GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government said Monday it had received the first shipment of 5,000 tonnes of fertiliser from Venezuela under a revised agreement between the two countries. Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy said the agreement would significantly boost the agricultur...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB), Dr. DeLisle Worrell says he is confident of an economic turnaround acknowledging that policy makers have ever since the onset of the global recession in 2008, have kept a stable economic platform from which to launch t...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Monday re-emphasised the importance of developing the island’s geothermal energy sector as the Independent Regulatory Commission (IRC) granted the island’s lone electricity supplier with two new 25 year licences. Public Works, Energy...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Grenada will host a three-day workshop outlining the benefits, implications and opportunities of an Economic Union of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The St. Lucia-based OECS Secretariat said that the October 9-11 event being conducted by the&nb...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICANS are an endangered species at the UN Secretariat housed in New York in the United States. Of the roughly 43,000 people employed there, only 136 are Jamaican. Of that number, only 28 fall within the professional category, with "very few" in senior-level posts. "Jamaican...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A country enters a currency crisis if its exchange rate depreciates by more than 25 per cent in a given year. So far this year, the Jamaican dollar has depreciated approximately 12 per cent, moving from J$93 to US$1 in January to roughly J$104 to US$1 at the moment. The last tim...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Director of Education Jacintha Pringle is hoping that the OECS Education Sector Strategy (OESS) to be launched here next week will include special provisions for children with special needs. Speaking at the official launch of a week of activities to mark Special Edu...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC -- Two leading agricultural organisations have launched a book on agriculture in a climate-change Caribbean environment, as a leading agriculturalist warned that global climate change is one of the most serious threats to sustainable development in the region. The publicatio...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - HEALTH Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has lauded the Pan American Health OrganiSation and the World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) for reaffirming their support to the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries as they work to confront health challenges. Addressing the 25th Meeting of...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Guyana’s Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has criticised the world’s rich countries over their failure to transfer to developing nations the technology needed to fast track their development. Ramsammy said their failure has led to developing countries...