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Bridgetown, Barbados (CDEMA) –  The Deputy Executive Director (DED) of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Ms.

The heads of state from the Mercosur sub-regional bloc assembled in the capital of Brazil Friday for its 48th summit.

Former Barbadian Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, has strongly commended  Jamaica’s  social partnership thrust, saying the Caribbean cannot afford to “waste its democracy” like some other nat

The International Disaster Database, Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, has found a threefold increase of natural disasters from the period 1980-90 to the last decade (2000-09).

Honourable Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Grenada and CARIFORUM High Representative,

Honourable Ministers,

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Friday July 17, 2015 – The St. Kitts and Nevis government says it has ramped up its pursuit of geothermal energy as it seeks to expand renewable energy alternatives.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) today approved grant assistance of

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago -  As part of preparation efforts to prevent and manage potential Ebola cases, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the CA

The Third Meeting of the Joint CARIFORUM-European Union (EU) Council under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) took place in Georgetown, Guyana, on 16 July 2015.

VANCOUVER — Global partners in the Diagnostics Access Initiative have joined with Roche Diagnostics to announce a 35 percent reduction in the price for HIV early infa

The world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Combat HIV, AIDS and other diseases is United Nations Millennium Development goal number six. 

The Community recognises that the challenges of development are deep-seated.

A call was made by Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, for more efficient sharing of information and ideas on the challenges facing the education systems across the Caribbean.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The need for a “whole systems’ approach to education transformation in the Region is a major area of focus for Caribbean Co

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Third Meeting of the Joint CARIFORUM-European Union (EU) Council under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EP

TOURISM in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the Greater Caribbean will be positive impacted by two very different, but important events this month, one in which the first steps have already been tak

Bridgetown, Barbados, July 16th, 2015 (CDB) - The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has joined forces with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada and the Department for I

Despite news that surfaced last year that the United States President Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) had discontinued its funding of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Networ