Eliminating mosquito breeding sites, avoiding mosquito bites, and protecting pregnant women from Zika virus are the key messages of the inaugural Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week, launched today by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and th...

The Region’s Foreign Ministers gather in St. Vincent and the Grenadines this morning for the Nineteenth Meeting of CARICOM’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR). The two-day meeting will, among other things, examine the implications for the Caribbean Community of severa...

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS and NEVIS (PRESS SEC) – Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, on Tuesday championed CARICOM’s case on correspondent banking during an important consultation in Washington, D.C., with State and Treasury officials at the US Dep...

A meeting is currently underway in Barbados to chart the course for a new study on the impacts of rising cost factors of fishing operations. The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) is convening the two-day meeting which concludes today. Among the rising cost factors in the ...

A Commission, charged with creating a Human Resource Development Strategy for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will be launched on Thursday, 12 May, 2016, in Barbados. The ceremony will be hosted at the Caribbean Development Bank(CDB). CARICOM Heads of Government took the decision to establish th...

Partnership will aid cleaner, cheaper, and more secure sources of energy for the Caribbean Region President Luis Alberto Moreno of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), President Warren Smith of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Secretary Ernest Moniz of the United States Department of Ene...

In preparation for this country’s hosting of the 13th edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) from August 17 to 27, 2017, the Government of Barbados is inviting submissions of jingles, as well as designs for the CARIFESTA XIII logo. Both the winning jingle and logo will be award...

The Belize Public Utilities Commission announced that Belize’s first Internet exchange point, named BIXP, was successfully launched in Belize City on April 27 at the campus of the University of Belize. The launch was the culmination of unprecedented collaboration between Belizean Internet Ser...

The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Toba...

The just ended Caribbean Energy Security Summit in Washington gave a commitment to support the Caribbean’s transformation of the energy systems.   The Caribbean Energy Security Summit in session: Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley at the Head Table for CARICOM. CARICOM...