The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has unveiled a newly redesigned series of EC banknotes that will celebrate the people, history and achievements of the eight member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), marking a historic shift away from featuring the late Queen Elizabeth II. The new banknote designs were officially unveiled on […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer for an alien from Ukraine without legal status who was convicted for causing a fatal truck crash that killed two people in Alabama. According to local reporting, the crash occurred on May 6, 2025, in Thomasville, Alabama. Andrii […]

TRAVEL: by Eric Mackenzie Lamb I recently made a visit to Colmar, a small city in southwestern France. Colmar’s old town has cobblestoned streets lined with half timbered  medieval and renaissance buildings . The Gothic 13th century Eglise St Martin church stands on the central place of La Cathedral.  The city is on the Alsace […]

NASSAU, Bahamas, Jul 20, CMC – A Jamaican woman is to  be handed over to the Department of Immigration after completing her court ordered fine and or sentencing after she was found guilty of injuring her ex-boyfriend by hitting him in the head with a hammer during a fight in which she claimed he stabbed […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul  20, CMC -The Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) Monday said it is concerned about public commentary which has included personal attacks on members of the Court of Appeal following the ruling last weekend involving the prominent businessman, Dominic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve, who remain in prison. “While […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts – July 20, 2026 — Efforts to enhance sanitation and infection control standards at the Joseph N. France (JNF) General Hospital have been strengthened through a donation of hygiene equipment from CleanRite, a private cleaning company based in St. Kitts. The contribution was presented on Thursday, July 16, 2026, to the Institution […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul  20, CMC – Guyanese government as well  as search and rescue officials remain confident that more persons would be found alive even as the bodies of 27 people have so far been recovered after the MV Barima with more than 179 people on board capsized last Saturday night. The ferry was on […]

By Dr. Kevin Greenidge BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  Jul  20, CMC – On June 12, 2026 the Central Bank switched off the payment system this country had run on for a generation, and switched on another. That was a deliberate choice, and it is worth explaining why we made it. What We Turned Off What BiMPay replaced […]

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, Jul 20, CMC – Team SVG sent a thunderous message to the region’s squash elite at the 2026 Caribbean Junior Squash Championships (Junior CASA), storming to a historic first-ever team title and cementing their status as the undisputed kings of the court. The Vincy contingent’s fairy-tale campaign in Tortola ignited with a […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Jul 20, CMC – Barbados Under-19s continued their dominant march through the CWI Rising Stars Men’s 50-over Championship on Monday, securing their fifth consecutive victory with a commanding seven-wicket thrashing of Jamaica. At Bethesda Sports Ground: The Young Bajans have now stamped their authority on the tournament in emphatic fashion, booking their place in […]