I welcome you to this session of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) which is focussing on Education, one of the foundations of our Community’s future. The World Bank’s 2018 World Development Report submits that education delivers consistent returns, including in terms of income, as globally, there is a 9% increase in hourly […]
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By Elizabeth Morgan The General Council (GC) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the highest body outside of the Ministerial Conference, met October 15-16. This was the first opportunity to consider the US Presidential Memorandum on Reforming Developing Country Status in the WTO issued in July. Issues related to WTO reform, development status (access to […]
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(Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is calling for a focus on robust and extensive scientific findings on climate change as it prepares to participate in the 25th Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year. CARICOM Environment Ministers and climate […]
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(Caribbean Development Bank Press Release) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) have signed a new agreement to deliver better support for climate resilient projects across the region. The new agreement will help the EIB and CDB to improve project implementation and monitoring, leading to more efficient financing for a range […]
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(Barbados Government Information Service Press Release) The rest of the world has managed to surpass the Caribbean in sports simply because they have incorporated science into sports. Minister of Creative Economy, Culture and Sports, John King, shared this view at the launch of the Sports Science Society of the University of the West Indies (UWI) […]
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(Caribbean Development Bank Press Release) October 17, 2019, MIAMI, Florida – Leaders and experts are calling for more collaboration across the Caribbean to unlock the potential of the, noting that a regional approach can help overcome the inherent challenges of size and scale. The calls came at Blue Economy Caribbean 2019, held in Miami, Florida […]
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Over the past two decades, there has been much discussion surrounding the promotion and development of tourism in the Caribbean, the world’s most tourism dependent region. While there have been many visions, plans, papers written and philosophies espoused, there has been widespread acceptance that much improvement is needed to elevate tourism development in the region. […]
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More young people in the Region are being taught about business ownership. Representatives from the CARICOM Secretariat and consultants are currently in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Belize implementing an entrepreneurship workshop for youth. This initiative is the CARICOM Secretariat’s 10th European Development Fund (EDF) supported Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) programme. It began on […]
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As always it is a pleasure for me to be here in Trinidad and Tobago but even more so this evening given that it is an event dedicated to our Region’s Youth. I must congratulate Dr. Pemberton and her Planning Committee for having the vision to organise this first Caribbean Congress on Adolescent and Youth […]
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Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Hon Gaston Browne has emphasised that financial reparations were the best way for colonisers to make amends for the wrongs they had committed. The Prime Minister was speaking at the opening of a symposium titled “Western Banking, Colonialism and Reparations” at the Jolly Beach Hotel in Antigua and Barbuda on Thursday. The CARICOM […]
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