By Linda Nwoke Fossil fuel price volatility has rattled global energy markets. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states are particularly vulnerable, importing more than 85 percent of their energy. This causes consumers in CARICOM countries to pay almost double the average price for electricity than those in the United States. CARICOM houses a mixture of hydrocarbon […]
Dajaban Haiti – July 15, 2011: Haitian woman carries a bucket of goods on her head while men carry a poultry crate and sack of grains at Haitian Dominican Republic border market. (Shutterstock) By Claire Antone Payton, The Conversation Haiti appears to be on the precipice of foreign intervention yet again. Gangs have been blockading […]
Photo Courtesy: CARAH Gala Bihari Lall, the Franchise owner of Denny’s Brooklyn and Jackson Heights, will receive the Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award at the prestigious 29th Annual Caribbean-American Heritage (CARAH) Awards Gala held on Friday, November 18, 2022, at the JW Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC. Mr. Lall is also the owner of two businesses in the […]
Ocho Rios, Jamaica – February 20, 2018: Souvenir street market. (Shutterstock) By Jim Wyss, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Tourists are flocking back to Jamaica’s white sand beaches so quickly that the hospitality sector is struggling to replace the workers it laid off en masse during the pandemic. Visitor arrivals are on track to recover to pre-Covid […]
Downtown Kingston, Jamaica on a Sunday. (Shutterstock) By WiredJA News Team KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 15, 2022: Faced with a serious increase in the murder rate across Jamaica, the government has announced the imposition of states of emergency in Seven parishes – St. James, Hanover, Westmoreland, Clarendon, St. Catherine – and parts of the Corporate Area, […]
BROOKLYN, NY (November 16, 2022) – Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso today launched a multimedia, multicultural maternal health public education campaign to connect Brooklynites with information and resources for healthier pregnancies. The campaign includes English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole ads at select Brooklyn bus stops, urban panels at subway stations, and digital ads on Facebook, Instagram, and […]
Mayor Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul on stage during election campaign rally for Governor Kathy Hochul at BKLYN Studios in New York on November 5, 2022. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today penned the following opinion piece on working class voters and the 2022 general election: As Democrats celebrate averting election […]
MIAMI, USA – DECEMBER 10, 2016: An Airbus A 330-300 plane from Virgin Atlantic landing at the Miami International Airport. (Shutterstock) The London Heathrow (LHR) to Hewanorra International Airport (UVF) service has returned. Virgin Atlantic’s winter service will call into Saint Lucia 3 times weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) until 25th March 2023.
By Ana Leite, Damien Ridge and Nisreen Alwan, The Conversation Imagine you’re young, healthy and active. Then, one day, the rug is pulled out from under you. You initially have symptoms akin to a cold, so you take a lateral flow test, which shows you have COVID. But it’s nothing that stops you from getting […]
Washington D.C. 11 November 2022 (PAHO/WHO) – Growing rates of obesity, poor diets, and lack of physical activity, among other factors, have contributed to a more than three-fold increase in the number of adults living with diabetes in the Americas in the past 30 years according to a new report by the Pan American Health […]