PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) says it will not create “a new crisis” in Haiti by rushing ahead to stage the third round of the presidential elections on April 24. “There is no electoral environment favorable in Haiti at this time and fo...

Nineteen students from the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Cave Hill campus in Barbados have concluded a week-long study tour in Jamaica, where they examined the extent of the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The tour is a part of a Public Education Program...

A host of West Indies legends including Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Wes Hall and Andy Robertshave called upon the WICB to dissolve the board, in line with the CARICOM cricket review panel’s recommendation, and appoint an interim committee as part of the structural reforms that would enable the...

The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) has launched an International Reparations Relay & Rally Initiative in Barbados that in coming months will take a ‘reparations baton’ and ‘reparations torch’ from one CARICOM country to the other. The baton and torch will be presen...

Kingston, Jamaica–PitchIT Caribbean, the Canadian government-funded program concerned with mobile app development in the Caribbean, will host the region’s largest tech entrepreneurship competition on June 3 to 4, 2016, in Montego Bay. Registration is now open and will close midnight on A...

Port-of-Spain, CCJ – April 16, 2016, marked the eleventh year since the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) first opened its doors to the people of the Caribbean region. The Court was inaugurated in Port-of-Spain in 2005, and has since been making strides in the advancement of the prov...

In Guyana, over 90% of the country’s population lives along the coastal area, much of which lies below sea level. As such, the country faces significant risk of flooding, and the construction and rehabilitation of drainage, irrigation and sea defense systems is a priority for the Government. ...

(Feature by Organisation of American States) Like many of its neighbours, Antigua and Barbuda has some of the highest electricity prices in the world, with rates several times higher than in the United States, and incomes considerably lower.  In light of this challenge, the OAS, through the En...

The Zika virus has been confirmed to cause a rare birth defect called microcephaly and other severe problems of the brain, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health officials across the globe have suspected for months a link between the virus and the...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)   The new Governments in Jamaica and Haiti which together account for approximately 71 percent  of People living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, have agreed to send high level representatives to the UN High Level Meeting (UN ...