Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says tourism remains the most vital source of earnings and economic activity for the majority of Caribbean islands, with region-wide revenues estimated at more than US$27 billion. “Tourism is the single largest generator of foreign exchange in 16 of the...
Carnage continued to rage over the weekend in Venezuela as the death toll rose to at least 60 people in continuing anti-government protests waged almost daily since the end of March. A 33-year-old man who was injured last Thursday night during a protest in the western...
[caption id="attachment_18147" align="alignright" width="300"] INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE KENNETH BRYAN, SEEN HERE ON THE SHOULDERS OF SUPPORTERS, PULLED OFF THE BIGGEST UPSET, DEFEATING FORMER MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MARCO ARCHER.[/caption] Who will form the next government of the Cayman Islands? That’s the question on the table as...
The Caribbean Community (Caricom) yesterday condemned the bomb attack in Manchester in Britain that left at least 22 people dead and nearly 60 others injured.In a brief statement yesterday, Caricom Secretary General Irwin La Rocque said that the 15-member regional grouping “strongly condemns the vicious...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it will extend until January a humanitarian program that has allowed roughly 58,000 Haitians to live in the United States, but it is hinting that further extensions are unlikely. Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security said they...