Downward slide in global food prices continues: FAO

Downward slide in global food prices continues: FAO

(United Nations News) Global food prices dropped for the tenth consecutive month in January, the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

New Mexican Ambassador to CARICOM accredited

New Mexican Ambassador to CARICOM accredited

CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, on Monday accepted the credentials of Plenipotentiary Representative of Mexico to CARICOM, His Excellency Mauricio...

UG confers honorary doctorate on Guyanese-British Actress

UG confers honorary doctorate on Guyanese-British Actress

(Department of Public Information Press Release) The University of Guyana (UG) on Wednesday conferred an honorary degree – ‘honoris causa’,...

Preparatory Meeting for the Sixty-Seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67)

Preparatory Meeting for the Sixty-Seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67)

The Gender and Development Programme, CARICOM Secretariat, in collaboration with UN Women, is facilitating the Preparatory Meeting for the Sixty-Seventh Session of...

Youth in Agriculture – Young bee-keepers sweet on their profession

Youth in Agriculture – Young bee-keepers sweet on their profession

Young people across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are demonstrating how innovation, imagination, dexterity, and raw ambition can augment food production,...

Revive, restore wetlands, home to 40 per cent of all biodiversity

Revive, restore wetlands, home to 40 per cent of all biodiversity

(United Nations News) Although coastal and freshwater wetlands – such as swamps, mangroves and marshes – contain 40 per cent...

CARICOM, World Food Programme discuss critical priorities for Food Security

CARICOM, World Food Programme discuss critical priorities for Food Security

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Dr. Armstrong Alexis, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM, met with a delegation from the United Nations World...

Guyanese academic Gordon Rohlehr dies

Guyanese academic Gordon Rohlehr dies

(Demerara Waves) Emeritus Professor at Trinidad’s St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Guyana-born Gordon Rohlehr...

Guyana building new regional ‘agri-tech’ campus – President Ali

Guyana building new regional ‘agri-tech’ campus – President Ali

(Newsroom) President Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced that a new regional agriculture technology campus will be built in Guyana as...