The Most Honourable Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller O.N., M.P. first became Jamaica’s seventh Prime Minister in March 2006 and was conferred with the Order of the Nation in May 2006. Prime Minister Simpson Miller’s ascension to Jamaica’s highest political office, came after ha...

Caribbean news. In just over a month – on 16th April 2015 – the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will mark the 10th anniversary of its inauguration.    The creation of the CCJ is arguably the single most important event in the history of the English-Speaking Cari...

On behalf of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), The Right Honourable Sir Dennis Byron, President of the CCJ, welcomed the Commonwealth of Dominica to the Court’s Appellate Jurisdiction at the official ceremony to celebrate the move by the Eastern Caribbean state. The Court P...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (SKNIS): The theme selected for this year’s Gender Affairs Annual Breakfast and Award ceremony held in celebration of International Women’s Day is ‘Make It Happen’. According to a press release from the Gender Affairs Department, March 8, whi...

A team of 31 immigration supervisors drawn from Guyana’s immigration ports including Georgetown, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Ogle Airport, Bartica and Moleson Creek, were Thursday sensitized about their roles and responsibilities particularly with respect to facilitating the free m...

President of the Caribbean Court of Justice Rt. Hon. Sir Dennis Byron and other Judges of the Court will attend the ceremony to mark the accession of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the Appellate Jurisdiction of the CCJ today, Friday 6 March 2015. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque...

CARICOM leaders last week endorsed the idea of the CARICOM Secretariat and Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) preparing a proposal for a Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit. The Unit would be located in Caribbean Export in Barbados, would be self-financing and repo...

Roseau, Dominica -The ceremony to mark Dominica’s accession to the appellate jurisdiction of theCaribbean Court of Justiceis set for Friday, March 6, 2015. The ceremony will begin from 10:00am and will be held at the State House Conference Centre. President of Dominica H.E. Charles A Sav...

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday received presentations by the two candidates proposed by the member states for the position of Assistant Secretary General – the current Permanent Representatives of Guyana, Bayney Karran, and of Belize, ...

Jamaica is slated to launch a $6 million climate change resilience project in the greater Kingston metropolitan area, the government announced this week. The project is called “Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in LAC.” The latter refe...