Editorial credit: Roy De La Cruz / Shutterstock.com By Arya Sundaram | December 15, 2023 | Gothamist New York City’s budget watchdog estimates it will cost $6 billion to 7.8 billion to care for the city’s migrants over the next two years, up to $4.8 billion less than what the mayor’s office forecast in August. The new […]
By Sir Ronald Sanders COP28 in Dubai, presided over by a major oil-producing nation, has ended with a compromise that, depending on one’s perspective, either represents a milestone or underscores the persistent inadequacies in confronting the climate crisis. From the standpoint of small developing countries, grappling with the existing damaging impact and the continuing threats […]
Editorial credit: Nelson Antoine / Shutterstock.com By The Associated Press | December 12, 2023 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said park rangers […]
Antigua and Barbuda and Qatar have signed an air services agreement that will enable airlines to operate commercial and cargo flights between both countries. The agreement was signed by Mohamed Falah Al-Hajri, Qatar’s Acting Undersecretary of the General Authority of Civil Aviation, and Brian Challenger, Antigua and Barbuda’s Senior Technical Advisor at the Ministry of […]
St Kitts and Nevis (“St Kitts”) launched its first citizenship by investment (“CBI”) program in 1984 for eligible individuals and their families to gain full legal citizenship of the country. On 27 July 2023, St Kitts government announced major changes affecting almost all aspects of their CBI program. Nonetheless, this program continues to offer investors […]
The Government of Dominica signed an agreement with Ormat Technologies for the construction and maintenance of the 10W Geothermal Power Plant in Laudat. The agreement was signed during a special ceremony earlier this week. The agreement was signed by Minister of Renewable Energy Vince Henderson and Minister for the Environment, Rural Modernization and Kalinago Upliftment […]
Editorial credit: Eliyahu Yosef Parypa / Shutterstock.com Caribbean Airlines, which has invested in new planes, new routes, new destinations, and has upgraded cargo and in-flight commerce, is seeking a bigger support team to sell its flight product. Consequently, the airline company opened a call last month for call Lyndon Gardiner – Founder of interCaribbean and […]
Eight entrepreneurs from the Eastern Caribbean completed a five-week accelerator Hero Program at Draper University Campus in San Mateo, California, from October 23 to November 25, 2023. The OECS Global Startup Hub comprises two components. The first is a two-week Virtual Accelerator Program in which 47 OECS entrepreneurs were given the opportunity to learn and […]
The Eastern Caribbean Green Entrepreneurship Initiative is delighted to reveal the awardees of its esteemed US $10,000 seed grants as part of its Greenpreneurs Incubator program. This initiative, which is dedicated to fostering and championing environmentally and socially responsible business endeavors within the Eastern Caribbean region, awarded ten deserving recipients, selected from the program’s third […]
The Prime Minister’s office has put out a brief statement headlines “Saint Lucia’s economy is in safe hands with Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre at the helm”. The statement quotes the CariCRIS Rating for the Government of Saint Lucia’s Income and Economic Structure, giving it a BBB+ (Adequate) rating. The statement goes on to […]