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DOMINICA: Single-Use Plastic Ban to Go Into Effect January 2019

Plastic straws, styrofoam and other single-use plastics will be banned from Dominica as of January 2019, the Caribbean nation announced Friday.

August 11, 2018
Published in Caribbean

DOMINICA: Single-Use Plastic Ban to Go Into Effect January 2019

Plastic straws, styrofoam and other single-use plastics will be banned from Dominica as of January 2019, the Caribbean nation announced Friday.

August 11, 2018
Published in Caribbean

Bahamas to introduce digital currency

The Central Bank of the Bahamas has announced plans to introduce a pilot digital currency for the country.

June 23, 2018
Published in local news

JAMAICA | JA said to be largest suplier of ganja to the United States

WASHINGTON DC, April 10, 2018 - Jamaica remains the largest Caribbean supplier of marijuana to the United States and the Caribbean islands. This is the word from the United States State Department In its 2018 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.

April 11, 2018
Published in Business & Economy

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. | Photo: Reuters

Bahamas,St.Kitts,Virgin Islands on EU Tax Haven Blacklist

The European Union, or EU, added the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Saint Kitts and Nevis to the bloc's tax haven list and placed Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda to the so-called grey list of jurisdictions that don't adhere to anti-tax avoidance standards but promised to make change their ways.

March 14, 2018
Published in Business & Economy

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque at the 29th Intersessional Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government.

CARICOM needs very concessional financing for climate resilience

GEORGETOWN, February 28, 2018 - The Caribbean Community’s goal of creating a climate resilient region requires significant grant funding and very concessional financing, CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said Monday.

February 27, 2018
Published in CARICOM

CARICOM | Bahamas PM to chair new tourism committee

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Jul 6, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have agreed to establish a committee that will look at ways at incorporating both the public and private sector in the overall development of the regional tourism industry, Bahamas Prime Minister, Dr. Hubert Minnis, has said.

July 7, 2017
Published in CARICOM

Former Ghana foreign minister, Hanna Tetteh, leads a commonwealth election observer team to the Bahamas

BAHAMAS | Commonwealth observers pledge to act impartially while observing general election

NASSAU, Bahamas, May 7, CMC – Observers from the Commonwealth who will be observing the upcoming general election have promised to “act impartially and independently”.

May 7, 2017
Published in Politics

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DOMINICA: Single-Use Plastic Ban to Go Into Effect January 2019

DOMINICA: Single-Use Plastic Ban to Go Into Effect January 2019

Bahamas to introduce digital currency

JAMAICA | JA said to be largest suplier of ganja to the United States

Bahamas,St.Kitts,Virgin Islands on EU Tax Haven Blacklist

CARICOM needs very concessional financing for climate resilience

CARICOM | Bahamas PM to chair new tourism committee

BAHAMAS | Commonwealth observers pledge to act impartially while observing general election