For many years, the residents of Barzey’s Village in Montserrat had just a small gravel road connecting them to schools, public transportation and jobs. Soil erosion and heavy rainfall made road conditions worse. As a result, residents didn’t have regular garbage pickups and when there ...

 UN Women launched its flagship report “Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights” which highlights how economies have failed to guarantee women’s empowerment and the full exercise of their economic and social rights, in rich count...

The fifty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean ended on Friday in the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic Information by ECLAC The country representatives that participated in the fifty-second meeting of the Presidi...

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque was on hand on Saturday to welcome a special flight with relief supplies for Dominica donated by members of the Guyana Private Sector Commission (PSC). Ambassador LaRocque was joined by Dominica’s National Security, Justice and Immigration &...

Financial stakeholders from the Caribbean region and further afield are presently attending the fourth edition of the  Caribbean Forum at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort which was organized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in collaboration with the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis u...

As part of the disaster response activities of the CARICOM Secretariat, the Energy Programme has provided four hundred Emergency LED Solar Lanterns to the Government of Dominica. The lanterns are powered through a builtin solar cell and are designed with backup battery and “hand cranking&rdqu...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will mount a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to monitor the general elections to be held in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday 7 September 2015. The Chief of Mission is Mr. Orrette Fisher, Director of Elections, Electoral Commission of Jamaica. He will be assisted by...

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Chile will host the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) next week with “an eye” on the forthcoming International Climate Conference in Paris. In a release on Wednesday, ...

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque today received a donation of items from member companies of the Guyana Private Sector Commission (PSC) to support the recovery effort in storm-damaged Dominica. The donation of a wide range of medical supplies, generators, cleaning items and cash ...

The CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) Corps today launched an “I am CARICOM” drive to raise “much needed financial assistance for storm-affected Dominica”. “This drive has been named ‘I AM CARICOM’ as we declare as one single Caribbean Community to be each o...