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GIDC career opportunity: Senior Human Resource & Administrative Specialist
Now Grenada
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June 23, 2025
Grenada Investment Development Corporation (GIDC) invites qualified, proactive and people-oriented professionals to join its dynamic team by applying for the position of Senior Human Resource & Administrative Specialist. Job summary: The...
Pan-African payments card launched; a Caribbean version is not far behind
The Nassau Guardian
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ABUJA, Nigeria – The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) unveiled its new debit card, which is set to revolutionize the way trade payments happen across Africa, with the head of the payment scheme, Mike Ogbalu, telling Prime Minister...
WI LOOKING TO REBOUND
Trinidad Express
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July 3, 2025
The second Test between West Indies and Australia gets under way in Grenada this morning following a frenetic first match in Barbados, where 40 wickets tumbled in just three days on a difficult pitch. With only four half-centuries scored in the...
PM admits some corruption in Hurricane Beryl Response contracts
Now Grenada
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July 2, 2025
by Linda Straker Construction challenges had to do with financial management of fixed-term contracts Contracts issued by Ministry of Mobilisation, Implementation and Transformation and or Ministry of Housing Several contractors awarded contracts...
WI vs AUS 2nd Test: St George's Pitch Report, Records & Key Stats
Sporting News
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July 2, 2025
As the Frank Worrell Trophy continues, all eyes turn to the National Cricket Stadium in St George's Grenada, where West Indies will look to bounce back against Australia in the second Test of the three-match series starting Thursday. The hosts...
Another partner soon for Afreximbank
The Nation Barbados
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June 28, 2025
Another Caribbean country is expected to join the 12 already partner members with the Afreximbank next month, its outgoing president Professor Benedict Oramah revealed yesterday. In his farewell speech, Oramah said the array of Caribbean political...
Government to table Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Amendment Bill
Now Grenada
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June 30, 2025
Plans are in place to table the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Amendment Bill in the Lower House of Parliament, in keeping with the government’s set deadline of July 2025. The bill seeks to decriminalise the use and possession of cannabis for...
CARICOM Takes Bold Step to Support Regional Industry: Alteration of the CET on Paints and Varnishes to 35%
SKN Pulse
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July 2, 2025
Bridgetown, Barbados, June 25th, 2025— The CARICOM Private Sector Organization (CPSO) welcomes and strongly supports the decision taken at the Sixtieth Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) for the alteration of...
Whither the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
Now Grenada
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June 30, 2025
by Kari Grenade, PhD, Caribbean Economist and Macroeconomic Advisor The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its related 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets were adopted with great optimism in 2015. The 17 SDGs are: SDG...
Trump once again tightens the US blockade on Cuba
Liberation News
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July 2, 2025
This article is reprinted from Peoples Dispatch. US President Trump’s June 30 executive order reinstated all the sanctions against Cuba that Biden had lifted, and implemented new measures against Cuban companies with alleged ties to the socialist...
DeVry University expands ‘Bridge to Brilliance’ initiative to SVG
Searchlight
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July 11, 2025
Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), can now benefit from a new initiative launched earlier this year by U.S.-based DeVry University. Through the expansion of its Bridge to Brilliance Initiative, DeVry University said it will offer...
10 Nigerian health workers head to Caribbean as FG seals Saint Lucia deal
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 2, 2025
Nurses to Jamaica, doctors to Grenada July 9 Four Nigerian nurses are set to depart for Jamaica this week as part of a renewed push by the Federal Government to export skilled manpower across Africa and the Caribbean under the revitalised...
The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 16, Episode 16: Chicken And Waffles
Essence
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June 22, 2025
This week on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the ladies are back in Atlanta and back to reality. We open with Shamea juggling motherhood and recovery. After returning from Grenada, she’s down with strep throat and headed to the clinic with her...
Homegrown talent at the heart of C&W Communications
Now Grenada
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July 1, 2025
After more than a century connecting the people of the Caribbean, C&W Communications (C&W) is proud to have almost half of its senior leadership team comprised of wholly homegrown talent. The pioneering connectivity provider, which operates Flow,...
ANSA Coatings welcomes 35% CET on paints and varnishes
Now Grenada
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July 9, 2025
by Curlan Campbell Berger and Sissons consistently rank higher in quality benchmarked against foreign brands CPSO revealed significant underpricing from extra-regional suppliers Caricom recently increased Common External Tariff on paints and...
Africa, Caribbean urged to unite
The Nation Barbados
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June 30, 2025
Africa is poised to become the next frontier of global economic growth with its demographic advantage, natural resources and untapped renewable energy, CARICOM Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett told a gathering of various African leaders on...
CAF and Trust for the Americas sign agreement to support youth innovation
The Gleaner
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June 30, 2025
CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, and The Trust for the Americas signed a new cooperation agreement today to support a youth digital training initiative in Grenada. The announcement was made during the 55th General...
Resisting Dependency: U.S. Hegemony, China’s Rise, and the Geopolitical Stakes in the Caribbean
Black Agenda Report
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The Caribbean has become an emerging battleground in the U.S.-China rivalry, as regional states strategically navigate between the demands of superpowers and their own development needs. This great power competition exposes both vulnerabilities...
Senator approves changing Emancipation Day commemoration to 1 August
Now Grenada
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July 1, 2025
by Linda Straker Before 2007, Emancipation celebrations were observed on first Monday and Tuesday Tuesday observation removed to accommodate working day lost for cricket tournament in 2007 Senator St Clair called for Festival Act review Senator...
CARICOM secretary general urges continued Africa-Caribbean cooperation
The Nassau Guardian
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CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Secretary General Dr. Carla Barnett said Africa and the Caribbean have to continue strengthening cooperation in trade and align areas of mutual interest, in order for both regions to continue advancing amid the...