Members of the public are expressing concern over new travel requirements for Canada. Callers to Wednesday’s edition of Voice of the People sounded their displeasure and alarm over that country’s new Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) requirement, with some linking the change to the country’s Citizenship by...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 rattled Barbados on Monday night, the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center has reported. It said that the quake occurred at 7:08 pm (local time) was located 65 miles north east of Bridgetown...
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says growth projections for Latin America and the Caribbean have been further revised down to 0.5 per cent in 2015, marking the fifth consecutive year in which activity has decelerated. IMF Director of the Western Hemisphere...
Entrepreneur. Businessman. Author. Dynamo. Words evocative of riveting wunderkind Warren Cassell, Jr. He is currently one of the Caribbean’s most talked-about entrepreneurs, with investment holdings in the financial services, media and real estate. If you haven’t heard of him, consider yourself officially put on notice because...
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has written to his Barbadian counterpart Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, over what he says has emerged as a “Barbados-only” plan for policyholders of the collapsed British-American Insurance Company Limited (BAICO). “The judicial manager in Barbados put forward a plan and I don’t...