A number of CARICOM Heads of Government have joined their counterparts from across the Commonwealth for the two-day Summit of Commonwealth leaders which opened in Malta this morning. Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings, bring together 53 Commonwealth nations, (mainly former British colonies) e...

The Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, said Wednesday that the damage his country suffered during the passage of Hurricane Joaquin showed that climate change was real. The Prime Minister, who is also The Bahamas’s Minister of Finance made the assertion in his address to the C...

he Caribbean is open to business! That was Prime Minister Freundel Stuart’s clear message today in Malta, as he addressed a Commonwealth Business Forum which focused on investment in the Caribbean.  He was joined by the Prime Ministers of St. Kitts and Nevis, Timothy Harris; and Tri...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday November 25, 2015 – The Caribbean is being told it can build on the gains of its HIV responses to end AIDS as a public health threat, if it follows a new strategy created by the United Nations’ Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). A new ...

In the last ten years alone the Caribbean achieved a 61 per cent reduction in Aids-related deaths, according to a report, titled Focus on location and population: Fast track to end Aids by 2030, which was released from UNAids World yesterday. December 1 marks World Aids Day. The report said since ...

The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) initiated a Justice for All program in September 2013, that was designed to achieve broad based goals for ending AIDS in the region. The goals included enhancing family life and focusing on those in need; increasing access to treatments an...

Today is being observed as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. From 25 November to 10 December,  there will be a 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence initiative aimed at raising public awareness and mobilizing people everywhere to bri...

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – (November 25, 2015) President David Granger, this morning departed for the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which will be held in Malta from November 27-29, 2015. With the President set to once again deliver a strong message on th...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Nov 25 2015 – The Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says the development of regional strategies could be the key if Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are to meet the challenges posed by the latest reform of the Common Agricultural P...

What is the importance of having a goal of sustainable development specifically dedicated to energy (SDG 7) as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2016 to 2030? Representatives of the Ministries of Energy of 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean met in Tarija, Boli...