Ten reasons to visit islands of the Bahamas, Caribbean this fall, winter

OCTOBER 22-26 The Bahamas Culinary & Arts Festival, headlined by rocker Lenny Kravitz and showcasing interactive chef demos, intimate and unique master classes, live performances and the third annual FUZE Art Expo. Baha Mar, 1 Baha Mar Blvd.,...

Senator Bernie Sanders’ AI Warning: Shaping a Human Future For The Caribbean

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, MON. Oct. 13, 2025: What does it mean to be human when machines can think, work, and create faster than we ever could? Senator Bernie Sanders has raised the alarm, warning that up to 100 million jobs in the United...

HIA, George Charles Airport Get Automated Passport Control Kiosk Machines

. The modernization of the island’s airports has been given a major boost following the donation of several Automated Passport Control Kiosk Machines to the government and people of St Lucia from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)...

Revealed: The World’s 50 Best Spas

Last year we published a guide to the 50 Best Spas in the UK and the response from you was so positive that this year we’ve spread our wings to launch the World’s 50 Best Spas, in collaboration with the UK’s leading specialist tour operator,...

This tiny Caribbean island is the next big thing in wellness

Mustique is the super-exclusive Caribbean hideaway that’s famous for being the place that one per-centers let their hair down. Princess Margaret scandalised high society in the Seventies by frolicking here with her toy boy Roddy Llewellyn. A...

Caribbean Fisheries Mechanism pens agreement with OECS, UWI

H.E. Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General of the OECS (left), with Dr. Marc Williams, Executive Director of the CRFM Secretariat, at the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding during CWA 2025 (Photo: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...

Before You Book That Holiday Flight, See What Google Flights Data Says

Learn how to let Google Flights do the hard work of finding the best deals for you. Yuttapon Busu/Getty Images The holiday season is creeping up on us, which means it's almost time for that annual tradition of panicking over ridiculously expensive...

Airports at risk: Caribbean runways face rising seas

Ryan Ba­choo Lead Ed­i­tor-News­gath­er­ing ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt On ap­proach to the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go, the run­way is al­most sur­round­ed by the sea—a sight that can un­set­tle even the sea­soned trav­eller....

Jamaica launches first-ever marine fish farming pilot

Jamaica has launched its first-ever marine fish farming pilot, marking a major step in developing the country's blue economy. The initiative, implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the...

CRFM inks new accords with OECS, The UWI

The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) sealed its first bilateral accord with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The signing was executed during the Sixteenth Special Meeting of the CRFM...

Former central bank governor urges easing of foreign exchange restrictions for cultural workers

62 By Emmanuel Joseph Former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr Delisle Worrell, has called on the government to make foreign currency freely available to cultural practitioners, arguing that such a policy would be the single most...

Redeveloped Hewanorra International Airport potentially finished by 2029

By Enrique Rupert If all goes to plan, the redevelopment of the Hewanorra International Airport in Saint Lucia could possibly be completed by 2029, according to the General Manager of the Saint Lucia Air and Sea Port Authority (SLASPA) Daren...

New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war

It’s a significant chapter of wartime history that has until now been largely confined to memory, private archive and songs by 1940s Trinidadian calypsonian Lord Invader. Now, the hidden story of how Caribbean workers helped win the second world...

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit

Last week, around 180 scientists, researchers and legal experts gathered in Laxenburg, Austria to attend the first-ever international conference focused on the controversial topic of climate “overshoot”. This hypothesised scenario would see global...

OECS Hosts Joint Biodiversity and Ocean Governance Meeting in Guadeloupe

The ocean, often described as the planet’s life-support system, is home to an extraordinary wealth of biodiversity. The French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) estimates that between 60 and 80 percent of the world’s...

Guest post: How Caribbean states are shifting climate legislation

The Caribbean region is among the most vulnerable to climate change, despite historically contributing less than half of one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Rising sea levels, extreme heat and more frequent and intense storms – such as...

CRFM inks new accords with Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and the University of the West Indies

Belize City, Belize, 9 October 2025 (CRFM)— The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) sealed its first bilateral accord with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The signing was executed...

As rent prices rise, locals question if housing is within reach

The cost of rent in Saint Lucia has crept higher, a truth anyone searching for a place to live can confirm without needing to consult statistics. This shows in the way friends talk about housing, in the prices listed on Facebook rental pages, in...

Turkey lifts ban on Iraq's Sulaymaniyah airport amid PKK peace process

Turkey has agreed to lift the flight ban it placed on Iraq's Sulaymaniyah International Airport more than two years ago over alleged Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) activity in the area, flag carrier Turkish Airlines and Iraq's Kurdistan region...

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...