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Australia to help Caribbean deal with climate change issues

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Australia will use its expertise in guiding the Caribbean adapt to climate change and manage its coral reefs.
Coral reefs provide benefits to the Caribbean valued at over four billion annually. The reefs of the Caribbean are of great importance in providing shoreline protection, habitat for healthy fisheries and an essential attraction for the tourism sector, according to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC).

Bahamas Most Popular Island Destination while Turks & Caicos is Island Most would Like to Visit

The Bahamas continues to attract the most American luxury travelers, according to a new study released by Resonance Consultancy in collaboration with the Luxury Institute. The report also shows that the island destination more affluent Americans want to visit than any other is the Turks and Caicos.
The Resonance Report on Affluent Travel and Leisure surveyed more than 1,200 affluent U.S. households with incomes of $150k+ to understand their plans for travel, recreation and the purchase of vacation homes in the next 12-24 months.

Tourism boom - 1.6 million air seats sold for summer

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica has secured 1.6 million air seats into the island this summer, with the bulk coming from the United States — the island's major market — even as the country continues to woo visitors from the non-traditional areas of Eastern Europe and Latin America.
This is welcome news for the many tourism interests now gathered in Montego Bay for the 21st staging of the island's premiere trade show, Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX), at the Montego Bay Convention Centre.

PM says no referendum on Belize-Guatemala border dispute

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister Dean Barrow says there will be no referendum in Belize and Guatemala on October 6 as the two countries seek to end a long standing border dispute between them.
Barrow told reporters that confirmation that the referendum would not be held on October 6 as planned came during a meeting in Haiti between Foreign Affairs Minister Sedi Elrington and his Guatemalan counterpart, Fernando Carrera. Both men were attending the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) summit in Port au Prince over the last weekend.

Regional transport ministers to meet in St. Vincent

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Caribbean aviation and transport ministers meet here on Tuesday to discuss a wide range of outstanding matters including the possibility of establishing a single regional airline, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonslaves has said.
Gonsalves, speaking at a news conference, said that while his administration has no objection to the formation of a single airline to serve the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region, such initiatives in the past have not borne fruit.

Brits urged to ease burden of APD

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Caribbean nations are making another go at getting Britain to reform its burdensome Air Passenger Duty (APD).
“It is the moral and fundamental thing to do,” Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy told a meeting in London to reconstitute the APD Committee comprising among others, diplomats of Caribbean nations.
The meeting was held at the offices of the Barbados High Commission. Present were High Commissioners from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Grenada, Dominica and Cuba and representatives from Belize, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic.

EDITORIAL: New CARICOM language

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - While apparently unwilling, if not unable, to make a reality of the long promised plan for fundamental restructuring of the governance architecture in the Caribbean Community, there seems to be a language shift in emphasis from “executive authority” to talk of a “change process”.
Consequently, as the Community secretariat advances arrangements for the forthcoming 34th annual CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Port of Spain in July, there are sketches of a proposed ‘Community Strategic Plan (2014-2019) with references to the intended “change process”.

Call for better tsunami warning systems

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In the Caribbean and western mid-Atlantic, tens of thousands of lives are at risk and millions of dollars are at stake if a tsunami strikes and therefore all communities must implement more efficient warning systems. So says Christa von Hillebrandt Andrade, manager of the US national weather service Caribbean tsunami warning programme, who spoke yesterday at the eighth session of the Inter-Governmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) at Capital Plaza, Port-of-Spain.

‘Be ready for natural disasters’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Citizens must make themselves ready to deal with disasters and not depend on the Government, head of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM), Dr Stephen Ramroop, said yesterday.
Ramroop was speaking at the eighth session of the Inter-Governmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean, at Capital Plaza in Port of Spain.

Strong earthquake felt in Leeward islands

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck near St. Kitts and Nevis on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of death of damage on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
The U.S Geological Survey said that the quake, which occurred at 2.53 am (local time) and its epicentre was located at 17.48 degrees north and 62.14 degrees west. It had a depth of 30.4 miles and was felt in St. Kitts-Nevis, and the French island of Guadeloupe.
The Seismic Unit of the University of the West Indies said that the quake occurred west of Barbuda.

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