The social, psychological and economic cost of crime and violence in the Region was too high, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said on Thursday. He was speaking at the opening ceremony for the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Human a...

The University of the West Indies will host a two-day symposium bringing together an interdisciplinary group of specialists to explore issues relevant to the control of the Zika virus in the Caribbean. The symposium takes place this Friday and Saturday – March 4 and 5 – at the Hilton Ho...

NASSAU, Bahamas, Mar. 4, CMC – History was made on Wednesday when Parliament passed four amendments to the constitution, removing the remaining vestiges of discrimination from the law books. Thirty-seven of the 38 legislators voted in favour of the bill. The other Parliamentarian – Hube...

Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Dr. Douglas Slater, has implored Directors of Youth across the Region not to disappoint the youth. He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Eighth Meeting of the Directors of Youth Affairs hosted at the ...

The Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP) is handing over the baton to the Renewable and Energy Efficiency Technical Assistance project in March 2016. The CREDP started in February 2003 and ends on March 31, 2016. CREDP was a Regional Cooperation Programme between the Government o...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 02, 2016 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy Prime Minister, Honourable Shawn Richards, and CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) Dennis McCall Jr. are in Guyana for a series of meetings that will help to shape the youth development agenda back home and across the Caribbean Com...

Next week, representatives from 14 Caribbean countries will come together in Belize City to take stock of key lessons learned from the hundred reform actions implemented through the Caribbean Growth Forum, and announce a Communique to move forward on their pro-growth agenda. Belize is proud to hos...

The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have sent a formal letter of complaint to Britain seeking reparation for slavery. The letter, which was written by Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, and sent to the British Foreign Office, calls on London to formally acknowledge the regio...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 01, 2016 (SKNIS): The Agricultural Sector in the Federation is vital for sustained economic growth, stated Jeanelle Kelly, Quarantine Officer at the Department of Agriculture, during a recent address to agricultural stakeholders.   Ms. Kelly noted that agriculture...

The connection of crime and violence to drugs, legal and illegal; the need for “restorative justice” and understanding the dynamics at the community level to ensure targeted interventions, formed part of the discussions at the Regional Forum on Youth Crime and Violence now underway in Ge...