Shantal Munro-Knight, Executive Director of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), has stressed the need for domestic workers and artisans to have their rights observed under the CSME Free Movement regime. She told The Barbados Advocate yesterday after a press conference at the Blue Horizo...

ROSEAU, Dominica -- Dominican service providers and media have been challenged to take example from the several service providers moving freely within the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) providing services to governments, regional and international NGOs and the private sector.  Addressing a CSME m...

THE Barbados-based CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has approved an additional EC$2,025,000/US$750,000 loan for the new Argyle International Airport (AIA) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The funding will be used to purchase equipment to establish a 218 kVa solar energy farm tha...

ANDROS, The Bahamas – In 2014 ten million people were engaged to vote for fifteen projects from around the world supporting conservation projects to win one of the three coveted European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) grants. This year the only project short listed from the Caribbean ...

We, women of the Caribbean Regional Network of Organizations and our allies, form part of a global movement dedicated to ensuring that our Governments and other actors respect, protect and guarantee the full enjoyment of the human rights of all women and girls. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of ...

WASHINGTON, CMC – President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, in his message to mark International Women’s Day, has called for gender equality in the Caribbean and Latin America. “On this International Women's Day, we reaffirm our commitment to...

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...

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 p...

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.   “M...

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, socc...