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CDB considering appropriate housing solutions for low lower-middle income owners

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 9, CMC - The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it is now revising its “Housing Sector Policy and Strategy’ so as to better assist regional countries deal with their housing problems, particularly for low and lower middle-income segments of the population.

The CDB said that recent studies suggest that the housing deficit in Latin America and the Caribbean stands at between 42 and 51 million units in a region that is estimated to grow to 160 million households by 2020. 

Partnership Between Businesses in the Caribbean and EU to be Bolstered by the 3rd CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum

The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) will host its third CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum, scheduled to take place on April 15 – 16 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The conference, which is organised in collaboration with the ACP Business Climate facility (BizClim), seeks to enhance partnerships between Caribbean businesses and those in Europe, enable public-private dialogue, and support the business climate reform agenda in the Caribbean.

Mobile technology a lever for women’s empowerment

PARIS – Providing women with greater access to mobile technology could increase literacy, advance development and open up much-needed educational and employment opportunities, according to experts at the fourth United Nations’ Mobile Learning Week conference here.

 

“Mobile technology can offer learning where there are no books, no classrooms, even no teachers. This is especially important for women and girls who drop out of school and need second chances,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women.

Caribbean Media Group Helps Trinidad School

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (March 6, 2015) - Students with learning disabilities in Trinidad recently received a helping hand from the Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) when the US-based nonprofit organization donated sporting equipment to Eshe's Learning Centre in Woodbrook. 

Basketballs, soccer balls and other sporting equipment presented by CMEx President Bevan Springer were gratefully received by Kitts Cadette, principal of the alternative school for children with learning disabilities, developmental delays and mild cognitive limitations.

 

OAS Member States Receive Reports on the Negotiations for a Binding Global Agreement on Climate Change

The Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS) today received in an special joint session two reports on the results of the meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima in December (COP 20), and the status of the negotiations for the 2015 edition of the meeting (COP 21), to be held in Paris later this year.

Opinion: Bridging the gap – SDG Fund paving way for Post-2015 Agenda

UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – The countdown has begun to September’s Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with world leaders discussing the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the United Nations Open Working Group.

The post-2015 development agenda will focus primarily on strengthening opportunities to reduce poverty and marginalisation in ways that are sustainable from an economic, social and environmental standpoint.

How shall the world set the measure for all subsequent work?

Regional Labour and Employers Organisations sign social dialogue project with ILO

A 1.7 million Euro (USD 2 million) Project, signed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) with funding from the European Union in December 2014, was formally launched with the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation (CEC) and the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) at last week’s 9th Caribbean Ministers of Labour Meeting in Nassau, Bahamas.

Re-elected WICB President to meet Grenada PM

A meeting with Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell on cricket governance is among the first items of business for re-elected President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Mr. Dave Cameron.

Jamaican Cameron defeated challenger, former Test cricketer Barbadian Joel Garner by 8 votes to 4 in elections during the WICB’s Annual General Meeting at the Jamaica Pegasus, on Saturday 7 March 2015. His running mate, Emmanuel  Nanton of Dominica and the Windward Islands was also returned 8 votes to 4 over Trinidadian Baldath Mahabir.

Women leaders call for mainstreaming gender equality in Post-2015 Agenda

SANTIAGO, Mar 3 2015 (IPS) - Women leaders from every continent, brought together by U.N. Women and the Chilean government, demanded that gender equality be a cross-cutting target in the post-2015 development agenda. Only that way, they say, can the enormous inequality gap that still affects women and children around the world be closed.

Opinion: It’s time to step it up for gender equality

UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - If we look at the headlines or the latest horrifying YouTube clip, Mar. 8 – International Women’s Day – may seem a bad time to celebrate equality for women.

 But alongside the stories of extraordinary atrocity and everyday violence lies another reality, one where more girls are in school and more are earning qualifications than ever before; where maternal mortality is at an all-time low; where more women are in leadership positions, and where women are increasingly standing up, speaking out and demanding action.

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