By Lincoln DePradine Local attorney Arley Gill, who is a leading advocate in the Grenada and Caribbean movement that’s demanding reparations for the enslavement of Africans in the region, has said that Britain’s King Charles must do more than express sorrow over slavery. Reparations payment, “ultimately, is what we want,’’ Gill said in an interview […]
FAO is working with partners and stakeholders to roll out a project aimed at rearing insects as a locally produced alternative feed source for animals in the Caribbean February 9, 2023, Port of Spain – Trinidad and Tobago – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of […]
Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 August 2021 – CIBC FirstCaribbean has officially extended its partnership with The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus with the signing of a memorandum of understanding for three years. The agreement, which was signed on Tuesday August 17, 2021, is for the period 2021/22 to 2023/24, and will cover four […]
The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus Alumni recently launched an Endowment Fund to provide scholarships to talented but needy students from across the Caribbean as well as grants for developmental projects for the Open Campus. The earnings from the fund will be utilised under the guidance of a Governing Board of Advisors consisting primarily […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Thursday, 20 May 2021) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) now has a cohort of Early Childhood Educators with new skills to conduct online teaching of children between the ages of 3 to 8 years old. A recently concluded workshop trained 40 Early Childhood Practitioners from across the Community in […]
May 7, 2021 – Prime Minister, Dr. the Right Honourable Keith Mitchell, on Thursday chaired the inaugural meeting of the Special Committee set up to review the academic and administrative operations of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Centre. Dr. Mitchell is Chairman of the eight-member Special Committee of the University Grants Committee which […]
Castries, Saint Lucia (Monday February 8th, 2020) – The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia, in collaboration with the GEF Small Grants Programme UNDP, will host its 4th Country Conference from the 15th to 17th February 2021. The theme of this year’s Conference is “Visioning Sustainable Futures – Confronting the Threats of Climate Change and Climate […]
Kingston, Jamaica, December 1, 2020. On November 26, CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) presented a cheque for US$250,000 (J$35 million) to The University of the West Indies (The UWI) for scholarships and for covering the tuition fees of students who are in need of financial support this academic year. Approximately US$108,000 […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused profound challenges in education, as many young people who lack technological devices and internet access are being left behind their peers in the shift to remote learning. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is stepping in to close this gap for disadvantaged students enrolled at the University of the West Indies […]
