Port of Spain, Trinidad: The film Cargo by Bahamian film director Karim Mortimer, has won the Amnesty International Human Rights Prize at the recently concluded trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff). Established in an effort to support the promotion of human rights in the Caribbean, the Amnesty International Human Rights Prize is awarded to a Caribbean filmmaker […]
“Heal With Hope Foundation Hosts Discussions in the Communities” THURSDAY, 5TH OCTOBER, 2017 – In recognition of Child Month, the Heal with Hope Foundation (HWHF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse, is continuing its public-sensitisation drive about this silent epidemic that is plaguing Grenada. As October unfolds, the HWHF will […]
ST. GEORGE, GRENADA, OCT 05. 2017, (GIS):- The Botanical Gardens has been renamed in honour of Sir Eric Matthew Gairy Grenada’s Father of Independence and former Prime Minister. The area is now known as Sir Eric Matthew Gairy Botanical Gardens and in his honour as well, a monument has been erected at the entrance of the […]
Wednesday, 4 October 2017: Grenada Electricity Services (Grenlec) has embarked on an exercise to update its customer mapping information. The Company uses customer mapping along with other geographic information systems to respond faster to requests for service. To this end, Grenlec team members are currently in the field conducting a house to house audit of […]
Caribbean countries are meeting this week to discuss a new vision for school feeding programmes that is being promoted through regional and national interventions based on the fundamental elements of education for sustainability and the production of food for schools. The interventions aim at strengthening the process of how policies for food and nutritional education […]
In March of this year, Grenada Co-operative Bank Ltd. announced its initiative for support of the Carlton Home project, an organization which provides care, counselling and rehabilitation for alcohol and substance abusers. As a reminder, the bank committed to donating one dollar per each mile walked by registered ‘Pump It Up’ participants at their annual […]
ST. GEORGE, GRENADA, OCT. 03, 2017 – It was an evening of mixed emotions on Saturday, September 23, 2017, as the first flight from the British Virgin Islands (BVI), carrying Grenadian nationals, landed at the Maurice Bishop International Airport. A few days after Hurricane Irma, CARICOM Chairman, Dr. Keith Mitchell, led a delegation to some […]
ST. GEORGE, GRENADA, OCT. 03, 2017 – Five members of the Grenada Airports Authority (GAA) Disaster Relief team will be stationed in Dominica for the next two weeks to help restore the Douglas-Charles International Airport. General Manager of the GAA, Mrs. Wendy Francette-Williams, said they are happy to assist with Dominica’s restoration efforts in any […]
Bridgetown, Barbados, October 2, 2017 — In the aftermath of the passage of hurricane Maria, the local fire brigade in Dominica has been pressed into service for much of the clean-up and restoration, along with its day-to-day firefighting duties in the capital of Roseau and beyond. Last week, the brigade issued an urgent appeal when […]
The European Union has disbursed 1.368 million euros (EC$4.4M) to Grenada, the first tranche of grant assistance under the 11th European Development Fund towards reform of the country’s health care system. The overall grant amount allocated by the EU under the 11th EDF is 4.8 million euros (EC$15.4M), with 3.4 million euros (EC$11M) earmarked for […]
