Several CARICOM Heads of Government are in Brussels for the 2nd EU-CELAC Summit, which opens today and concludes tomorrow. The Summit, under the theme “Shaping our common futures: Working for prosperous, cohesive and sustainable societies for our citizens” brings together 61 Heads of St...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jun 8, CMC – The St. Lucia-based Caribbean Drug and Alcohol Research Institute ‎(CDARI) says it is willing to provide support to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Cannabis Commission. In a June 8 letter to CARICOM Secretary General, Irwin La Rocque, CDARI director Dr....

World Oceans Day was celebrated on Monday 8 June 2015. For the Caribbean Region, the ocean represents the life blood for critical economic sectors including agriculture, tourism, fisheries, and transportation. Seized on the importance of the ocean to the Region, the Caribbean Community Secretariat s...

The Forum of ‘Key Stakeholders on NCDs: Advancing the NCD Agenda in the Caribbean’, now underway in Bridgetown, Barbados, is a high level meeting were health leaders from throughout the Caribbean are discussing actions to intensify efforts to tackle chronic diseases and their risk factor...

Governments of the Caribbean and the United States agreed to undertake a number of security-related priority actions at a High Level Security Cooperation Dialogue, held in The Bahamas, 4 June, 2015. The Nassau Commitment for Citizen Security in the Caribbean, issued following the meeting,  req...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has links with the ocean that surrounds it that can be described as spiritual, cultural and economic. The economic benefits to this Region, derived from Ocean resources, cannot be underestimated. The fishing industry, for example, is estimated to provide jobs for m...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday June 8, 2015 – The Red Cross has been called to account for its operation in Haiti, after reports emerged claiming that the charity had built just six houses in the impoverished country since the January 2010 earthquake, despite raising almost half a billion dolla...

Caribbean academics and researchers are now able to be part of a network of worldwide collaborators with access to collaboration tools, as well as a means to application-sharing over the next 24 months as a European Commission supported project called MAGIC has begun. The Middleware for collaborativ...

THE A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government will be prioritising regional integration,   President David Granger told Trinidad-based media entity, WIN TV, on Saturday during an interview.Asked about future cooperation between Trinidad and Tobago...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Friday May 5, 2015 – St. Lucia’s Ministry of Health has put the public on alert for increased risk of heat stroke and other heat related illnesses in light of the continuing drought conditions affecting the island. Heat stroke, also known as sunstroke, is a severe i...