Bridgetown, BARBADOS, November 12, 2014.  Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency, Pamela Coke-Hamilton says private sector organizations across the Caribbean are in urgent need of support as they continue to mitigate the negative effects of the global recession that start...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 12, 2014 (SKNIS): How to effectively communicate during emergencies was the clear message that was sent by the World Health Organisation (WHO)/Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and received by representatives from 21 English and French-speaking Caribbean territo...

KINGSTON Jamaica  — Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers including Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade AJ Nicholson will meet with their Japanese counterpart on Friday for talks aimed at strengthening the relations between the 15-member regional groupi...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will be partnering with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (REETA) Project in hosting the Fourth Caribbean Sustainable Energy ...

ADOLESCENT pregnancy in the Caribbean could decline by 20 per cent between 2015 and 2019 if an initiative by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) succeeds. Last year, UNFPA and Caricom unveiled a strategic framework aimed at reducing the number of unwante...

New research shows how drugs in the Dominican Republican’s touristy areas present barriers to preventing HIV. The Caribbean has the second highest global HIV prevalence in the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, with HIV/AIDS as leading cause of death among people aged 20–59 years wit...

Which Caribbean countries have the highest level of gender equality? The World Economic Forum has released its latest Global Gender Gap Report, looking at how countries around the world fare when it comes to gender equality. The report examines a host of factors, including health and survival, e...

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad -- The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) has been supplying Caribbean farmers with quality hot pepper seeds for the past 20 years. Currently, four main varieties are produced by CARDI and supplied through its distributor, Caribbean Chemicals a...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 4, 2014 - Government will shortly be adopting the technology used by Red Stripe in its large-scale cassava production, so that an islandwide cassava industry can be sustained as the technology being being utilized is delivering the kind of yields that will make the industry e...

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in collaboration with Macmillan will launch CXC’s online commercial presence called the CXC Store at http://www.cxc-store.com on Friday 7 November during a concert in Jamaica. The launch will be held at Jamaica College auditorium starting at 10:00 am...