Surprised silence on rape cases

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - UNLESS mistaken, I sense a general lack of any public response from national or regional women organisations, as well as from women cabinet ministers and women in the legal profession within our Caribbean Community on two very disturbing media reported cases involving the h...
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FIVE BROAD AREAS FOR CARICOM CUBA TALKS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday 8 December, CARICOM-Cuba Day. All independent Member States of the Community will be represented with ten at the level...
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Gatekeeper of the Web

Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean have been the centre of international attention since news broke that Trinidad’s technology guru, Bevil Wooding, was one of only seven persons from across the globe specially selected to hold keys to the internet. These seven gatekeepers, called Trusted ...
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CARICOM INVITATIONAL GAMES SET FOR TRINIDAD 2009

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has adopted a recommendation by the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) for the quadrennial staging of what will be ...
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHRONIC DISEASES SET FOR THE CARIBBEAN

Washington, September 14, 2007 (PAHO) – A major new campaign to fight chronic disease in the Caribbean is getting underway in an effort to stem “the worst epidemic of chronic diseases like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease in the Americas,” wit...
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All set for Launch of CARIFESTA Month in Trinidad and Tobago

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) All is set for the launch of Caribbean Festival of Arts, CARIFESTA Month on 1 September 2006 in thirteen administrative districts of Trinidad and two administrative districts in Tobago. This exciting national initiative will capture 54 vill...
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NEW CARIFESTA MODEL LAUNCHED IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Under the theme Celebrating our People: Contesting the World Stage, a new model for the staging of the Ninth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA 1X) was unveiled on Monday 12 June in Trinidad and Tobago, host country of the largest cultur...
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