Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, June 17, 2016.  The process of cultivating a buoyant and sustainable cultural and creative economy within the Caribbean is a step closer with the development of a business plan to establish the Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit (CCIMU). At the 26th Interces...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The Organization of American States (OAS), several leading companies in the field of information and communications technologies (ICTs), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and a group of universities from across the region on Tue...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Jun 14, CMC – The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) has approved a Declaration of Support for Belize and Guatemala in their ongoing efforts to find a peaceful solution to their border dispute. While no details of the declaration h...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 13, 2016 (SKNIS): The Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM, embarked upon a training exercise on competition law and policy on June 13.   Director of Trade/Research in ...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 13, 2016 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and recently-appointed Chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, has hailed the organization on its 35th anniversary as “as a beacon on the hill to the ...

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 12th, 2016 (PRESS SEC) – Thirty-five years ago this week, the Treaty of Basseterre was signed on June 18th, 1981, in the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis, establishing the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The original signatories were Antigua and...

The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has been awarded the 2016 Energy Globe for a project submitted on Belize. CCCCC won from over 1,500 projects submitted from 170 countries and according to a statement issued here, the Energy Globe Award is a prestigious environmenta...

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 8 June 2016—UNAIDS welcomes the new goals, targets and commitments of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. Countries have agreed to a historic and urgent agenda to accelerate efforts towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The Politi...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 08, 2016 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and CARICOM Lead Head with responsibility for Human Resources, Health and HIV/AIDS, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, has addressed the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS at the U.N. H...

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 8, CMC – The United Nations Wednesday adopted a progressive, new and actionable Political Declaration on Ending AIDS which includes a set of specific, time-bound targets that must be reached by 2020 to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 within the framework of the Sustainable De...