Preparations for hosting the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 6-12 October, 2014, in Paramaribo, Suriname, are well advanced, according to organisers of the event. Suriname, on 15 August, launched the 13th edition of the CWA with the introduction of the event’s logo as well as the logo for...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Efforts continue to intensify to build the capacity of National Statistics Offices, and provide high quality statistics in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The latest step in this regard is a consultancy, funded by the European Union (E...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Key decision-makers of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) met this week for a series of strategic meetings vital to the region’s continued response to HIV. Notable achievements of the meetings were the endo...

Sunday 21 September 2014 is the day that the Caribbean joins the rest of the world in observing International Day of Peace.  The Region, unfortunately, as with the rest of the world, is confronted with a wide range of threats to peace and security, including widespread violence, and violence an...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) What was described as a “new era” of diplomatic relations between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and El Salvador began Friday (19 September) when Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General accredited a new envo...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A series of high-level meetings of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, next week. On Monday, 22 September, members of the Priority Areas Coordinating Committee (...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies (CANTA) will formally launch the CARICOM Regional TVET Strategy for Workforce Development and Economic Competitiveness on Monday, September 22, 2014, at the Hilton Hotel, Trinidad and Tobago. With funding...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is formalizing recommendations to deal with any possible incidence of the Ebola virus and is ramping up efforts to respond to the Chikungunya epidemic. On Friday, 12 September, Chi...

The celebration of Caribbean Wellness Day continually reminds us of that historic moment when our Heads of Government pioneered that significant policy initiative known as the Declaration of Port-of-Spain on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).  On the basis of scientific facts they raised their v...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Headquarters of the Caribbean Community, the CARICOM Secretariat on Monday commenced  a week of activities to commemorate Caribbean Wellness Day (CWD) 2014  and to sustain the ‘wellness revolution...