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The CARICOM Secretariat and the University of the West Indies (UWI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at fostering greater co-operation between the two Institutions. CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington signed on behalf of the Secretariat and Principal of UWI's Mona Campus, P...

Plans for the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) are expected to be further advanced at a meeting in Jamaica on 6 December 1999. Attorney General of Barbados the Hon. David Simmons Q.C, chairman of the Preparatory Committee on the Caribbean Court of Justice (PrepCom) will preside ...

The Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has learnt with great sadness of the passing of Dr. Douglas Hall, Professor of History at the University of the West Indies. Professor Hall, a Jamaican, was a distinguished Historian at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies and many...

Jamaica will host, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Third Annual Telefood Concert on November 28, 1999. This unique event, born out of the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, is to mobilise solidarity for the fight against hunger and raise funds to support grassroots projects in...

The people of the Caribbean Community and the fraternity of cricket lovers everywhere have lost one of their heroes. Malcolm Denzil Marshall was one of the Ambassadors of Sport who with his colleagues in the great West Indies Cricket Team of the nineteen seventies and eighties inspired the deepest a...