No current active cases in Trinidad and Tobago

The Ministry of Health, in its Thursday 21 May update, announced that there were no patients receiving treatment for COVID-19...

Loss of mangroves, land for agriculture in focus as CARICOM observes International Biological Diversity Day

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat’s Human and Social Development chief, Dr Douglas Slater has drawn attention to the decline of land...

Op-Ed: Caribbean island states need differentiated treatment due to COVID-19. Here’s why.*

Tourism-dependent, climate-vulnerable states need to respond to the devastation of COVID-19 with a hurricane season around the corner Small Island...

As World observes International Biodiversity Day CARICOM calls for action to address biodiversity loss

Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, Dr Douglas Slater has called for actions to foster more ecosystem-based solutions to...

No new COVID-19 cases in Barbados

There were no newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Barbados on Thursday.  All 116 tests conducted for the viral illness...

UN Launches New Initiative to Fight COVID-19 Misinformation Through ‘Digital First Responders’

(United Nations News) A new UN initiative aims to push back against the tide of lies and hate that has...

Medical masks should be worn with coloured section outwards

(St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service, Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 21, 2020) Wearing face masks while in public is now...

CARICOM Electoral Observation Mission to Suriname pays courtesy visit to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paramaribo – The CARICOM Electoral Observation Mission to Suriname paid a courtesy visit to the Minister...

Human Development Backslides, Education at Global Levels ‘Not Seen Since The 1980s’

(United Nations News) School closures, to stem the spread of the , have left some 60 per cent of the...