UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) today announced USD 7.26 million in grants to 24 innovative programmes across the globe to boost women’s economic empowerment and political leadership and participation. The high-impact programmes designed by women-led civil society organizations...

St. Kitts and Nevis joined the rest of the region observing Caricom-Cuba day on December 8, which marked 43 years of strong ties and friendship and cooperation between Caricom and Cuba. St. Kitts-Nevis Foreign Minister Hon. Mark Brantley says Cuba now plays a fundamental role in the Caribbean regio...

Fresh produce markets in the Caribbean should ideally be a space for sellers, buyers and visitors, including tourists, to ‘circulate’. There would be no front and no back in the new stylish circular, domed-roof model agricultural market. That’s the vision recommended in an ‘...

Following the acceptance of the Country Strategy Paper developed by Caribbean Development Bank, the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands has moved quickly to work with the Bank to improve its economy and access technical assistance for transportation.  Both a macroeconomic policy based ...

An historic agreement to combat climate change and unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future was agreed by 195 nations in Paris today. The Paris Agreement for the first time brings all nations into a common cause based on their historic, current and futur...

Bridgetown, Barbados, (CDEMA) – Jeremy MacArthur Collymore received the highest award of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) at the Closing Ceremony, Awards and Gala Dinner of the 9th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management held on T...

Following a successful Caribbean Investment Summit in London during October, the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) took the Summit to Mexico bringing several of the regions investment projects to the attentio...

Public procurement practitioners and policy-makers in Trinidad and Tobago will enhance their expertise in public procurement at a five-day CARIFORUM/EU training course, scheduled for 14-18 December, 2015 in Port-of-Spain. An output of the 10th EDF funded CARIFORUM/EU Capacity-Building Project, the ...

Please see video of CARICOM Secretary-General’s address to the High Level Segment of COP 21 at this link: http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop21/events/2015-12-08-15-00-conference-of-the-parties-cop-9th-meeting-conference-of-the-parties-serving-as-the-meeting-of-the-parties-to-the-kyoto-protoco...

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe ...