Playing the lottery is a popular pastime in the Caribbean, where there are multiple lottery games. Most commonly played among these games is The Caribbean Lottery...
THE main whistleblower in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Christopher Wylie, has agreed to testify before a Joint Select Committee in Trinidad and Tobago to bring some...
Jamaica-based Hacker Hostel, a software developer agency focused on outsourcing short-term JavaScript programming jobs in North American companies with Caribbean talent, has been selected to be among...
Those old enough will remember the sound of a dial-up Internet modem, the anticipation felt as it played like the introduction to your favourite song, albeit...
Gabriel Abed, founder of Bitt.com and Vice President of the board of directors, describes how he went from mining Bitcoin to persuading governors of central banks to not quash...
by Matthew Cowen Could new tech platforms provide the missing link in Public Transport in the Caribbean? If we look at the context of public transportation...
Build’n’Code is a 5-day hackathon opened to persons on St Kitts interested in web development. A maximum of 20 participants on teams of 3-5 will develop...
Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Tafawa Pierre, says Grenadians have been fleeced out of millions of dollars as a result of online financial scams....
WiPay, an e-commerce platform which allows users to make, accept and process digital payments, was officially launched in Jamaica last Thursday at the AC Hotel in Kingston....
Jamaica lost in excess of J$12 billion to cybercrime in 2016 alone, and, given evidence that Eastern European hackers are among those cashing in on this...
“Island Life”: what a better way to stay connected to one’s true rich Caribbean culture provided by an augmented reality filter. Stay anywhere in the world...
It is widely recognised that access to finance is one of the biggest barriers to more young people becoming engaged in agriculture. Here, Varun Baker, a...
In what could only be described as another David & Goliath battle, the accommodation booking giant Airbnb which is estimated to be worth over USD 30...
Caribbean Tech Maven Ingrid Riley, who kickstarted Jamaica’s Tech Startup Community and facilitated and promoted tech entrepreneurship and innovation across the Region, is taking her 15...
Microfinancing firm Sprint Financial Services has introduced two new business lines, purchase order financing and transfers of PayPal payments through newly developed portal SprintFinx.com. The online portal...
JAMAICA’S leading information technology magnate Douglas Halsall still has a little way yet to complete his current fixation, which is to fully digitalise operations at the...
by Matthew Cowen Paradigm shifts Much like the industrial revolutions we have been experiencing since, well, practically the birth of man, technological advances can...
Facebook and the accelerator parallel18, an initiative of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust, are partnering to launch Startup Hub Caribbean on the 25th...
Chairman of the Jamaica Esports Initiative (JEI), Gregory Moore, has hailed the association’s acceptance into the International Esports Federation (IEF). Moore said the move by the...
by Adrian Gulliver There’s no doubt about it – live streaming is transforming the world as we know it. The latest way for industries across the...
