The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) childbirth bedside registration programme has been hailed as a regional best practice. Charlton McFarlane, the RGD’s chief executive officer, made the claim during an interview…
Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, former secretary-general of CARICOM, on Sunday (July 3) received membership in the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC) during the opening ceremony of the 43rd Regular Meeting…
Barbados national hero, pop star, entrepreneur, billionaire and new mother, Rihanna, has yet another heavyweight title under her belt, becoming Forbes’ 2022 youngest self-made billionaire. But the pop-singer-turned-beauty mogul is…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) The latest season of Netflix Inc’s Stranger Things has pushed total viewership for the series to more than 1.15 billion hours, the streaming service said today (July…
Durrant Pate/Contributor Jamaican-based investment and private equity company Proven Investments has announced a set of organisational changes including a new name change. The changes were approved at a board meeting…
Faced with the public health crisis that was the coronavirus pandemic, Jamaica’s healthcare workers rose to the challenge, exhibiting commitment, service and sacrifice in their response to contain and manage…
The following are the remarks made by outgoing chair of the Caribbean Community, John Briceno, during the 43rd Regular Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government in Suriname. When I assumed…
(REUTERS) R&B singer R. Kelly, who was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison following his sex trafficking conviction, was removed from suicide watch on Tuesday (July 5) morning at the Brooklyn jail where he is being held, federal prosecutors…
LONDON (Reuters) Britain’s finance and health ministers resigned on Tuesday (July 5), in what looked to be a final blow for Prime Minister Boris Johnson who had tried to apologise…
(REUTERS) More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources,…
(Reuters) The NFT dream isn’t dead, but it’s taken a big non-fungible beating. The market shone gloriously last year as crypto-rich speculators spent billions of dollars on the risky assets,…
The Caribbean Public Health Agency has received additional funding to the tune of US$750,000 from the Pan American Health Organization.