Redouble efforts and focus on the “critical policy intervention” of Deposit Insurance, CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, Mr. Joseph Cox, said Monday.  CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, Mr. Joseph Cox He was at...

For the past 14 years, the Animae Caribe Festival has been a project in research and development. What the annual animation festival has identified is a gap between education, training, learning, art and actual production. “The intention is to fill that gap,” said Camille Selvon Abrahams...

The CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) to Haiti has issued its Immediate Post-Election Statement in which it highlighted areas that could lead to “undesirable sequels” if not corrected. Those areas included anomalies pertaining to voting norms, varying ...

Regional statisticians and stakeholders in the sector are meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados, this week on the heels of the observances earlier this month of Caribbean Statistics Day and World Statistics Day, both celebrated under the theme ‘Better Data, Better Lives’. The Barbados meeting...

The Region’s largest animation and digital media festival, Animae Caribe, is staging its 14th edition of the festival from 27 – 31 October, 2015, in Trinidad and Tobago. At this year’s event, Animae Caribe is recording significant progress in terms of Regional representation with ...

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is forecasting a five to six per cent growth in tourist arrivals for the region in 2015. The news comes as the region outpaces all other major regions globally, with record numbers for the first six months of 2015. "For the first six months the Caribbean we...

Costa Rica has committed to finding common ground with the Caribbean Community on global climate change positions. Costa Rica’s first Ambassador to CARICOM, Ms. Lydia Peralta noted  CARICOM-Costa Rica’s shared climate change concerns and interests as she presented her credentials t...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will mount an Election Observation Mission in Haiti for the first round of the Presidential Elections and the second round of the Legislative Elections which will take place on 25 October 2015.   The fielding of this Mission comes at the request of the Govern...

In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados. The Boot Camps are part of the US$1.2 m...

MIAMI, FLORIDA October 20, 2015 – More funding has been put in place to facilitate the growth of the renewable energy sector in the Eastern Caribbean.             The Sustainable Energy Facility for the Eastern Caribbean; a  USD 71.5 ...