Photo: The late Phyllis Coard and her husband, ex-deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard By Earl Bousquet via Big Drum Nation Another October, another sterling contributor to the Grenada Revolution to mourn and remember… Like Maurice Bishop and all others who made the Revolution happen in 1979, the Coards’ contribution to the realization of everything behind the eternal theme ‘Forward Ever, […]
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley opens the inaugural Pivot Event by urging the people of the Caribbean to harness their cultural confidence and creative imagination to allow the region to secure its place as a world leader in technology and innovation.
By OECS Op-ed by Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Monday, October 19, 2020 — The digital economy, connectivity and the possibilities offered by remote work have emerged as a shelter from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic for many social and economic sectors of Latin America and […]
By WiredJA KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 16, 2020: Opposition spokesperson on Technology, Julian Robinson, has renewed his call for the Government to engage in mediation with tablet device provider GeoTech, who brought in 19,000 tablets which the Government had labelled defective and not meeting their specifications. Mr Robinson’s call comes against the background that the […]
By Sir Ronald Sanders In November 1998, shortly after Antigua and Barbuda and Cuba established diplomatic relations, Fidel Castro and Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Lester Bird, had a memorable conversation in Havana. The conversation is worth recalling in the context of the third announcement by a Government of Barbados that by November 2021, it intends […]
Photo Credit: Economist By Guyanese Online Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been conferred with the honour of Knight Bachelor in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. During his six-decades long career, Bowling’s […]
By CARICOM CARIFESTA, the Region’s premiere cultural festival, which was scheduled to be held in Antigua and Barbuda in August next year, has been postponed to August 2022. The Hon. Daryll Matthew, Minister of Sports, Culture, National Festivals, and the Arts of Antigua and Barbuda, announced the decision on 8 October, at a virtual meeting […]
By Calvin G. Brown, WiredJA KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, October 8, 2020 – The people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will go to the polls on November 5 to elect a new government. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves who will be seeking his fifth consecutive term made the announcement during an online meeting of the […]
By St Lucia First The National Competiveness and Productivity Council (NCPC) in collaboration with Compete Caribbean and IfM ECS (Cambridge University) has reported the successful completion of phase one of a two phased online capacity building programme. This training programme is geared towards to the formulation of a Science Technology and Innovation (STI) policy for […]
By OECS Wednesday, October 7, 2020 — St. Georges Methodist School in Grenada was first introduced to the Early Learners Programme in January 2017 and has seen a marked improvement in their early grade students’ reading levels as a result. Despite trepidation to start, the Principal and teachers embraced the various ELP initiatives and incorporated those […]