UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20 2015 (IPS) - The United Nations will make its third – and perhaps final – attempt at reaching an agreement to launch negotiations for an international biodiversity treaty governing the high seas. A four-day meeting of a U.N. Ad Hoc Working Group is expected t...

Former Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur says while the decision in 1989 to transform CARICOMeconomies into a single market and economy was one of the most momentous decisions in the history of the Caribbean, “it was a transformation that was never going to be easily achieved.”...

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, met on Wednesday 21 January 2015 with a delegation from Martinique, which is one of five Caribbean territories which have applied for Associate Membership of CARICOM. The delegation from the Regional Council of ...

CANANEWS  - The Jamaica Parliament will decide on April 28 whether or not Jamaica should join the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Appeal as its final court replacing the London-based Privy Council. Government has tabled three bills, namely an act to make provision for the implementation of t...

KINGSTON, January 21, 2015 - The Government is looking to partner with Japan to explore the development of pharmaceutical items from fish trimmings. Minister of State for Agriculture, Labour, and Social Security, Hon. Luther Buchanan, made the disclosure at a seminar held on January 21 at the Medal...

The Ministry of Education is expressing confidence in attaining its goal of 85 per cent of students in the grade four age cohort achieving mastery of literacy in 2015. An optimistic Portfolio Minister, Rev. Ronald Thwaites, notes that the country is now 7.6 per cent away from achieving this target. ...

The Caribbean Association of National Telecommunications Organization (CANTO’)s 1st Youth Forum themed `The Caribbean Startup- Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ will be launched on 27 January, 2015 during the organisation’s 31st Annual General Meeting and Mini Expo f...

CCJ Symposium programme The Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, in collaboration with the High Commission of Canada, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the International Labour Organization, the Organization of American States, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Un...

Creative and Cultural Industry (CCI) workers in St. Kitts and Nevis have another opportunity to become empowered with knowledge about intellectual property right procedures at a National Copyright Seminar scheduled for 26 and 27 January, 2015. Organised by the World Intellectual Property Organizati...

CANANEWS  - The Jamaica Parliament will decide on April 28 whether or not Jamaica should join the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Appeal as its final court replacing the London-based Privy Council. Government has tabled three bills, namely an act to make provision for the implementation of t...