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Kingston, Jamaica – A policeman attached to the Traffic Department was stabbed last night while on duty in the Half Way Tree area of St Andrew. The policeman was stabbed three times in his back and once on his right hand. A person has been…

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago was jolted Wednesday by an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 less than a week after the oil rich twin island republic was shaken by one with a 6.4 magnitude. The Trinidad-based Seismic…

Roseau -- The Dominica based OECS Export Development Unit (EDU) is to host a two-day workshop on Business Management for the Creative Industries Sector of the Economic Union in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines on Friday 18th and Saturday…

(OECS) Member States have made satisfactory progress on the implementation of six critical measures prescribed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that could help ensure a more consumer and investor friendly environment for clearing goods…

Castries -- The OECS Secretariat’s Regional Integration Unit (RIU) will be conducting a second seminar of Spokespersons for the OECS Economic Union from October 9th to 11th 2013 to further help in communicating the benefits implications,…

Barbados – Barbadian Dr Allyson Leacock has been announced as one of the international panel of jurors for this year’s Scotiabank Bright Future Awards. Dr Leacock, the Executive Director at Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS,…

Twenty-eight (28) innovative and growth-oriented Caribbean women entrepreneurs and business owners attended the first Grow Your Business Workshop in Barbados from 16-18 September 2013. The workshop was developed by the Women Innovators…

The University of the West Indies (UWI) Appointments Committee has approved Dr. Francis O. Severin as Director of the Open Campus Country Sites (OCCS) Division of the UWI Open Campus. A national of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Dr.…

(OECS Secretariat, Castries Saint Lucia) -- OECS Ministers of Environment and Sustainable Development will hold their annual meeting in Anguilla next week. The one day meeting is the seventeenth…

ZIZ News-- September 23, 2013 -- The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat is mobilizing regional leaders to put…

OCES -- Senior Trade officials from the OECS and wider CARICOM Member States will meet in Saint Lucia on September 10-11, to prepare for Ninth Meeting of WTO Trade Ministers in Bali Indonesia…

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) --The new Director of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr…

Patricia Maher presenting phones to Susan Jones-Benjamin Basseterre, St. Kitts,--August 7th, 2013--Digicel Grenada has inked its name as one of the sponsors for the…

l-r Ms. Yvonne Walkes, Chairman, Barbados Accreditation Council presenting the Certificate of Institutional Accreditation to Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor…

- June 28, 2013 -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has appointed Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, a national of Jamaica, as the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System's operational…