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Barbados to establish regional energy centre
Barbados is to establish a Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Energy Minister Darcy Boyce has said.
Regional meeting on Rio Summit declaration
Caribbean delegates ended a two-day meeting in St Lucia on Wednesday identifying opportunities for collective action towards the full implementation of measures contained in
Regional Forum focuses on effects of climate change on agriculture
The first ever Caribbean Forum on Climate-Smart Agriculture has ended here with the organizers saying it provided an opportunity to promote and support options for adapting the Caribbean agricultur
Empowering Patients through Laboratory, Clinical and Community Support - CCAS HIV/AIDS…
August 25th, 2015 -- “The Holistic Approach to HIV Care in the Caribbean: Empowering Patients through Laboratory, Clinical and Community Support” is the theme of a five-day regional workshop t
CARICOM SG and Haitian Foreign Minister call for greater international involvement in Haiti DR…
Haiti’s Foreign Minister the Honourable Lener Renaud and Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque agreed on the need for greater involvement by the internati
New Vistas For The Caribbean Agricultural Research And Development Institute (CARDI)
Chairperson, Honourable Suresh Algoe Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Fisheries, Chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee and Members of said Committee, President of the Car
Antigua Opens Region’s Most Modern Airport Terminal
first airport terminal in CARICOM with jet bridges.
CDB advances climate change and disaster risk management of member countries
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agenda for reducing risks and building resilience in the region got a much-needed boost recently.
CARIFESTA XII opens with a bang despite rain
The twelfth edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA XII) opened last night with a plethora of exciting performances, sp
Barbados Minister of Culture to represent CARICOM Chair at CARIFESTA – BGIS
Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley, will lead a delegation to participate in the 12th edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts, CARIFESTA, to be hosted in Haiti later this mont
CDB Finances Training for Caribbean Water Sector Professionals
Senior Water Sector professionals from across the Caribbean will meet on August 23 – 24 to identify better ways of planning for the impact of climate change on the region’s water supply and systems
Barbados and St. Vincent to sign maritime treaty
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug 20, CMC – Barbados and St.
UNICEF launches regional media project to influence reporting on children rights issues
CMC – A regional project aimed at improving the image of children through media reporting has been launched in Barbados with a senior United Nations official noting that the way the media “represen
Our sargassum test demands urgent action
Some of the region’s leading experts and researchers were today huddled at the University of the West Indies with one sole purpose: to find a coordinated, practical, regional response to the unwelc
Caribbean broadcasting icons inducted into Hall of Fame
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tuesday August 18, 2015 – Two Caribbean broadcasting icons were yesterday inducted into the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) Hall of Fame.
Millions of dollars, massive manpower needed to tackle Sargassum seaweed
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday August 18, 2015 – It would take at least US$120 million and more than 100,000 people to clean up the Sargassum seaweed that has created “an international crisis”
CDN Special Feature: THE SARGASSUM PHENOMENON IN THE CARIBBEAN
A SPECIAL (CDN) FEATURE
BY: RICARDO BLACKMAN (CDN) BARBADOS.
Following IICA training… Honey gets sweeter for local bee-keepers
LOCAL beekeepers who are members of the Guyana Apicultural Society (GAS) have said that a bee-keeping training programme organised for them by the Inter American Institute for Cooperation in A
CARICOM/Spain Reducing Youth on Youth Violence Project strengthens community partnership
Informed minds; proud faces and without doubt hearts too; all 104 of them between the ages of 5 to 18 years with their thirty-four parents of mostly mothers, indeed no less



















