Government is expressing its gratitude to the United Nations Development Programme and the entire United Nations system, for their assistance in helping the country to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Senator Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade made the comments while speaking at the Opening Session of the Caribbean Regional Human Development Report Multinational Progress First Advisory Panel Meeting at the Hilton Hotel yesterday morning.

Strengthening and expanding community-based approaches to delivering HIV treatment is vital to the long-term success of the AIDS response, according to a report launched on 20 April by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) and UNAIDS.

The report highlights MSF’s innovative approaches to the critical challenge of how to scale up treatment to ensure that people living with HIV have access to antiretroviral therapy through ways that fit in with their daily lives.

We have been at it as far back as 1921, when the Jamaican legislature saw a motion to ask the British Colonial Office to consult the other islands on the idea of a federation – this notion of regional unity, that is. We had gone on to embrace the idea officially in 1947 in Montego Bay with the formation of the Standing Closer Association Committee (SCAC) to draft a federal constitution uniting the British Caribbean territories (the then British Guiana had reserved its position awaiting developments).

Warren Cassell, Jr. is a fifteen year old investor, author and entrepreneur from Montserrat.

From a very early age, Warren knew that he wanted to own a business. At the age of eight, with a capital investment from his parents, he launched his own greeting card and graphic design company. 

When rhythm, melody and prose unite, there’s magic.  A song can soothe the angry heart, bring joy to the saddest of souls and inspire a generation to succeed.  The magicians who create these phenomena, are to celebrated and loved.  One such magician hails from a vibrant village in the south of Dominica known as Grand Bay.  Her name? Michele Henderson.  From the tender age of two she was already honing her craft, singing at church, where her father played the guitar.