Outgoing CARICOM Chairman: Significant Achievements Made This Year

Outgoing CARICOM Chairman: Significant Achievements Made This Year

President of Suriname Chandrikapersad Santokhi, the outgoing chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), declared that the region made significant progress in his outgoing statement. He reflected on the past few months of 2022 and CARICOM’s achievements. He mentioned preparations to celebrate the 50th anniversary of signing the Treaty of Chaguaramas and the critical decision to […]

Amid Unprecedented Violence, Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti, International Specialized Armed Force Urgently Needed, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Security Council

Amid Unprecedented Violence, Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti, International Specialized Armed Force Urgently Needed, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Security Council

PORT-AU-PRINCE – AUGUST 21: People buying and selling stuffs in front of a collapsed building in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on August 21 2010. (Shutterstock) By press.un.org Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the Security Council briefing on Haiti, in New York today: Thank you for the opportunity to make introductory remarks on the […]

Friends of all, Satellites of None

Friends of all, Satellites of None

By Caribbean Council Speaking in 1967 on joining the United Nations, the late Errol Barrow as Prime Minister of Barbados made clear that Barbados and the Caribbean “will be friends of all, satellites on none.” In this his last regular column David Jessop, reflects on a much-changed world and why the region’s young people need […]

How Putin’s War and Small Islands are Accelerating the Global Shift to Clean Energy, and What to Watch for in 2023

How Putin’s War and Small Islands are Accelerating the Global Shift to Clean Energy, and What to Watch for in 2023

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – December 06, 2022: Russian President Putin Attends A Youth Forum In Moscow. President Vladimir Putin in meeting. (Shutterstock) By Rachel Kyte, The Conversation The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning of 2023 is […]

21 Start Ups announced for 2nd Cohort of EC Greenpreneurs Incubator Program

21 Start Ups announced for 2nd Cohort of EC Greenpreneurs Incubator Program

Wednesday, December 28, 2022 — The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in partnership with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are pleased to announce that twenty-one start-ups from the OECS have been selected to participate in the second cohort of the Eastern Caribbean Green Entrepreneurship Incubator program. The Incubator program is a free, carefully […]

Harvard Names Claudine Gay 30th President

Harvard Names Claudine Gay 30th President

Photo: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer By harvard.edu Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1. Since 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the University’s largest […]

LUCELEC Engages Stakeholders on Decarbonization of Transportation

LUCELEC Engages Stakeholders on Decarbonization of Transportation

The world is gradually undergoing an energy transition as the financial and environmental cost of fossil fuels becomes increasingly higher than other energy sources. One of the areas Saint Lucia is pursuing to solve this energy challenge and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector is the transition to electric-powered vehicles or EV’s. St. Lucia […]

SLHTA’s Tourism Enhancement Fund $250,000 Yuletide Outreach

SLHTA’s Tourism Enhancement Fund $250,000 Yuletide Outreach

As part of its annual yuletide outreach, the SLHTA’s Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has disbursed grants and donations totaling over EC $250,000 to various organizations. Among the grantees is the St. Lucia Divers Association which has received EC $61,355.50 to facilitate the training of eight (8) Young Saint Lucians to Divemaster competency with the Professional […]

Caribbean Christmas – Traditions That Make Holiday Time the Best Time of Year

Caribbean Christmas – Traditions That Make Holiday Time the Best Time of Year

By Janet Howard, CAW Exclusive When most people think about the Christmas season, they picture snow, cold, and decked-out evergreens. That is the standard image of the holidays, but for those who grew up in the Caribbean or celebrate their Caribbean heritage, the picture looks much different. In place of snow, there is sand, with […]

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