The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), comprised of ministers responsible for agriculture from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has confirmed the Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy as a final policy document for the Community. The Caribbean Community Common Fisheri...

Caribbean news. Bridgetown, BARBADOS, October 13, 2014.  The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has once again partnered with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to support the development of the SERVICES Go Global programme – an inst...

News Americas, MIAMI, FL, Weds. Oct. 15, 2014: The first death in the Caribbean of the 2014 hurricane season was recorded in St. Maarten Tuesday as Hurricane Gonzalo, now a category three storm, continued its path towards Bermuda. Gonzalo was blamed for the death of an as yet unidentified elderly ...

Inter-regional cooperation for agricultural and rural development has moved a step closer with the announcement that the Pacific region is planning to hold a regional week of agriculture in 2015. The event has been inspired by the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA), whose 13th edition was held in P...

Act now and avert a global public health emergency. That, in essence, was the urgent demand of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guyana, Barbados and their Caribbean neighbors and the plea was made at the United Nations in New York at a time when the U.S. was seeking to tame rising domestic ...

And the winner is… Node420, from Jamaica. The team’s ICT application, also called Node420, offers real-time weather analysis and automatic yield forecasts for farmers. The AgriHack Talent Caribbean contest, organised by CTA and partners, came to a close during the 13th Caribbean Week ...

THE late Frederick Lloyd Cozier etched his name in the history of the Caribbean Community as the first Head of a Caribbean Regional Secretariat.The Barbadian native in 1968 became Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Caribbean Regional Secretariat (CCRS) with a mandate to create an institution that...

Both the public and private sectors must play their roles in order for the Region’s agricultural sector to achieve its full potential, Ambassador Dr. Manorma Soeknandan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said Wednesday. The Deputy Secretary-General made the point ...

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct 8, CMC – The Bahamas government Wednesday said it has completed the preparation of a new Petroleum Act and a suite of regulations designed to guide and govern oil exploration in country.   Environment and Housing Minister Kenred M.A. Dorsett said the legislation a...

by Panoscope- Panos Caribbean Paramaribo, Suriname. October 8, 2014. Food and Agriculture Organisation expert, Dr John R Deep Ford, is urging increased attention, investment and policy interventions to improve the economic capacity of family farmers in the Caribbean who he says have largely been n...