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Air France Boeing 777 and American Airlines Boeing 737 experience near miss over Caribbean
Air France Boeing 777-300 and American Airlines Boeing 737-800 experienced a near miss over the Caribbean Sea. The planes were safely separated after the...
Caribbean Airlines suspends flights to Havana, Cuba
Caribbean Airlines advises that its commercial service to Havana, Cuba is suspended with immediate effect until further notice.
This follows correspondence from the Instituto de Aeronáutica...
Barbados reports additional 37 cases of COVID-19
There were 37 new positive COVID-19 cases on Sunday, out of the 1,436 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory.
They comprised both...
Dutch loan US$3M to struggling Winair
The Dutch government is providing a US $3 million mortgage loan with a market-based interest rate to Windward Islands Airways (Winair) to safeguard the...
England goes into new COVID-19 lockdown as cases surge
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lockdown to try to slow a surge in COVID-19 cases that...
BARBADOS: British star to appear in court on Wednesday
The Royal Barbados Police Force has confirmed international media reports that Zara Holland, 25, of Great Britain will appear in the District “A” Magistrates’...
Grenada records 1st COVID-19-related death
The Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health confirms that Grenada has regrettably recorded its first Covid-19- related death.
The deceased individual is a...
St Vincent puts Barbados on COVID ‘high risk’ travel list
Effective Monday, January 4, 2021, travellers from Barbados will be categorised as arriving from a high risk country, and must quarantine in an approved...
Cuban doctors nominated for Nobel Prize
A proposal to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to a contingent of Cuban doctors who specialise in disaster situations and serious epidemics was...
161 new cases of COVID-19 in Barbados
A total of 161 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Barbados on Saturday.
Health authorities told a news conference Saturday afternoon that the...
Over 5,400 Caribbean Immigrants Deported In 2020
By NAN Staff Writer
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Over 5,400 Caribbean immigrants were deported back to the region this year, latest U.S. Immigration and...
Jamaican sent to prison for 6 months for leaving quarantine in Barbados
Visitors and Barbadians returning home have been put on notice that they will pay a hefty price for breaching the island’s COVID-19 protocols, especially...
2020 ends with 1.7 million COVID-19 deaths
The COVID-19 pandemic swept through every country in the Americas in 2020, infecting more than 35 million people and causing some 850,000 deaths. Globally,...