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...

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 stren...

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 C...

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...

Using the now famous Shanique Myrie versus Barbados case,  some 31 immigration supervisors drawn from Guyana’s immigration ports including the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Ogle Airport, Bartica and Moleson Creek, were Thursday last sensitized about their roles and responsibili...

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 a...

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...

On this International Women’s Day 2015, we salute the writer/singer of the official CARICOM Song  “Celebrating CARICOM” – Ms. Michele Henderson, a highly acclaimed recording artiste from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The CARICOM Song is the official, patriotic song...

This year marks significant milestones in the global development agenda, including the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the adoption of a new sustainable development agenda to replace the existing Millennium Development Goals.  There is growing consensus t...

The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, is the seventh and current Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She was sworn in as Prime Minister on May 26, 2010 and is the country’s first female Prime Minister. Persad-Bissessar is the political...