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AI being added to school curriculum
Barbados Today
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September 4, 2025
97 Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to classrooms in Barbados, as education officials work to ensure students are not left behind in the digital age. AI is set to be introduced into the secondary school curriculum through a new initiative...
Afro-lux at Alara: How Reni Folawiyo built Africa’s first luxury concept store
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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September 7, 2025
With Alara, Nigeria’s first luxury concept store, Reni Folawiyo has spent a decade redefining African design. Her vision of “Afro-lux” blends tradition and modernity, creating a platform that celebrates African creativity on the global stage. Its...
FOCOL targets ‘largest ever B$ financing deal’
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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September 4, 2025
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net FOCOL Holdings is in “advanced talks” to raise $300m-$500m for overhauling New Providence’s energy generation via “the largest private sector financing deal to ever take place in...
What Caribbean families should know before switching to electric vehicles
Caribbean National Weekly
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September 7, 2025
Electric vehicles (EVs) are transforming how people drive. Families across the Caribbean are starting to explore this new option. The appeal comes from lower fuel costs and a cleaner environment. Many also see EVs as a symbol of progress. One...
From sargassum to the blue economy: a sustainable opportunity for the Greater Caribbean
Dominican Today
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As climate change warms the oceans and alters nutrient flows in rivers like the Amazon, sargassum thrives. However, when it reaches the coast and begins to decompose, it emits toxic gases, primarily hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, posing increasing...
T&T at Carifesta XV: Loud, proud and unapologetically Trinbagonian
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Brent Pinheiro On August 29, just over 70 people from T&T took to the Grand Market Hall stage at Carifesta XV in Barbados with one purpose—to show the region and the world what Trinbagonian culture is. And show them they did....
Sutherland says quitting ‘personal’, but pundit suggests there may be more
Barbados Today
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September 4, 2025
305 The resignation of Housing Minister Dwight Sutherland — the third such departure from Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s Cabinet in less than a year — has prompted one political scientist to question whether more is happening behind the scenes...
New guidelines to boost safety, protection, and competitiveness
Barbados Today
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September 3, 2025
51 A sweeping set of new national standards, designed to bolster public safety, consumer protection and the competitiveness of Barbadian products and services is set to be introduced soon, Barbados TODAY has learnt. The measures—approved by the...
Taxi co-op head urges park-and-ride scheme stay after CARIFESTA
Barbados Today
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September 3, 2025
24 Barbados should make the park-and-ride service a permanent fixture at major events to tackle chronic traffic jams, a leading taxi cooperative president has said, while calling this year’s CARIFESTA XV“transformative” for both operators and...
British Airways announces “The End of Summer Sale” for flights and holidays
Breaking Travel News
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September 2, 2025
British Airways and British Airways Holidays have launched “The End of Summer Sale”, offering customers the chance to banish their summer blues by booking their next adventure with savings across flights and holiday packages. Running until 30...
Afreximbank ready to invest in regional creative sector
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The director of Creatives and Diaspora at the Cairo-based Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Temwa Gondwe, says there is potential for the financial institution to invest in film production, music, fashion and sports in...
Pre-budget recommendations from TTCSI, Amcham T&T: Address crime, ease of doing business and digital drive
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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As the UNC administration prepares to deliver its first national budget, key business organisations like the T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) and Amcham T&T have presented a unified vision for a diversified...
Bryden’s T&T listing allows existing shareholders to sell
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Hoping to follow on from its success on the Jamaican Stock Exchange, two Fridays ago AS Bryden & Sons Holdings (ASBH) was officially listed on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE). The AS Bryden Group has a rich legacy...
September forecast: Trouble brewing in back half of hurricane season
Tallahassee Democrat - Florida
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Like the location of bread in a Costco, the weather is never the same from week to week. Fortunately, as we approach the halfway point of hurricane season 2025, the main source of excitement in life thus far this year has been new items at the...
Regional tech startups have a new champion
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Andrea Perez-Sobers Senior Reporter andrea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt For decades, the Caribbean has exported its brightest minds and most promising startups to foreign jurisdictions. Rawle Annandsingh, Director of the Founder...
Guyanese players excited to play Massy Women’s CPL at home
News Room
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September 4, 2025
Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) 2025 will begin on Saturday, September 6, at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, with the first of seven epic clashes. The tournament, now in its fourth season, will feature three franchise teams:...
Carnival Cruise Line Opens New 2027 Sailings for Carnival Firenze
Cruise Addicts - Georgia
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September 1, 2025
Carnival Cruise Line opened reservations for a lineup of new 2027 cruises aboard Carnival Firenze, including three distinct, unforgettable Carnival Journeys voyages across South America and 10 new Caribbean cruise options from Miami. The new...
Government Printing Department closing temporarily
Barbados Today
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September 4, 2025
22 The Government Printing Department has advised that its office will be closed from Friday, September 5, 2025, until further notice. This closure is to facilitate industrial cleaning. Persons who wish to publish advertisements in the Official...
Venezuela seeking support in light of US military presence in the region
The Nation Barbados
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August 29, 2025
Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs, Yvan Gil, has held talks with Prime Minister Gaston Browne, as Caracas seeks support from regional countries following the decision of the United States to increase its military presence near the South American...
Texas restricts Chinese owning and renting property
The Nation Barbados
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August 29, 2025
Jason Yuan, a second-hand car shop owner, closes the hood of a vehicle after tightening the last nut on the battery terminal – a routine he is all too familiar with. Texas has long felt like home for him, as a naturalised US citizen born in China....