Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr the Honourable Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has extended congratulations to the West Indies cricket team on their test series victory against Bangladesh. Prime Minister Rowley praised the discipline, determination and grit of the Caribbean players, under the captaincy of Kraigg Brathwaite, to secure two […]

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) enters this New Year 2021 with renewed hope for emerging from the darkness of the past year. The promising light at the end of the tunnel provided by the vaccine for COVID-19 provides the possibility of relief from the health and socio-economic challenges posed by the pandemic. The Community has signed […]

Leader of the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic Dr Mohamed Irfan Ali was sworn in as Guyana’s ninth President on Sunday. The swearing-in brought an end to a protracted period of challenges to the results of the 2 March General and Regional elections.  It was done shortly after the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) declared Ali the President-elect […]

Twenty-seven airports in Latin America and the Caribbean have joined others around the world to actively engage in addressing their impact on climate change by reducing carbon emissions. 88 airports now actively engaged in addressing their impact on Climate Change Collective CO2 reduction of more than 320,000 tonnes (-4.9%) achieved in the past year 61 airports are […]

The work of one of the four founding fathers of CARICOM, Dr. Eric Williams, is currently being honoured during a symposium at the University of the West Indies (The UWI) in Trinidad and Tobago. The two-day Symposium tilted “Capitalism and Slavery – 75 Years Later” is happening at the Faculty of Education Auditorium, the UWI, St. Augustine […]

(UN News) Overly expensive insulin could be a thing of the past – and life-changing news – for millions of diabetics under a plan launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday to diversify production globally, just ahead of World Diabetes Day. Announcing the initiative in Geneva, the UN agency said that it had already […]

(CMC) – The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has designated the city of Port-of-Spain as a City of Music. The announcement was made on Tuesday by Port-of-Spain mayor,Joel Mar¬tinez. In mak­ing the an­nounce­ment, Mar­tinez said the Port-of-Spain four-year plan to ac­tion has been aligned with UN­ESCO Cre­ative Cities Net­work’s mis­sion. “If we […]