Should Jamaica remain in Caribbean single market?
By Bert Wilkinson From Amsterdam News New York The issue was not a major discussion item at the just concluded Caribbean Community leaders summit in Haiti, but a proposal by a review commission for Jamaica to leave the regional single…
CARICOM maintains ‘Non-Intervention, Non-Interference’ policy on Venezuela
Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley, Haiti’s President and Current Chair of the Caribbean Community, Jovenel Moise, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and…
Bermuda hosting Caribbean nursing meeting
Hamilton, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) More than two dozen nursing professionals from the Caribbean region are in Bermuda this week to participate in the 46th Joint Meeting of the Executive and Education Committees and the 15th meeting of the Practice…
OPINION – Canefield Class Consciousness: Cheddi Jagan at 100
By Amílcar Sanatan From teleSUR Among the many achievements of the Jagan-led PPP, his analysis of the conditions of sugar workers was intellectually profound and insightful. Cheddi Jagan was born on 22 March 1918. As we approach his hundredth birthday,…
Caribbean states launch system to fight fake drugs
From FACE2FACE Africa Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states are putting the health needs of their people first following the launch of a system for reporting substandard, falsified medicines in the region. VigiCarib, which was launched by the Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS)…
A Caribbean increasingly more prosperous, equitable, secure, and united is possible
Full text of speech presented by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of stare and Ministers, during the VI Caricom-Cuba Summit. Antigua and Barbuda, December 8, 2017, Year 59 of the Revolutio Author: Raúl Castro Ruz |…
The Caribbean: The challenges of integration on the empire’s frontier
By Sergio Alejandro Gómez From Granma Former President of Dominica Juan Bosch described the Caribbean as an “imperial frontier,” and point of conflict between the economic and political interests of global powers, a reality which hasn’t changed since the time…
Caribbean nations must evolve networks to face new challenges, Tidd says
By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2017 — Networks are a fact of life in the world today and they are both the problem and the solution, U.S. Southern Command’s chief said today at the…
Guyana, other Caribbean countries tackle threats by violent extremists, cyber-criminals
by: Denis Chabro From Demerara Waves Top military officers from across the Caribbean, North America and Europe are meeting in Guyana to, among other things, hammer out a strategy to address threats by trans-national extremist groups. Sponsored annually by the…
CARICOM-UN will raise funds to help rebuild hurricane-hit Caribbean nations
From teleSUR With limited resources and lack of funding, many hurricane-torn regions in the Caribbean are finding it hard to recoup. The Caribbean Community, Caricom along with the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, will host a conference to assist the…