KINGSTON, Jamaica -- What does the rise of China’s economy and active diplomacy mean for the Caribbean? The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean examines China’s hegemony during its first module for 2015. The week-long intensive course runs from January 19 to 24 at UWI’s St Augustin...

(Reuters) - Developing and bringing to market effective Ebola vaccines requires extreme measures and unprecedented international cooperation, global health experts said on Monday. In an interim report on a roadmap for vaccines against the current and any future outbreaks of the deadly virus, infect...

GENEVA, Switzerland, Tuesday January 13, 2015, CMC – A new study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has found that Jamaica has the highest proportion of women managers, globally, ahead of countries like the United States and the United Kingdom The study also found that while women...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, Monday January 12, 2015, IPS – For decades, the fertile slopes of La Soufriere volcano, which occupies the northern third of this 344-kilometre-square island, has produced illegally grown marijuana that fuels the local underground economy, and the trade in that...

ATLANTA, Jan. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Five years after the devastating earthquake in 2010 left millions in need of urgent medical care, Haiti has made significant progress toward rebuilding the national public health system. Working with the Haitian government, U.S. Centers for Dise...

President of Haiti H.E.  Michel Martelly, accompanied by the First Lady Mrs. Sophia Martelly, the Prime Minister Mr. Evans Paul, the First Minister  Ms. Florence Duperval Guillaume, members of the various state institutions, the religious community, civil society, the diplomatic and consul...

St. Vincent and the Grenadines was thrown into a state of mourning Monday after a mini bus with about  16 school children and three other persons overturned between Fancy and Owia, on the island’s north east coast  and plunged into the sea below.  Official reports put the d...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 13, CMC – The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is warning the region to “move expeditiously” towards building resilience amid predictions of the Caribbean being hit with an earthquake with a magnitude of eight or ...

United States Vice President Joe Biden will be hosting the first-ever Caribbean Energy Security Summit later this month. The summit will be held in Washington, DC on Jan. 26. “The Vice President looks forward to welcoming Caribbean leaders and representatives of the international community t...

The Permanent Representative of Suriname to the Organization of American States (OAS), Niermala Badrising, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council of the hemispheric institution, a position she will hold for the next three months. Upon assuming the role, Ambassador Badrising expressed the ...