OECS Seeks to Scale up and Accelerate Climate Action

April 21, 2023 Climate Change poses an existential threat to the Caribbean and is increasingly impacting the lives of people of the region, in every sphere. With the most recent…

CDB Approves US$29.8 Million to Build Up Health Care Systems in the Caribbean

April 11, 2023 Almost three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic first breached the shores of Caribbean countries, causing severe economic and social dislocation and putting immense strain on health systems…

Descendants of slave owners pay up to Grenada!

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan February 28, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Grenada saw its first reparations payment and apology on Monday from a BBC Journalist based in New York, Laura Trevelyan, who traced her…

 ‘Much to be proud of’ – CARICOM SG on Grenada’s 49th Independence anniversary

February 10, 2023 CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, has extended “heartfelt congratulations” to the government and people of Grenada on the occasion of the country’s 49th Independence anniversary. In her…

GRENADA MOVES AHEAD WITH PLANS TO OBSERVE 1983 KILLINGS

Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com October 20, 2022. 39 years after the killing of Grenada’s Former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, comes news that commencing from next year, October 19th will be a…

OECS STATES EYE EC ECONOMIC UNION AS ITS STRENGTH IN REBUILDING POST COVID

Kimberly Ramkhalawan Email: kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com October 21, 2022 Grenada is committing itself to the OECS Economic Union as it seeks to ensure a free movement of trade at all levels among…

GRENADA PM: SCALE UP CLIMATE FINANCE FOR ADAPTATION

By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com September 27, 2022 Grenadian Prime Minister, Dickon Mitchell, made a clarion call for world leaders to ramp up its action against the effects of climate change,…

Caribbean’s ability to cope with change Depends upon broad-based innovation

September 23, 2022 How can the Caribbean better deal with change and continue to develop?  That depends on the investment made in its people and their ability to innovate in…

TROPICAL WAVE UNDERESTIMATED, AFFECTS LESSER ANTILLES

By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com August 2, 2022 What was supposed to be a tropical wave passing through the islands, turned into a freak storm packing Category one hurricane force winds,…

Grenada Assumes the Chair of the OAS Inter-American Council for Integral Development

July 8, 2022 The Permanent Representative of Grenada to the Organization of American States (OAS), Yolande Smith, today assumed the interim Chair of the OAS Inter-American Council for Integral Development…

Tropical Storm watch for Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada

June 28, 2022 The National Hurricane Center in the United States is monitoring three systems in the Atlantic basin.  The Hurricane Center is issuing advisories for Potential Tropical Cyclone 2 after it formed Monday…

OECS Commission congratulates newly elected Prime Minister and Government of Grenada

June 28, 2022 The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission extends congratulations to newly elected Prime Minister of Grenada Dickon Mitchell and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on their…