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Saluting our Women – Trinidad and Tobago PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, is the seventh and current Prime Minister
CDB Statement on International Women’s Day
This year marks significant milestones in the global development agenda, including the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the adoption of a new sustainable deve
Saluting CARICOM Song Writer/Singer
On this International Women’s Day 2015, we salute the writer/singer of the official CARICOM Song “Celebrating CARICOM” – Ms.
Opinion: It’s time to step it up for gender equality
UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - If we look at the headlines or the latest horrifying YouTube clip, Mar. 8 – International Women’s Day – may seem a bad time to celebrate equality for women.
Women leaders call for mainstreaming gender equality in Post-2015 Agenda
SANTIAGO, Mar 3 2015 (IPS) - Women leaders from every continent, brought together by U.N.
Re-elected WICB President to meet Grenada PM
A meeting with Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell on cricket governance is among the first items of business for re-elected President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Mr.
Regional Labour and Employers Organisations sign social dialogue project with ILO
A 1.7 million Euro (USD 2 million) Project, signed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) with funding from the European Union in December 2014, was formally launched with the Caribbean Emp
Opinion: Bridging the gap – SDG Fund paving way for Post-2015 Agenda
UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – The countdown has begun to September’s Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with world leaders discussing the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the United
OAS Member States Receive Reports on the Negotiations for a Binding Global Agreement on Climate Change
The Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS) today received in an special joint session two reports on the resul
Caribbean Media Group Helps Trinidad School
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (March 6, 2015) - Students with learning disabilities in Trinidad recently received a helping hand from the Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) when the US-based nonprofit organ
Mobile technology a lever for women’s empowerment
PARIS – Providing women with greater access to mobile technology could increase literacy, advance development and open up much-needed educational and employment opportunities, according to exp
Partnership Between Businesses in the Caribbean and EU to be Bolstered by the 3rd CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) will host its third CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum, scheduled to take place on April 15 – 16 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
CDB considering appropriate housing solutions for low lower-middle income owners
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 9, CMC - The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it is now revising its “Housing Sector Policy and Strategy’ so as to better assist regional countries dea
IDB calls for gender equality in the Caribbean
WASHINGTON, CMC – President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, in his message to mark International Women’s Day, has called for gender equality in the Caribbean and
Statement of Caribbean women, women’s organizations and other civil society organizations on the occasion of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 59, Beijing + 20
We, women of the Caribbean Regional Network of Organizations and our allies, form part of a global movement dedicated to ensuring that our Governments and other actors respect, protect and guarante
Andros mangrove restoration project shortlisted to win exclusive European grant
ANDROS, The Bahamas – In 2014 ten million people were engaged to vote for fifteen projects from around the world supporting conservation projects to win one of the three coveted European Outdoor Co
Final Declaration issued by the Meeting of The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba and of the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), 17 September 2010, Havana, Cuba
THE Barbados-based CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has approved an additional EC$2,025,000/US$750,000 loan for the new Argyle International Airport (AIA) in St.
Dominican economist outlines four-step approach to access CSM opportunities
ROSEAU, Dominica -- Dominican service providers and media have been challenged to take example from the several service providers moving freely within the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) providing serv
Time to open the doors for domestic workers, artisans
Shantal Munro-Knight, Executive Director of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), has stressed the need for domestic workers and artisans to have their rights observed under the CSME Free
Jamaica highly vulnerable to climate change
TECHNICAL officer in the government's Climate Change Division, Dr Orville Grey, says that Jamaica and other small island developing states are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.