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Hiram "El Pavo" Remón, vocal master of the Latin American Songbook, dies at 93
WBGO - New Jersey
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June 20, 2025
Hiram Remón, renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge of the vocal traditions of Latin America, passed at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY Saturday June 14 of natural causes. His death was confirmed by his daughter Malena Remón, he was 93 years old....
UWI Five Islands Campus OECS budget watch: “Beyond the numbers: What the 2025 Budgets reveal about priorities and politics in...
The New Today Grenada
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June 28, 2025
Budgets aren’t just financial plans—they’re political statements. In 2025, Eastern Caribbean governments will reveal what they value and where they believe the future lies. From climate resilience to youth savings accounts, mega-infrastructure to...
Full list of the countries where rabies is 'high risk' after UK tourist dies
Manchester Evening News
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June 18, 2025
A woman has tragically died in the UK after becoming infected with rabies in Morocco. She is said to have contracted the fatal viral disease while coming into contact with a stray dog during a visit to Morocco, the UK Health and Security Agency...
The Most Surprising Mother and Son Bonding Trip
Oprah Daily
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June 18, 2025
Courtesy of Explora Journeys The cave swim clinched it. After two nights at sea, my 17-year-old son, Ben, and I stood in a downpour in the rainforest of Dominica, an impossibly lush volcanic island in the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles. Drenched and...
Trump gives 36 countries Wednesday deadline to avoid travel ban
FOX 10 Phoenix - Arizona
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FILE-President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Donald Trump has given 36 countries a Wednesday deadline to commit to improve its...
Azzet Unpacked: All the moves and shakes in finance news
Azzet
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June 27, 2025
Today's news landscape is increasingly defined by paywalls, which prevent readers who cannot - or do not wish to - subscribe from accessing information. The accessibility of fact-based journalism has been eroded by the closure of international...
World Paediatrics hosts double team – Neurosurgery and Craniofacial
Searchlight
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June 17, 2025
World Pediatrics’ Neurosurgery and Craniofacial medical teams held a dual clinic at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (“MCMH”) on Sunday, June 8, 2025, where they evaluated 74 children across both specialties from St Vincent and the Grenadines...
Eastern Caribbean launches regional project
Now Grenada
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June 16, 2025
A landmark initiative to boost pandemic preparedness and response in the Eastern Caribbean was officially launched this week in Castries, St Lucia, bringing renewed focus to building resilient, integrated health systems that can better detect and...
C’bean launches project to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response
The Gleaner
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June 17, 2025
CASTRIES (CMC): The Eastern Caribbean has launched a project to boost pandemic preparedness and response in the sub-region bringing renewed focus to building resilient, integrated health systems that can better detect and respond to future health...
Water declared ‘critical’ priority
The BVI Beacon
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June 27, 2025
To address the widespread water shortages that have infuriated residents in recent months, the government has allocated $8 million and made an official declaration that will allow it to bypass tender requirements and award infrastructure contracts...
PRESS RELEASE: Rodney family expands scholarship honouring late sister Marisa Tricia Rodney
Dominica News Online
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June 26, 2025
The Rodney family’s dream of turning personal tragedy into a beacon of hope for future generations has reached a heartening new milestone. In just its second year, the Marisa Tricia Rodney Memorial Scholarship has not only fulfilled its original...
A Make-or-Break Moment for Global Debt Reform
Project Syndicate - New York
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Debt across the Global South has grown twice as fast as in the North, with rising borrowing costs trapping developing countries in a vicious cycle of debt distress. The upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development is an...
The 6 Hottest Luxury Resorts in the Caribbean Right Now, From Turks and Caicos to Curacao
Caribbean Journal
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June 26, 2025
There are resorts, and then there are destinations within destinations. Places that aren’t just where you stay — they’re why you go. They inspire you. They transport you. They become the trip. In the Caribbean, where luxury is a way of life, these...
Guyana is only country in the world that produces enough food to feed itself without imports
The Voice
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June 25, 2025
GUYANA IS the only country in the world that produces enough food to feed itself without imports, according to a new study. According to the study published in Nature Food, Guyana is the only nation among 186 that achieves full self-sufficiency in...
OAS and France strengthening teaching of French
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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June 26, 2025
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) says Secretary General Albert Ramdin and the Ambassador of France to the Eastern Caribbean States, Barbados and OECS, Francis Etienne, on Wednesday signed an agreement to...
Eastern Caribbean launches regional project to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response
Pan American Health Organization
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June 13, 2025
With support from the Pandemic Fund and in collaboration with PAHO/WHO, FAO, and the World Bank, six countries unite to build more resilient health systems Washington, DC, 13 June 2025 (PAHO/WHO)- A landmark initiative to boost pandemic...
Delegates gather in Antigua and Barbuda for OAS 55th General Assembly
Dominica News Online
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June 25, 2025
Home >> News Shermain Bique-Charles - Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 8:58 AM (L-r)OAS Secretary General Albert Ramdin, Foreign Minister EP Chet Greene, and Assistant Secretary General Nestor Mendez welcomes delegates at the opening press conference...
PNP promises ‘land for landless’
Jamaica Observer
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June 26, 2025
Opposition spokesman on land Lothan Cousins making his contribution to the 2025/26 Sectoral Debate on Tuesday. (Photo: Karl Mclarty) OPPOSITION spokesman on land Lothan Cousins has declared that if the People’s National Party (PNP) is returned to...
Wisconsin’s 20 Most Influential Asian American Leaders for 2025, Part 1
Madison365 - Wisconsin
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June 23, 2025
This is the first of a five-part series. Just months after we published our first news stories in August 2015, we tried something new: we listed and published brief biographies of the state’s 28 Most Influential Black Leaders. People really liked...
Caribbean to get food authenticity center
Food Safety News
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June 12, 2025
Movement is underway to establish a center for food authenticity testing in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) is leading development of a concept note and feasibility study for the center, in...