The Ministerial Council overseeing the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) agreed to sharpen the focus of CRFM to improve the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture in the region. The Council held its sixth meeting on 15 June 2012, in Nassau, The Bahamas, to discuss the development o...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The 39th Special  meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED),  slated for Georgetown, Guyana on Friday, will provide the last ministerial platform for environment and sustainable deve...

SURINAME: Professor Gregory Rusland, Minister of Natural Resources, The CARICOM Secretariat has to look for the major expertise within the region, and not try to re-invent the wheel, but try to make use of the expertise that exists in Suriname, in Trinidad and other areas of the region. Try also to...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Job creation and strengthening the capacity of the Haitian Government were the top two priorities laid out to the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) during its two-day mission to Haiti. Both the President and P...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Last week Thursday, Audrian Augier, co-Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries, told a meeting of youth, culture and sport ministers that the Caribbean Region had failed ...

In 2011, an edutainment project was undertaken by the CARICOM Secretariat with support from UN Women, which brought together Caribbean Artists from Belize, Guyana and Suriname in a three-day workshop in Suriname to use their creativity in the production of public campaign material on gender based vi...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts & Nevis (Dec. 14, 2011) -- Defense and security leaders from 17 nations completed a two-day Caribbean region security conference here today where they discussed proposals and cooperative solutions to counter transnational crime, illicit trafficking and support to humanitari...

SUGAR PRODUCED from the 2010-2011 sugar cane crop was 139,594 tonnes, an increase over the 122,104 tonnes produced in the 2009-2010 crop. The amount represents a turnaround of a downward trend in sugar production since 2007 when the industry produced 164,387 tonnes of sugar. The total represents t...

As Jamaica seeks to slash high import food bills, the country and its farmers are reaping success with greenhouse technology....

THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) yesterday joined the agricultural sector in expressing concern regarding the proposed reduction in the Common External Tariff (CET). "If duties are reduced, this will threaten the existence of several locally manufactured products, which will have i...