The Thirty-Fifth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Dickenson Bay, Antigua and Barbuda, from 1-4 July 2014. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne, chaired the proceedings. Other members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Rt....

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, says he will shortly sign off on a US$42 million project to deal with the issue of non-revenue water. This refers to water produced by the National Water Commission (NWC), which cannot be accounted for, whether through theft or leakage. Minister Pickersgill said that for the first six months...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson says plans to merge aspects of the National HIV/STI Programme with the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) are far advanced. Making his contribution to the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 1, Dr. Ferguson said the Ministry is moving to address integration at the level of service delivery to...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has congratulated the Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, for that country’s enactment of legislation amending the country’s Constitution to adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as Dominica’s final Court of Appeal. The amendment was approved by Dominica’s House of Assembly, yesterday (July1). Speaking this morning (July 2) with Prime...

The creation of a 10-year Strategic Development Plan forms part of recommendations outlined in an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded technical study conducted on Jamaica’s health care system. The study, which focused on the ‘Reform and Financing of Jamaica’s Health System’, aims to assist the Health Ministry to provide increased access by persons to affordable and quality health care. This was...

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to this Honourable House to be able to serve the people of Eastern St. Thomas for another year as their Member of Parliament. I am humbled by the level of trust that they have continually shown in me for more than 21 years. I will always serve them diligently for as long as they believe I am...

Fourteen developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have been invited to participate in the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Programme in Low Income Countries (SREP), and an additional country to the Clean Technology Fund (CTF). This expands the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) reach to 63 countries worldwide. According to a post conference release from Climate Investment Fund (CIF),...