(Bridgetown, Barbados)  The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will join government ministers, officials and development partners in exploring better ways of promoting and harnessing growth, during the Third Regional Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF). The event takes place on June 16-17...

Efforts by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency among its Borrowing Member Countries have been advanced by the signing of a Contribution Agreement with the European Union-Caribbean Investment Facility (EU-CIF), in Brussels, Belgium to supp...

Significant progress has been made in the Caribbean towards achieving the goals of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, according to Mr. Shiraz Mohamed, First Secretary of the Guyana Permanent Mission and current Chair of the Caucus of Ambassadors to the United Nations (UN). Mr. Mohammed ...

“Education and employment to promote social inclusion and cohesion” is one of ten key areas in the Action Plan from the just-ended 2nd summit of the European Union and the Community of  Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) in Brussels.  Several CARICOM Heads of Govern...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – With the mosquito-borne Zika Virus closer to home, Jamaica has now implemented a five-point integrated vector management control programme that includes prosecuting people who fail to comply with its provisions. Medical Entomologist in the Ministry of Health Sherine H...

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and the Curaçao Tourist Board have announced the dates for the region’s leading tourism forum, the State of the Industry Conference (SOTIC) 2015. Curaçao will host SOTIC from 21- 23 October 2015 at the famous World Trade Center in Willems...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 11, 2015 (SKNIS): Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris engaged in an intensive two day high-level summit in Brussels over 10-11 June, bringing together heads of state from the European Union (EU), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). He was attendi...

Guyana was bestowed an award for achieving the distinction of meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), relating to hunger. Agriculture Minister Mr. Noel Holder was in attendance at Rome, Italy, for three specialised meetings, as well as for issues regarding Guyana’s membership of variou...

I wish to stress the issue of citizen security and the adjunct to that public policy issue: the education and training of our young. I have said this many times before. There is a sense of hopelessness; there is a problem with joblessness among the young, both here and in our regions, which we must ...

The Hon. Dr. Rufus W. Ewing Premier  of the Turks and Caicos Islands, has committed to championing the fight against NCDs in his homeland and Regionally at the level of Heads of Government in CARICOM. Dr Ewing, who is also his country’s Minister of Health, Agriculture and Human Serv...