(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Education, the Hon Betrand Joseph has joined the band of Caribbean Community Ministers who are calling for greater collaboration and pooling of resources within the Community. Addressing the o...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  St Kitts and Nevis are the undisputed champions of the CARICOM Regional Quiz Competition 2008. In a keenly contested finals held on 1st July 2008, in Antigua and Barbuda, the team, comprising Yunoka Flemming, Kalea Clarke, Latoya Clax...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) St Vincent and the Grenadines' Pamenos Ballentyne and Guyana's Alika Morgan have again emerged champions of the Annual Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 10K Road Race held on Sunday (29 June 2008) in Antigua and Barbuda. Ballentyne, who was mak...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Winston Williams, Minister of Sport, Antigua and Barbuda has called on the Caribbean Community to organise a Conference of Sport Ministers to discuss the future of Regional Sport Development within the Community Minister Williams, w...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty–Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opens in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda on Tuesday 1, July 2008, with an agenda replete with critical issues. CARICOM Head...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Deeper levels of functional cooperation in tourism, re-branding of the Region’s tourism product to reflect its diversity, and Transportation, will be prime areas of focus when Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) m...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) is to be launched at the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Antigua and Barbuda 1-4 July 2008. A decision was taken by the Heads of Govern...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Several business entities in Antigua and Barbuda have thrown their support behind the fourth staging of the Annual CARICOM Road Race set for Sunday 29th June 2008 in that same twin island. The annual 10K Run which has attracted local sponso...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) An outstanding Jamaican woman will be awarded the Caribbean Community’s Triennial Award for Women for her sterling contribution to national and regional development especially in the field of education and research. The award will be confer...

I am honoured to be here at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, an institution which stands as testament to the strong historical ties between the Caribbean and the African-American community. Named after a Black Caribbean man, the Schomburg Center has been the home of Caribbean and ...