The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is “deeply committed to the programme of activities” associated with the observance of the International Decade for People of African Descent, Her Excellency Rhonda King, Permanent Representative of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the Un...

Justice Desiree Bernard and Geoffrey Bell QC have been appointed as new Justices to the Court of Appeal. Making the announcement, Governor George Fergusson said: “I am delighted to see two such distinguished lawyers join the Court of Appeal. Bermuda is fortunate in being able to attract such ...

BRUSSELS, 12 December 2014. The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Council of Ministers met in Brussels from 9-12 December 2014 in its 100th Session since the inception of the ACP Group of States as an international organization in 1975, as enshrined in the Georgetown Agreement. Honourable Minist...

HAVANA, Cuba December 9, 2014 - Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has credited Cuba with assisting Jamaica to become a world leader in athletics, noting that the GC Foster College, which was a gift to Jamaica from Cuba in the 1970s, has been responsible for training many of Jamaica´s outsta...

HABANA, Republic of Cuba – 9th December 2014……….In what resident diplomats in the Republic of Cuba considered an unusually lengthy audience for a new Head of Government, Prime Minister the Hon. Gaston Browne and President of the Republic of Cuba, Raul Castro held frui...

The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS/EOM) in Dominica, led by the OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Adam Blackwell, who was designated by Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, congratulates the citizens of the Commonwealth of Dominica for e...

Representatives from Consumer Agencies in at least fourteen CARICOM Member States participated in a one-day meeting to agree on a mechanism to further advance consumer protection  within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The meeting held in Suriname on Tuesday, 2 December, 2014, di...

Leader of the re-elected Dominica Labour Party(DLP), Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit addressing the nation last night. Preliminary results gave the DLP 15 of the 21 seats at stake with the other six going to the United Workers Party (UWP) led by Lennox Linton.  In the last election in 2009, the DLP won...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec.7, 2014 - The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and other regional education stakeholders have been challenged to further restructure the curricula and tests for students to significantly enhance their ability to thoroughly analyze questions and problems, and come up with p...

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, DECEMBER 8TH 2014 (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas is among Caribbean leaders in Havana, Cuba for a summit between Cuba and the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Prime Minister Douglas, who left a political me...