GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Less than 24 hours after Barbados declared an alert following an increase in gastroenteritis on the island, health authorities in Guyana say they are monitoring reports of an outbreak of the infection of the lining of the digestive tract in the north west district that has so far resulted in the death of one person.
ROSEAU, Dominica - Dominica’s CARICOM Youth Ambassador, Natasha Jervier, has been charged with the responsibility of promoting issues affecting health in the regional union. Jervier recently joined other youth ambassadors from across the region for internship at the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana. “They (CARICOM) needed one young person among the youth ambassadors to take on the responsibility of health and health promotion and I was given that responsibility,” she said.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is good to know that at this time when rising fuel prices continue to impact on the general cost of living, fresh thinking is being encouraged for Barbados to revisit its absence from among the countries of the Caribbean that have long been beneficiaries of Venezuela’s significantly subsidized Petrocaribe project.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The revolutionary PetroCaribe initiative that allowed signatory nations to benefit from subsidised Venezuelan fuel and the role its architect Hugo Chávez, the late President of Venezuela played as a patron in Latin American and Caribbean integration, were among the highlights at a reflection of the life of the leftist leader Monday afternoon.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica is the second Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to have participated in a survey conducted by an international organization assessing enterprises in developing countries to help them better understand the non-tariff barriers to trade.
The International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint cooperation agency of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), also conducted the survey in Trinidad and Tobago under a three year programme that was launched in 2010.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has arrived in Haiti to promote investment in the agriculture sector in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
Clinton, who is also the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti, is heading a delegation on a two-day visit that will include visits to an agriculture school, a coffee-processing plant and a brewery. He is expected to announce several grants from his Clinton Foundation during his stay.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Jamaica Teachers Association, (JTA) has become the latest public sector union to sign a wage restraint agreement with the Portia Simpson Miller led administration.
Previously, the teachers’ union had stated that it could not make such an agreement and as a result did not join other public sector unions, which signed the agreement with the government last week.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - THERE is an intriguing story in yesterday's Sunday Observer about a push by The Bahamas to make sports a major engine of growth for its huge tourism industry. Those who haven't read it, should.
Much has been said in Jamaica about sports and its potential as a money spinner — especially since this island of 2.7 million is the envy of the world in terms of sporting achievement.
But as Assistant Sports Editor Mr Sean Williams pointed out in yesterday's story, the Bahamians aren't just "talking the talk, they are walking the walk".
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has indicated that it will most probably hold a referendum on oil development during the latter part of 2015, if present exploration efforts prove that there is sufficient oil to economically transform the country “for many generations to come”.
“Estimates suggest that exploration data, sufficient to answer the question of whether we have petroleum reserves in commercially viable quantities, would probably not be available until the latter part of 2014 or early 2015.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) that they face similar challenges now confronting the Eurozone countries.
Alfred Schipke, formerly of the IMF Western Hemisphere Division, said the Eastern Caribbean Currency and Economic Union, may be the smallest of three economic and currency unions worldwide, bringing together eight small islands, whose total combined population is less than a million.