“If there's one industry that we can develop right now to diversify our economies and make our economies competitive, it is to build a sporting industry in our region.” The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles made the statement at th...

- app changing the job landscape Forget walking with CXC certificates and hoping not to lose or crease them and forget not having your credentials when you bump into a potential employer on the street. With the new CXC Connect mobile app those days are gone. The job landscape for millennials is go...

he prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis had the ear of former US President Bill Clinton yesterday at a Clinton Global Initiative event in New York City. Timothy Harris was there in his capacity as CARICOM’s lead head on human resources, health and HIV/AIDS, holding discussions aimed at promot...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 25, 2017 (SKNIS):  A number of tax administrators from across the CARICOM region are currently in St. Kitts and Nevis attending the 24th General Assembly and Technical Conference of the Caribbean Organization of Tax Administrators (COTA), with the aims of encouraging...

Barbados is now home to the first Regional Climate Centre (RCC) in the western hemisphere. The centre, which is housed at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) in Husbands, St James, was financed to the tune of US$5 million by the United States Agency for Internatio...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have agreed to establish a committee that will look at ways at incorporating both the public and private sector in the overall development of the regional tourism industry, Bahamas Prime Minister, Dr. Hubert Minnis, has said. Minnis, who is attending his first ...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (10th left) and other regional leaders at the opening ceremony of the 38th Regular Meeting of Heads of Government of CARICOM at the Grenada Trade Centre, Grand Anse, St. George’s, on July 4. (Photo via JIS) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday ...

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS has completed his tenure in the Caribbean region. Guyana-born Edward Greene was appointed to the post on 1 January 2012, and is now looking ahead to future opportunities. “I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for ...

Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, is of the view that the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is still the most viable way for sustainable development in the Region. He made this disclosure at the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty Eighth Regular Meeting of th...

...says in face of negative perception that CARICOM is 'a waste of time' While the objective of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has not yet been fully realised, the 15-member grouping, which seeks to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, is not a waste of time. Th...