KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar 9, CMC – Jamaica’s double CARIFTA gold medalist Shanoya Douglas set the track ablaze in the 200 metres over the weekend on her way to clocking the fastest women’s Under-18 time in the world this year. Competing on Sunday’s third and final day of the Jamaica CARIFTA trials, Douglas crossed the finish […]

Charlestown, Nevis — March 9, 2026 — Sixth Form students representing Team Nevis are preparing to welcome their regional counterparts as the island hosts the 54th Annual Leeward Islands Debating Competition, scheduled for March 11–16, 2026. The regional event will bring together talented young debaters from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Maarten, and St. […]

While Prime Minister Drew received criticism from opposition politicians and opposition-supported online media about his pre-CARICOM Summit travel, it has since been proven that visiting each CARICOM leader in their home country before the confab to ensure that their views or approach were aligned for the forthcoming summit was not misplaced. It seems that the […]

Public debt in St. Kitts and Nevis is projected to rise above the Eastern Caribbean’s 60 percent benchmark this year, even as economic growth is expected to recover in 2026, according to the latest assessment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF estimates that total public debt, which stood at 58.4 percent of GDP […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 8, CMC – Former West Indies captain, Sir Clive Lloyd has expressed sympathy to members of the West Indies team, who have been stranded in India for the past week. The regional team was scheduled to leave the subcontinent after being eliminated from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on March 1, […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar 8, CMC – Jamaican American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, has joined the conversation surrounding the discontinuation of the Cuban Medical Brigade programme.. “Will America now send the doctors so badly needed in Jamaica” said Ralph in a post on social media in response to a Jamaica Gleaner news report. The question followed […]

ST JOHN’S, ANTIGUA, Mar. 8, CMC – Regional carrier, LIAT Air has launched a new “Early Bird” advanced purchase promotion, aimed at making regional destinations more accessible to price-conscious Caribbean travelers. Speaking recently  with Observer AM , Tito Thomas, the Sales and Marketing Supervisor, detailed the airline’s strategy to reward passengers who book their flights at […]

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 8, CMC – Minister of Tourism and International Transport Ian Gooding-Edghill says the partial closure of the country’s airspace on Saturday,  was caused by a shortage of staff within the Air Navigation Services department. In a statement, Gooding-Edghill said this had an impact on inbound and outbound flights for approximately seven and a […]

KOLKATA, India, Mar 8, CMC – Players and staff of the West Indies senior men’s team will have to wait just a few more days before they can return home from India. The regional team, which has been stranded on the subcontinent since March 1 due to the crisis in West Asia, have been informed […]

GEORGETOWN , Guyana, Mar. 7, CMC President Mohamed Irfaan Ali says the security climate in the Caribbean and Latin America has improved in recent weeks following major political developments in neighbouring Venezuela. Ali made the remarks during an interview with Fox News on Saturday while attending the Shield of the Americas Summit in Doral, Florida […]