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PM Browne calls for Establishment of Group of Leaders to broker dialogue between Venezuela and the USA

Statement by the Hon Gaston Browne MP Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda at Meeting of ALBA Leaders in Caracas, Venezuela Tuesday 17th March 2015

My government is troubled by the escalation of antagonism between two very important member states of our Hemisphere – Venezuela and the United States of America.
We are concerned that the government of the United States of America has unilaterally decided that there are human rights violations in Venezuela that merit the application of sanctions.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Announces State Visit By United States President Barack Obama

The Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller is pleased to announce that His Excellency Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, will pay a State Visit to Jamaica on 9th April 2015.

President Obama and Prime Minister Simpson Miller will hold bilateral discussions on a range of issues of mutual interest.

Grenada revolution holds lessons for Caribbean development – PM Skerrit

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Mar 17, (CMC) – Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says the 1979 Grenada revolution that brought Maurice Bishop to power marked the most decisive fracture in the Anglophone Caribbean with the political and constitutional status quo.

Kenny Anthony: CARICOM Stalled In Crossroad Of Indecision

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 11, 2015 (AMG) —While the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) prepares to observe its 42nd year of existence, St. Lucian Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny Anthony, has expressed what he calls an increasing view that the development of the region is being held hostage by member countries not willing to commit.

Vybzing Issues Spoken Word Challenge To St. Kitts And Nevis’ Youth

Young adults across St. Kitts and Nevis are being encouraged to put pen to paper and share their vision for youth in the creative industry in this year’s VYBZING Spoken Word Challenge hosted by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Ancient DNA reveals origins of Caribbean slaves

CALIFORNIA, United States, Monday March 16, 2015 – In 2010, the skeletons of three African-born slaves who had died more than 300 years before were unearthed during a construction project in Philipsburg, St Martin.

No written records were available, and the names and precise ethnic backgrounds of the long-dead Africans remained a mystery.

At the time of the discovery, scientists could deduce from the skeletons that the three people were between 25 and 40 years old when they died in the late 1600s.

FAO promoting cassava root as a food crop in Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 15, 2015—The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean is intensifying its promotion of the cassava root as a food crop in the region.

The FAO is using opportunities such as the recent Barbados Agrofest to dispel myths associated with the cassava, and to promote its wide-ranging health benefits and diversity in food use.

Int’l Year of Evaluation 2015: Message to Caribbeans

Caribbean news. It is our pleasure to send this message to the Caribbean Evaluators International at the historical moment of celebrating International Year of Evaluation in the first regional evaluation conference. CEI as a new regional VOPE made a great progress in the recent past and helped Caribbeans to successfully join the EvalYear initiative.

Year 2015 was declared as the International Year of Evaluation at the Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities organized in São Paulo, Brazil, 29 Sep-2 Oct 2013.

“Garifuna, a Nation Displaced” – Historic Summit held in SVG

St. Vincent and the Grenadines played host to the First International Garifuna Summit, from 8 -15 March 2015 under the theme “The Garifuna, a Nation Displaced – Cultural Rights, Economic Survival and Reparations”
National delegations participated from Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the USA. Scholars and practitioners of the Garifuna Heritage and Culture were part of the week-long event.

PM Skerrit to deliver foreign policy lecture in Grenada

Roseau, Dominica — Prime Minister of Dominica, the Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit, will on Monday, be the keynote speaker at a lecture in Grenada that will focus, in part, on foreign policy.

The event, dubbed the “Inaugural March 13th Lecture”, is being organized by the Grenada Revolution Memorial Foundation Inc. (GREMFO) and Groundation Grenada.

Skerrit will speak on the topic: “The Grenada Revolution, Foreign Policy and Development of Small Island States in the Present International Environment”.

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