In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados.
Caribbean news. Last October, Bahamas Waste unveiled their big pink truck to raise awareness of cancer and during this special unveiling, Hon. Melanie Griffin, Minister of Social Services and Community Development said, “You cannot fight breast cancer – or any other form of cancer – with ribbons alone, you fight it with a team.”
WASHINGTON, USA -- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $33 million loan for The Bahamas to improve the management of its public finances and procurement, and to enhance its capacity to monitor progress and implementation of key government priorities.
The Bahamas’ tourist-based economy has been growing steadily in recent years but its public finances have suffered since 2008, with growing fiscal deficits and debt levels, amid rising unemployment.
NASSAU, Bahamas -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organization of American States (OAS) have both expressed concerns, at the diplomatic level, about the new immigration policy in The Bahamas that has touched such a nerve in some sectors of the international community.
Prime Minister Perry Christie confirmed that international agencies had indeed expressed that concern directly to the government.
FREEPORT, Bahamas -- Just two weeks after a $16.8 million discovery in Grand Bahama, police in The Bahamas uncovered another cultivated marijuana field in the same area on Thursday, when officers of the Drug Enforcement Unit, along with US counterparts acting on information, went to another undeveloped area in East Grand Bahama.
Upon arrival at the location, they discovered a number of marijuana plants ranging between one and five feet in height.
Police confirmed that the plots contained approximately 75,000 plants, with a street value of $7.5 million.
The creation of a regional centre of excellence in financial services is being touted as the way forward if the region is to face the challenges and volatility of the global world of financial services.
This is the view of the Minister for Financial Services here, Ryan Pinder, who told delegates attending the 3rd Caribbean Conference on the International Financial Services Sector hosted jointly with The Caribbean Export Development Agency, that the Caribbean must commit to developing a platform of education and training regionally.
FLORIDA, CMC - The United States Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBPA) says it has arrested two Bahamian men suspected of smuggling seven migrants, including Haitians, into the country.
The agency said that the migrants came into the country on a vessel from the Bahamas and that border patrol agents had been alerted to the matter on Saturday.
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas and Haiti will hold talks in Port au Prince next week on the vexing issue of illegal migration, Prime Minister Perry Christie has said.
Christie, briefing reporters on his attendance at the 25th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Inter-Sessional summit that ended in St. Vincent and the Grenadines late Tuesday night, said that the matter had been raised during the two-day summit.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is making available more than US$18 million in loans to the Bahamas and Barbados for various development projects.
CDB at its 60th meeting of the Board of Directors on Thursday approved US$16.18 million for the 40 year-old College of The Bahamas (COB) for an institutional and physical makeover.
Among the initiatives for COB are a new Hall of Residence to house 100 students and a new Business Centre.
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas says it hopes to develop a strategic plan to deal with violence against women by June and reiterated its condemnation of violence in any form against women in the country. “Hundreds of women in The Bahamas face situations that cause serious distress, pain and frustrations to them and their children and households, generally,” Minister responsible for Women’s Affairs, Melanie Griffin, told Parliament.