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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) extends its most heartfelt condolences to the immediate family, relatives and friends of the late Hildebrand James, former Technical Director of the Government Information Service (GIS). We especially remember in our prayers Mrs. Verna James, his mother, a hardworking supporter of the St. Andrew South […]

April 10, 2015: The National Democratic Congress notes with great concern the deterioration in relations between the United States of America ( United States)  and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( Venezuela). We hold firmly to the belief that differences between states in our hemisphere must be addressed in good faith […]

Editorial, Caribupdate Weekly April 9, 2015 It is habitual, and part of our tradition, to emphasize the importance of the tourism industry by focusing on cruise industry; by rolling out statistics on numbers of ships scheduled to stop at our ports and by pointing to expected increases in cruise visitors […]

ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, April1, 2015- GIS: There is a mounting excitement within the Diaspora in parts of North America as JetBlue presses ahead with plans to fly the Grenadian skies. News of heightened anticipation overseas is being reported by Elizabeth Ninomiya, JetBlue’s Manager of Corporate Communications for Latin America and […]

GEORGE’S, Grenada, (March 31, 2015): Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, this season’s SGU Knowledge Bowl was an exciting showdown between the defending champions, the gentlemen of Presentation Brothers’ College (PBC) and the ladies of St. Joseph’s Convent, St. George’s (SJC). Although both teams have made it to the finals four times […]

GEORGE’S, Grenada, (March 31, 2015): St. George’s University’s True Blue Campus was teeming with more than 1,400 secondary school students and young adults from all over the country on March 28 as they assembled for the 2015 SGU and Rotaract Club of Grenada (GRC) Career Day. The event attracted students seeking […]

St. George’s, Grenada. On Sunday 15th March, staff of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank and members of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) partnered once again to renew a number of road and directional signs along Melville Street in the capital, St. George’s. The CIBC FirstCaribbean team first worked alongside the […]

By Neals Chitan Although the very last label I will like to wear is that of an “alarmist,” I have to sound the alarm today. You see, the term “alarmist” carries with it an urgent emotional connotation which heightens the need for immediate intervention and task force response, and that […]

Editorial, Caribupdate Weekly March 19, 2015 In the post-1972 election period in Grenada, after Eric Gairy announced that he was beginning the process to attaining full political independence from Britain, the opposition of the day – inside and outside of parliament – cranked up a “no’’ campaign. The parliamentary opposition […]

By Arley Gill In response to the suggestion that the United States has a definite foreign policy strategy in the Middle East, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – who was Chief of Staff to Colin Powel, the then US Secretary of State who also served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]