Food Security is a top priority! Plans for a regional virtual marketplace continue to be a key priority for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.  The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in the region’s traditional food systems, presenting a unique opportunity to move towards greater sustainability and food and nutrition security.  A common regional market will […]

(Antigua Newsroom) -The annual evaluation of Grade Six students, along with the Grades Two and Four Assessments, has been cancelled. Ministry of Education officials are now examining ways in which to proceed during the new school year, and at the same time addressing promotions and the National Grade Six Assessment. Instead the Grade Six Profile […]

LOOP NEWS– St Lucia’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belmar-George has announced that all of the island’s COVID-19 patients have now recovered. “As of April 22, 2020, Saint Lucia has a total of 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19. “To date, all of the positive cases of COVID-19 in Saint Lucia have recovered, with the remaining […]

As governments across the Caribbean implement responses to prevent, , mitigate, and manage the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and its consequences, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the United Nations system and key regional organizations, has embarked on a careful assessment […]

The COVID 19 Pandemic has been characterized by many as the unseen enemy moving swiftly across the globe. To date, at the international level, it has affected approximately 1.5 billion students with run on impacts for teachers and caregivers. Within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) it has disrupted the education and careers of over five million […]

Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agreed on a way forward in the Community’s battle against the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Special Emergency Meeting on Wednesday via video conference. The Leaders received presentations from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and Archbishop […]

Fellow citizens and residents of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU): I address you at a time of great adversity and anxiety for our region and our world. An Unprecedented Moment This moment is like no other. We have to go back more than 100 years to the 1918 Spanish flu to begin to comprehend […]