Regional News

CDB, IDB Sign Agreement To Support Economic Development In Caricom

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) โ€” The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on July 13th signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to support economic development and integration of the Caribbean Community (Caricom). โ€œToday’s signing […]

Health

WHO Says Countries Taking ‘Wrong Direction’ On Virus

GENEVA,ย Switzerlandย (AFP) โ€” The World Health Organization warned Monday that too many countries were bungling their response to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning there could be no return to normality any time soon. After a daily record […]

Health

Global Vaccine Plan May Allow Rich Countries To Buy More

LONDON (AP) โ€” Politicians and public health leaders have publicly committed to equitably sharing any coronavirus vaccine that works, but the top global initiative to make that happen may allow rich countries to reinforce their […]

Local News

Training Capacity Development Programme For Youth Workers

Youth workers in Grenada, are among regional colleagues, who participated in a Management and Leadership Training Capacity Development Programme for Youth Workers. The training, facilitated by the National Youth Agency and the Commonwealth Secretariat, runs […]

Local News

Textbooks and E-books To Be Used Side By Side In 2020

The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development, Religious Affairs and Information informs all stakeholders that there is no change to the schoolbooks programme for the 2020-2021 school year. The ministry further informs the public that […]

Government News

More Than 7,000 Grenadians Benefit From COVID-19 Stimulus Package & Unemployment Benefits

More than 7,000 Grenadians have benefitted thus far from Governmentโ€™s economic stimulus package which offers payroll support to businesses, income support to self-employed persons and an unemployment benefit among other measures. Statistics from the COVID-19 […]

Regional News

Cโ€™bean Govโ€™ts Urged To Work With Private Sector To Rebuild Tourism Industry

Two senior tourism officials say that regional governments will need to collaborate closely with the private sector as the Caribbean moves beyond the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has severely affected the regional tourism product. โ€œWe […]