ROSEAU —The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) signed the first development loan agreement provided by the Fund worth $41 million, to finance the infrastructure rehabilitation project in the capital, Roseau, in Dominica.
The agreement represents the (...)
RIYADH — The first summit between Saudi Arabia and 15 countries, representing the CARICOM Organization, will be held on Thursday, Nov.16, in Riyadh. Heads of state, presidents and senior officials of CARICOM countries started arriving on Wednesday (...)
More than 43 million children have been driven from their homes by floods, storms, droughts and wildfires over the six years between 2016 and 2021, according to new data from UNICEF. That works out to 20,000 children displaced every single day due (...)
The United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts "near-normal hurricane activity" in the Atlantic this coming storm season, said the UN weather agency on Friday, forecasting between five and nine major storms that (...)
Forests in at least 10 World Heritage sites have become net sources of carbon, due to pressure from human activity and climate change, according to a new report released on Thursday, by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (...)
At least 10 of the world's most protected forests are emitting more carbon than they absorb driven by human activity like logging and wildfires, a new report said on Wednesday.
The alarming insight came from a study of planet-warming gases emitted (...)
Barbados has elected its first ever president as it prepares to become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth as head of state, BBC reported on Thursday.
Dame Sandra Mason, 72, is set to be sworn in on 30 November, which will mark the country's 55th (...)
During Wednesday's World Health Organization briefing on COVID-19, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for funding to fight the spread of the deadly Delta variant while also asking wealthy countries to suspend plans to provide booster (...)
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added Turkey to "Level 4: COVID-19 Very High" travel recommendations, but people insisting on traveling there must be fully vaccinated.
"Avoid travel to Turkey," the CDC noted in (...)
The Caribbean nation of St. Lucia has imposed a quarantine on a visiting cruise ship, barring any passengers or crew from leaving the boat while in port, after a case of measles was diagnosed on board, the island's chief medical officer said.
Dr. (...)
Tropical Storm Kirk is expected to drop heavy rains that could bring dangerous flooding to the eastern Caribbean, U.S. forecasters said Thursday.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the storm's center was just east of Barbados. It had maximum (...)
Puerto Rico's governor met with mayors from around the ravaged island on Saturday after surveying damage to an earthen dam in the northwestern part of the U.S. territory that was threatening to collapse from flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane (...)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Head of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's delegation to the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir has held a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt (...)
Pakistan put the onus on its bowlers to win a first Test cricket series in the Caribbean after setting the West Indies 304 to win the third Test and taking an early wicket Saturday.
After 14 wickets fell on the slow fourth-day pitch, Pakistan was in (...)
The West Indies beat Pakistan by 106 runs for a series-levelling victory as Shannon Gabriel took 5-11 on the last day of the second test on Thursday.
Pakistan was all out for 81 in its second innings in 34.4 overs, unable to cope with the pace of (...)
West Indies leg-spinner Devendar Bishoo took a career best 8-49 and his Pakistani rival Yasir Shah completed 100 wickets on Sunday as the first Test was poised for an exciting finish in Dubai.
Bishoo's stunning performance limited Pakistan to a (...)
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MUCH has been said and written about India's Mohandas (...)
Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh pounded tons in a triple-century unbroken stand to crush the dispirited West Indies and put Australia in command of the first Test in Hobart Thursday.
In a grim foreboding of what lies ahead for the maligned Caribbean (...)
Kate became the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season Wednesday as the storm moved across open water far from land, U.S. forecasters said.
The hurricane's maximum sustained winds were 120 kilometers per hour (kph) about 450 kilometers north of (...)
The West Indies has named an unchanged 15-man squad for its three-Test tour of Australia, with the main change coming in the reinstatement of head coach Phil Simmons.
Simmons was suspended in September for questioning the continued omissions of (...)
Kate became the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season Wednesday as the storm moved across open water far from land, U.S. forecasters said.
The hurricane's maximum sustained winds were 120 kilometers per hour (kph) about 450 kilometers north of (...)
AlQa'dah 16, 1436, August 31, 2015, SPA -- Rescue teams worked Sunday to reopen roads to remote communities in Dominica after Tropical Storm Erika caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people and left more than 50 missing on the (...)
AlQa'dah 15, 1436, August 30, 2015, SPA -- Tropical Storm Erika dissipated east of Cuba
Saturday after leaving dozens of people dead on the Caribbean island
of Dominica, dpa reported.
The US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said the storm (...)
AlQa'dah 14, 1436, Aug 29, 2015, SPA -- Tropical Storm Erika was losing its punch as it drenched Haiti and the Dominican Republic early Saturday, but it left devastation in its path, killing at least 20 people and leaving another 31 missing on the (...)
AlQa'dah 13, 1436, Aug 28, 2015, SPA -- At least seven people died when tropical storm Erika hit the Caribbean island of Dominica, media reports said Friday, as the weather system moved west and north towards the United States.
According to dpa, the (...)
