As a recent World Bank diagnostic report called attention to a severe skills gap challenge across 12 Caribbean countries, Caribbean Employment Services Inc. CEO Joseph Boll reminded employers that they can turn to professional resources if they are having challenges with finding and hiring suitable talent. Caribbean Employment Services Inc. is a market-leading digital talent […]

Following an admission by Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo that the Ali administration intends to hire more women for its ongoing part-time jobs initiative, a regional recruitment service is commending the move. “This is exactly what international agencies like the IDB have been calling for, so it’s great to see that it’s being taken seriously […]

Labour inclusion policies, in combination with productive development and social protection policies, are key to reducing inequalities and the high degree of informality seen in Latin American and Caribbean countries, according to the authorities, scholars and international officials speaking at the inauguration of a three-day event that is being held at the main headquarters of […]

The Government of Grenada is actively engaged in developing its seamoss industry to reach its potential through a collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aimed at strengthening the value chain for seamoss and expanding access to regional and global markets. On 22 June 2023, a Stakeholder Validation Workshop was convened […]

(USA Today)- The five people aboard the submersible that had been missing for days were killed when the small vessel carrying them to the Titanic wreckage site had a “catastrophic implosion,” the Coast Guard said Thursday afternoon. Members of a massive international search effort found a debris field in the general area of the Titanic earlier in […]

(White House)-Vice President Kamala Harris and Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas will host the U.S-Caribbean Leaders Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas on June 8, 2023. This meeting will build on the Vice President’s previous meetings with Caribbean leaders in April 2022, at the June 2022 Summit of the Americas in […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the National Congress of Chile, and the Government of Chile, with support from the European Commission, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) and the Parliamentary Front against Hunger of Latin America and the […]