SANDALS RESORTS AND BEACHES RESORTS CELEBRATE A NIGHT OF WINS

Sandals Resorts International (SRI), parent company of Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts, has received 16 honors at this year’s World Travel Awards Caribbean and The Americas. The Gala Ceremony held at Sandals Grande St. Lucian honored the...

Matchmaking and marriage services: Do Indians in the diaspora need them?

ACCORDING TO Rao Prakasa (1982), the traditional arranged Indian marriage matchmaker is called anag-waa, or nayan. The matchmaker is normally a family friend or distant relative, or maulvi, imam or pandit who serves as a neutral go-between when...

Cunard’s Dazzling Queen Elizabeth Arrives to Miami for the First Time

This week, the recently refreshed Queen Elizabeth arrived at PortMiami for the first time to begin a season of highly anticipated Caribbean voyages. For 185 years, Cunard’s Queens have embodied the pinnacle of British luxury travel, and now Queen...

NEW LA CLERY TOWN CENTRE SPARKS DEBATE OVER RESIDENT CONSULTATION

Plans for a major new Town Centre in La Clery have sparked debate in Castries North, after Infrastructure Minister Stephenson King announced an African investor would transform the area into an economic hub linking Castries and Gros-Islet. While...

Criminal Networks and Insiders Drive Maritime Cocaine Trafficking in Latin America

According to the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) 2025 report, criminal networks are increasingly infiltrating maritime logistics chains. The report details how corrupt port and logistics workers facilitate the massive movement of cocaine...

Reimagining Commercial Underwriting in the Age of AI

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TBR (To Be Read): Will South-east Asia ever win its first Nobel Prize in literature?

SINGAPORE – South-east Asia, with a population of over 700 million, has exactly zero Nobel laureates in literature out of the 122 awarded. Have no worthy writers come out of the region or are the prize’s opaque processes unfair, unadventurous,...

EXPRESS CATERING’S US$5-M GAMBLE

The Guitar Bar at the Sangster International Airport, part of Express Catering Limited’s offerings at the airport. IF you’ve gone through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport (SIA) recently, you’ve likely passed a Margaritaville bar or a...

JetBlue To Exit This Caribbean Airport Less Than A Year After Launch

New York-based JetBlue will axe its service to Bonaire, a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles. The airline, which offers the route currently year-round, will suspend its flights from New York JFK to Flamingo Airport, Bonaire (BON), on January...

Caribbean cultural practitioners and Cricket West Indies face identical dilemmas

Dear Editor, In a media event on October 1 at Cricket West Indies’ headquarters in Antigua, the top executives explained the financial challenge facing the company. In order to retain full membership of the International Cricket Council the West...

JetBlue Drops Bonaire Flights

New York-based JetBlue will axe its service to Bonaire, a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles. The airline, which offers the route currently year-round, will suspend its flights from New York JFK to Flamingo Airport, Bonaire (BON), on January...

Japan summer, marquee events in Silversea's 27/28

Silversea's voyage collection, spanning second half 2027 and first half 2028, includes 271 classic voyages and 143 expeditions to more than 600 destinations, with 30 maiden calls. Among the highlights are Silversea’s debut summer season in Japan,...

Calypso is more than a Trini thing; It’s the Caribbean’s identity

Ryan Ba­choo Lead Ed­i­tor–News­gath­er­ing ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt On a Sun­day in Bar­ba­dos when The Mighty Gab­by was grow­ing up, his fam­i­ly would lis­ten to Trinidad’s ca­lyp­so mu­sic on a pro­gramme host­ed by late ra­dio per­son­al­i­ty...

ECSE announces Regional Schools Investment Competition

The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange (ECSE), in collaboration with its partners, has announced the launch of the Regional Schools Investment Competition. This program is designed to provide high school and first-year college students with a...

Israel Vows to Strike ‘Everywhere’ Against Iranian Regime

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at deadly strikes between Israel and Iran, day one of meetings at the G-7 summit, and a U.S. immigration crackdown. Sign up to receive World Brief in your inbox every weekday. Attacks on Tehran...

Student appeals to SVG govt to extend voting rights to overseas students

I am a 23-year-old student currently attending a university in the United States, and I would like to express my desire to participate in the upcoming general election, which would mark my first opportunity to vote. As the government and...

Anguilla, The Bahamas, Dominica, and Montserrat solidify their longstanding commitment to the CRFM

Anguilla, The Bahamas, Dominica, and Montserrat solidify their longstanding commitment From left to right: Mr. Montez Williams (The Bahamas), Hon. Roland Royer (Dominica), Hon. John P. Osborne (Montserrat), and Hon. Kyle Hodge (Anguilla) sign the...

US $15 Billion Crackdown on Cambodian Scams

By: Toh Han Shih Vincent Chen Zhi More assets are expected to be seized in the wake of the largest forfeiture action in the history of the US Department of Justice, involving a “pig butchering” online scam allegedly operated by a Cambodian...

US and the Caribbean: Strategic Alliance Against Regional Threats

Cooperation between the United States and the Caribbean has become an essential pillar of regional security, founded on a deep and enduring strategic alliance. Over the past four decades, a consistent framework of economic and security programs...

Tractor operator certification training to restart at GSA

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, recently visited the Guyana School of Agriculture’s (GSA) main campus at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara to discuss some of the policies that will be implemented over the next five years in order to...