KINGSTON, Jamaica August 17, 2021 - As Tropical Depression Grace moves towards Jamaica and Cuba after dumping heavy rains on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, A third tropical system, Tropical Storm Henri, developed late Monday afternoon near Bermuda, joining Fred and Grace.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Aug 15, 2021 - As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 1,297 on Sunday, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed its deep saddeness at reports of loss of life and significant damage in Haiti following a major earthquake on Saturday, 14 August.
MONTEGO BAY, July 3, 2021 - As Elsa moves across the Caribbean killing one person in St. Lucia and battering St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados as a category 1 hurricane, it has left much destruction in its path.
MONTEGO BAY, June 2, 2021 - Hurricane Elsa formed over the waters of the Atlantic Ocean early Friday just west of the Caribbean island of Barbados, one day after the system became the fifth-named storm of 2021.
NEW YOUR, NEW YORK, June 4, 2021 - The United Nations Resident Coordinator for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Didier Trebucq made a call to join efforts for the recovery of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines since a UN funding appeal has just only reached 31 percent of its goal.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 18, 2022 - The Peoples National Party is encouraging Jamaicans to get in the habit of recycling and recommit to the three (3) Rs: reducing, reusing, and recycling, which are necessary actions to reduce carbon emissions and limit the effects of climate change.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 3, 2022 - The People’s National Party says it is outraged by revelations from Minister with Responsibility for Mining Audley Shaw, that he intends to grant a permit to Bengal Development Limited to carry out mining activities in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains, despite the national outcry from citizens and environmentalists.
CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana March 2, 2022 – The government of Belize is pioneering a coral transplantation and beach reclamation effort in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, located in the southern part of the island.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, February 18, 2022 - Five Eastern Caribbean countries are to benefit from a US$12 million three-year grant-aid project being funded by the Government of Japan and executed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under The Project for Improving National Sargassum Management Capacities in the Caribbean.
>KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 9, 2022: Following a Sunday Gleaner story that despite having missed two bond-payment deadlines, Bengal Developments, the company that wants to mine in the sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains is still on track to recieve a mining licence from the government, the People's National Party is appealing to Minster Robert Montaque, who has responsibility for Mining, not to grant a permit for the parcel of land on which Bengal wants to mine..
