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 backg...

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 as...

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 Carib...

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, Hond...

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 Revo...

Belize’s focal point Ministry for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy has forged ahead with workplace sessions on the Single Market in 2015, scoring increasing awareness, interest and participation since the series kicked off in December. Since December 2014 when the CSME Information F...

The University of the West Indies in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The United Nations in Trinidad and Tobago is hosting a ‘Forum on The Future of the Caribbean: Disruptive thinking. Bold action. Practical outcomes’. The Forum will be held from 5-7 May in Trinidad ...

THE CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) announced today that after more than six years with the organisation, CEO Ambassador Lorne McDonnough indicated to the Board that for personal reasons he did not wish to renew his contract past the end of the CDF’s First Funding Cycle on June 30, 2015. McDon...

‘Krik Krak One’ Apps, a series of Interactive Ebooks and apps that use traditional Caribbean stories to teach preschoolers about Science,Maths, and Technology will soon be introduced in the Caribbean. Adventure and humour are cleverly meshed with environmental and soc...

High ranking officials from several Caribbean countries will assemble in Grenada next Monday March 16, 2015 to participate in the sixth Regional Steering Committee (RSC) meeting of the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme (CARCIP). During this meeting, the RSC is expected to p...