Dominica PM calls on LIAT to show more compassion to passengers

September 21, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14166" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit[/caption] Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is urging the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, to improve its services to passengers saying “there must be a greater sense of humanism” in the way the airline conducts its operations. Skerrit, speaking on...

Caribbean countries pledge to empower women, girls

September 21, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_3163" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne[/caption] Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have pledged their “resolve” to achieve positive outcomes for empowering women and girls in the Caribbean as part of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s global-inspired movement and as a celebration of...

Antigua & Barbuda among the first to access climate fund

September 21, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14146" align="alignleft" width="300"] United Nations representatives after the signing of the 2015 Paris agreement[/caption] Antigua & Barbuda, one of the first nations to have applied to the newly created Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub and along with other regional countries, is expected to benefit from...

A Serious Mosquito-Borne Virus Seen In Haiti For First Time

September 20, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14122" align="alignleft" width="300"] DR. JOHN LEDNICKY, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT THE UF COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND LEAD AUTHOR OF THE STUDY WHICH FOUND THE MAYARO VIRUS IN HAITI.[/caption] University of Florida (UF) researchers have...