Earlier today, the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) Air Traffic Control received a distress call alerting of engine failure of a Piper aircraft enroute from Margarita to Grenada and approved the pilot’s request for an emergency landing at the MBIA. Regrettably, the aircraft subsequently crashed approximately 14 miles off the coast of Grenada. This turn […]
January 26, 2021 – The Government of Grenada has deployed additional resources to the sister islands to strengthen border control, in the face of a growing number of COVID-19 cases in neighbouring St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A second Coast Guard vessel has been deployed to patrol the area between Carriacou and Petite Martinique and […]
Wednesday, December 16, marks the completion of the United States government’s year-long US$1 million upgrade of the Royal Grenada Police Force Coast Guard’s two nearshore intercept vessels. The SAFE Boat Mid-Life Upgrade included a complete vessel overhaul, new engines, and a spare parts package to ensure continued operability. The upgrades extend the vessels’ performance for […]
Belize City, Wednesday, 25 October 2017_ (CRFM) Twenty border control officers from six Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) completed a three-week training course in Fisheries Prosecution and Interdiction, organized by the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) in collaboration with the CRFM Secretariat, the Government of Barbados and the British Royal Navy’s […]
