Region to get new programme to aid COVID-era learning loss recovery

A new regional programme to help students recover the learning losses of the COVID-19 era will be presented to the public in a virtual town hall session this Thursday, 18 November. The Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme for Caribbean Schools was developed through collaboration by the Caribb...
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Caribbean leaders make case for reparations at U.N.

UNITED NATIONS -- There are no shortages of challenges facing sun-soaked Caribbean countries — burgeoning unemployment, high crime, a chronic health crisis. But for almost every Caribbean leader who took the podium at the world’s leading global forum in New York last week, one issue cam...
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Vote for Merkel Seen as Victory for Austerity

BRUSSELS — As Angela Merkel savored the results of Germany’s national elections, newspapers on the left and right in Greece on Monday gave the same mournful assessment of what the result means beyond German borders. “Victory for the Queen of Austerity,” declared the front pag...
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Unions urged to establish information system within OECS

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), David Messiah is calling on trade unions within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to help establish a labour market information system for the economic union of the sub-region. Messiah told the 17th ...
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OECS countries sharpening trade negotiation skills

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Trade officials from the sub-regional organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have started a weeklong workshop aimed at enhancing their capacity to formulate effective trade policies and boost participation in regional and international trade negotiations. Th...
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