PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The European Union is providing an Euro 8.6 million (One Euro = US$1.29) grant to support a project to improve Caribbean food security in the context of climate change. The project is being conducted in Belize, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Devant Maharaj, Minister of Food Production, told the T&T Guardian that a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is being prepared to bolster relations between Guyana and T&T with respect to food security. He was speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the openin...

CARIFORUM food exporters will benefit from some much needed assistance when the Caribbean Export Development Agency rolls out a €500,000 Special Assistance Programme funded under the 10th EDF programme of the European Union (EU), to help prepare them for existing and anticipated food safety reg...

Over the past years there has been a significant decline in traditional exports to the European Union (EU) while our extra-regional food import bill is estimated at around $3.5 to $4 billion US dollars annually. That’s according to Acting Prime Minister Ambrose George who was at the time add...

In an effort to increase food production, improve nutrition, and achieve a Professor Chandra A. Madramootoo of Mc Gill University (left) inking documents with Permanent Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry, George Jervis reduction in the food import bill within the Caribbean, Guyana, like other ...

The Jamaican Government has placed an order for sugar from Guyana to avert shortages in that CARICOM country. Quoting the Agriculture Ministry, the Jamaican Observer yesterday said that it has put in place measures to avert a shortage of sugar on the local market and has urged distributors not to h...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Diplomatic relations spanning 36 years between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba will be consolidated at the Third CARICOM/Cuba Summit, as Caribbean leaders seek to explore and exchange ideas on how to solve critical issues affecti...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Region continues to identify and implement measures to achieve food security in a time of spiraling cost of living, the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in a special se...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) H.E Irwin Larocque, Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic Integration at the CARICOM Secretariat told the first formal meeting of Plant Health officials from across the Caribbean, that the Region needs to produce more than it c...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) While the Caribbean has made some strides in addressing the issue of food security, much work needs to be done to meet some pressing challenges that continue to face the Caribbean in this critical area of development. This was underscored...