Our hearts go out to Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic as they grapple with the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. The full impact is still being tallied, but …
November 5, 2025
May 26, 2025
EDITORIAL: Trade missions are a good idea
We applaud the premier’s ongoing push to reduce the Virgin Islands’ dependence on trade with the United States. He should keep it up, working to ensure that his efforts translate …
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August 1, 2024
Premier pledges $400k in Beryl aid at OECS meeting
The Virgin Islands government will contribute $400,000 to help Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines recover from Hurricane Beryl, Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley pledged last week during a …
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July 19, 2024
BVI Red Cross raising funds for Beryl victims
Shortly after Hurricane Beryl ripped through the Caribbean this month, the BVI Red Cross joined a regional effort to assist people on the islands devastated by the storm. Now …
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July 4, 2024
Beryl batters the Caribbean, setting record
Hurricane Beryl swept across the Caribbean this week as an unusually early Category Five storm, laying waste to several islands, causing at least nine reported deaths, and lending credence to …
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April 19, 2024
Caribbean resorts and tourism operators pay a high price for sargassum
The 2023 sargassum season started early at the Bolongo Bay Beach Resort on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. Around the end of March, staff launched the response …
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April 19, 2024
Seaweed piles on problems for Jamaica fishers
During more than half a century of working as a fisherman in Jamaica, Richard Osbourne has seen the industry steadily decline in the face of pollution, climate change, overfishing and …
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April 19, 2024
Sargassum: That ‘brown gold’?
Biofuel. Bricks. Paper. Beauty products. A carbon capture system. Many Caribbean entrepreneurs see an unprecedented economic opportunity in the sargassum that has regularly swamped the region since 2011. But despite …
February 28, 2024
Recovery and Development Agency hosts gender and social training
Gender sensitivity and social inclusion took centre stage in two recent workshops hosted by the Recovery and Development Agency. Last week, the agency offered contractors a training session designed to …
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February 22, 2024
Man dies after entering tank on a barge
A man died after entering a tank on a barge near Pockwood Pond and losing consciousness, police said Saturday morning. Two other males who entered the tank to rescue him …
August 12, 2021
OneMart affiliate to launch app in Jamaica
If a company that began in the Virgin Islands is successful, the Caribbean may soon have pizza, paper towels or a ride to the store at its fingertips through a …
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April 21, 2021
COMMENTARY — Regional tourism recovery predicted
Recently published visitor arrival figures indicate that Caribbean tourism has started down the long road to recovery. Following a disastrous 2020 during which governments closed borders to try to halt …
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