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British Airways has just made it a whole lot easier to get home to Barbados. From 25 October, the airline is launching a daily, year-round service between London Gatwick and Bridgetown, and come the winter peak it will be running three flights a day to the island once Heathrow services increase too. By summer 2027, Heathrow is set for double-daily flights for the first time ever, as part of what BA is calling its biggest-ever commitment to Barbados after 72 years of serving t

Six weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore across western Jamaica, the island is shifting from emergency relief to the slower, steadier work of recovery, and the Jamaican diaspora is right there in it. The JN Foundation and Lutheran World Relief, through its humanitarian arm CORUS, have handed over three containers of relief supplies and more than US$1 million in material resources to the Jamaica Red Cross, which has now reached over 100,000 people across 205 distributions in Wes

From the 25th to the 28th of October, Georgetown will play host to the Caribbean Shipping Association's 56th Annual General Meeting and Conference, bringing maritime and logistics leaders from across the region to the Guyana Marriott Hotel. It is no accident that the gathering is landing in Guyana this year. The country's oil-and-gas-fuelled growth has been stretching its ports and terminals in ways few in the region anticipated a decade ago, and shipping leaders want to see

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Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to Grenada from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes.

Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to Barbados from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes.

Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to St Vincent from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes.

FCL vs shared containers, 20ft vs 40ft sizes, timelines, and what you can pack — everything you need to know about shipping a container to Trinidad from the UK.

Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to St Lucia from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes.

FCL vs shared containers, 20ft vs 40ft sizes, timelines, and what you can pack — everything you need to know about shipping a container to Barbados from the UK.

FCL vs shared containers, 20ft vs 40ft sizes, timelines, and what you can pack — everything you need to know about shipping a container to Guyana from the UK.

Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to Dominica from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes.

Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to Guyana from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes.

FCL vs shared containers, 20ft vs 40ft sizes, timelines, and what you can pack — everything you need to know about shipping a container to Grenada from the UK.

FCL vs shared containers, 20ft vs 40ft, timelines via Kingston Freeport, and what you can pack — everything you need to know about shipping a container to Jamaica from the UK.

Everything you need to know about shipping a barrel to Jamaica from the UK — what to pack, customs rules, costs from £95, and how long it takes via Kingston Freeport.

Almost a year on from Hurricane Melissa, the Category 5 storm that tore through southwestern Jamaica on October 28, 2025, the island's rebuilding effort is moving from emergency patch-ups to something more lasting. This week, Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon announced a new Hurricane Melissa School Infrastructure Recovery and Resilience Oversight Committee, chaired by attorney Rochelle Cameron, to keep watch over the estimated $26 billion JMD repair programme. Melissa

This month, a Jamaican government delegation led by Culture Minister Olivia Grange travelled to London to formally press the case for slavery reparations from Britain. The petition, addressed to King Charles III and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, asks for legal guidance on three questions: whether the enslavement of African people was ever lawful under English common law, whether it violated international law, and whether the UK now carries a legal obligation to

For the first time in over a decade, ships heading to Nigeria will sail a little easier. The US Coast Guard has formally removed Nigeria from its Port Security Advisory list, ending a 12-year Condition of Entry that added extra security checks and costs to every vessel calling at Nigerian ports. The restriction, imposed in 2014 over concerns about anti-terrorism measures at the country's ports, is now gone. The decision came in an August letter from US Assistant Secretary for

Three researchers with deep roots in Jamaica have just picked up what's being called the world's biggest prize in education. Professor Susan Walker and Dr Susan Chang-Lopez of The University of the West Indies, together with Professor Sally Grantham-McGregor of University College London, were named winners of the 2026 Yidan Prize for Education Development this month, recognised for a programme that started as a small study in Jamaica back in 1986 and has since reached hundred