WASHINGTON D.C. - Jamaica's Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett has challenged the tourism industry to begin to look more seriously at ‘diasporic tourism’ as a means of accelerating investments in the country’s tourism product.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has been ranked as the highest Caribbean country in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released on Tuesday.

OTTAWA, Canada –The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping Friday said it is “deeply concerned” by the deepening of the multi-dimensional crisis in Haiti, telling the international community that its efforts to assist Haiti should go beyond strengthening the police and the judiciary.

NEW YORK, NY - The vast majority of Black immigrants in the US now are from the Caribbean, at least as of 2019.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana said Monday it had received several bids from several companies seeking to conduct the feasibility study and preliminary design for the construction of the Corentyne River Bridge linking the country with Suriname.

LONDON, UK – CS Global Partners, a London-based government advisory and marketing firm, has ranked the island of Dominica as one of the safest places in the Caribbean and Latin America.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti is marking the 12^th anniversary of the powerful earthquake that struck the island on January 12, 2010, killing more than 250, 000 people and injuring an estimated 300,000 others, with the national flag being flown at half-mast.

NASSAU, Bahamas –Prime Minister Philip Davis Friday instructed that the Bahamian flag be flown at half-mast here and at the country’s embassies across the globe, as he led Bahamians in paying respect to the iconic actor, activist, director and ambassador, Sir Sidney Poitier, who died at the age of 94.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize government has condemned the murder of a 15-year-old boy and reiterated the need to get young children back in school to prevent them being recruited into criminal gangs.

NEW YORK, New York – A United States researcher is predicting that 2022 will likely be a “mercurial but ultimately very difficult year” for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the Biden administration’s engagement in the region.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Governments of the United States and Canada on Saturday extended congratulatory messages to the people of Haiti on their Independence Day amid what they described as “immense challenges” that the French-speaking Caribbean country faces. 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The chairman of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Prime Minister John Briceno, says the region is ushering 2022 “with hope and optimism’ noting that the past two years have seen all plans affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.