Eco­nom­ic re­con­struc­tion in the Caribbean post-COVID-19 can­not be done with­out the con­sid­er­a­tion and in­clu­sion of cli­mate change.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is ex­pect­ed to make a ma­jor an­nounce­ment on oil and gas ex­plo­ration suc­cess when he holds a news con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre this morn­ing.

Ali­cia Bárce­na, the ex­ec­u­tive sec­re­tary of the Unit­ed Na­tion’s (UN) Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion for Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has re­vealed that the COVID-19 in­duced con­trac­tion of the re­gion will per­pet­u­ate greater in­come in­equal­i­ty and plunge more peo­ple in­to pover­ty.

State-owned Caribbean Air­lines will soon be mak­ing a re­con­nec­tion to Lon­don through an ex­pand­ed part­ner­ship with Vir­gin At­lantic, Guardian Me­dia has learnt.

As a re­sult of the im­pact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, two of the world’s lead­ing econ­o­mists have claimed that the re­cov­ery pe­ri­od for the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­can re­gion would be very pro­tract­ed as com­pared to rest of the globe.

En­er­gy gi­ant bpTT has been giv­en a 10-year ex­ten­sion on 92 of its ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion li­cences in the Colum­bus Basin.

Tech­nol­o­gy gi­ant Mas­ter­card has an­nounced its part­ner­ship with Wi­Pay, build­ing on its strate­gic plan to evolve and de­vel­op its pres­ence in the Caribbean.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance has so far paid out 74,549 Salary Re­lief Grants with a to­tal val­ue of $112 mil­lion, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert stat­ed in a tweet yes­ter­day.

The rev­e­la­tion that hav­ing spent $70 mil­lion on a Car­diac Catheter­i­za­tion Lab­o­ra­to­ry for the To­ba­go Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, the lab re­mains shut to na­tion­als, is an­oth­er ex­am­ple of the fun­da­men­tal chal­lenge fac­ing the coun­try, that of a lack of plan­ning, ex­e­cu­tion and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Nigel Ro­mano has been ap­point­ed the chair­man of the board of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Prop­er­ty De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NIPDEC).

En­deav­our Hold­ings Ltd (EHL) has ex­pe­ri­enced an 83 per cent de­cline in its prof­its for the year end­ed April 30, 2020—slid­ing from $38 mil­lion to $6.4 mil­lion. The com­pa­ny’s core busi­ness is in the lease and rental of prop­er­ties.

Well, when I first heard of the un­ortho­dox com­bi­na­tion I im­me­di­ate­ly trans­formed in­to Rud­yard Kipling and thought “0h, East is East, and West is West, and nev­er the twain shall meet.”