean reggae artiste Yaniss Odua is ecstatic that his latest single, Lighta, is blowing up in the Jamaican market, with the video for the project racking up over 672,000 views on YouTube since its release. “I am feeling great because...
Owner: RJRGLEANER Communications Group
Stay In The Magic: A Review Of Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort
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Guests visiting Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, ... More Fla.Harrison Cooney, Photographer “There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual...
Owner: Integrated Whale Media Investment & other shareholders
Panton, Gregg, Swann set for final Rally2 clash
68 Nine testing special stages in the north of the island on Sunday will settle the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) 2025 Rally2 Championship in what is expected to be an exciting double-header final with just 17 points separating the top...
Owner: Peter Harris
Caribbean beaches blighted by record masses of stinking seaweed
A record amount of sargassum has piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new study. The brown prickly algae is suffocating shorelines from Puerto Rico to Guyana and beyond, disrupting...
Owner: The Scott Trust
Minister Green Hails Jamaica Conch Cluster Project’s Contribution To Sustainable Fisheries
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, on Thursday (May 29), applauded members of the Jamaica Conch Cluster (JCC) Project for their achievements. These include establishing the world’s first and only Marine Stewardship...
Owner: Jamaican Government
Transat Café L'or: Saturday start for Ocean Fifty
by Transat Café L'OR 24 Oct 10:56 PDT 25 October 2025 The Ocean Fifty class and all its skippers have requested to advance their start to the Transat Café L'Or race which was originally scheduled for Sunday, October 26th. They point to the weather...
Owner: Mark Jardine & Rory Heron
NY group launches Caribbean Diaspora Permanent Natural Disaster Fund
Trinidad and Tobago Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, center in tangerine outfit, with members of the New York-based Caribbean Diaspora United, Inc. (CDU). Photo by Nelson A. King Given the region’s vulnerability to hurricanes and...
Owner: Victoria & Joshua Schneps
99% trade tariff! Trump’s tariff algorithm triggers heaviest duty on this French island, critics call it ‘insane’
A remote French island with barely 6,000 residents has just become the most tariffed place on earth—thanks to what critics are calling a “bizarre” trade formula from the White House. St. Pierre et Miquelon, a French overseas territory off the...
Owner: Purie Family
‘First ship’ nonprofit’s new director brings deep draft of maritime experience
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Maine’s First Ship, a Bath nonprofit that provides education and sailing programs using its reconstruction of the 1607 sailing ship Virginia, got a boatload of maritime education experience in the recent hire of its executive director. Alicia...
Owner: Peter Stanton
Minister Dr Clarke Welcomes Global Delegates to GIS in Saint Kitts and Nevis and Champions Climate Action
Basseterre, Saint Kitts (SKNIS): At the official opening ceremony of the Global Sustainable Islands Summit (GSIS) held on May 27, 2025, at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort the Honourable Dr. Joyelle Clarke, Minister of Sustainable Development,...
Owner: Peter James
Eventide fusion: French‑Caribbean and Indian classical entwine
As Calcutta’s humid morning teased the city with a light drizzle and the smell of wet earth and old stone engulfed the metropolis, the 211-year-old Indian Museum, the Doric columned colonial edifice in the centuries-old enduring charming city...
Owner: Rajender Parshad Gupta, Ravindra Kumar, Amit Gupta
Minister Dr. Clarke Welcomes Global Delegates To GSIS In Saint Kitts And Nevis And Champions Climate Action
- Advertisement - Basseterre, Saint Kitts – At the official opening ceremony of the Global Sustainable Islands Summit (GSIS) held on May 27, 2025, at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort the Honourable Dr. Joyelle Clarke, Minister of Sustainable...
Owner: Kenneth Williams
Surinamese banana exports back in focus for Europe
"We are a 'price maker' in the region and we would like to keep it that way," says Nitesh Ramlakhan, Director of Production Operations at Food and Agriculture Industries (FAI). As Suriname's only banana plantation, the company occupies a unique...
Owner: Pieter Boekhout
Minister Dr. Clarke welcomes global...
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Basseterre, Saint Kitts, May 27, 2025 (SKNIS): At the official opening ceremony of the Global Sustainable Islands Summit (GSIS) held on May 27, 2025, at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort the Honourable Dr. Joyelle Clarke, Minister of Sustainable...
Owner: Stachio Williams
Tourism turmoil elsewhere in U.S. but little pain here in Vero
Confusing federal policy announcements and public statements that offended many Canadians all combined to strike a serious blow to U.S. tourism this spring, but Vero Beach, which often seems to exist in a charmed bubble, largely bucked the trend....
Owner: Milton Benjamin
Trump's Tariffs Target Uninhabited Islands, Economic Dead Zones, and Individual Regions of France
If you've ever played the online game Worldle, where players guess a country based on its silhouette, you'll know the frustrating experience of failing to accurately identify the day's blob that turns out to be some insignificant island territory....
Owner: Reason Foundation