GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The chief investment officer of the Guyana Office for Investment, Dr.  Peter Ramsaroop, says the country is positioning its agricultural sector as a regional production and investment hub.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Mohamed Irfaan Ali has announced a series of new initiatives aimed at making rice farming more profitable and resilient, while overseeing the distribution of more than GY$400 million, in direct cash grants to rice farmers in Region Two.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says it is involved in a project aimed at strengthening sweet potato production and preserve vital genetic resources across the Caribbean.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has held talks with representatives of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to discuss developments in Guyana’s poultry industry after the authorities agreed to the temporary importation of approximately 330,000 pounds of chicken per week

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Island SPACE Caribbean Museum’s third annual Mango Festival welcomed approximately 1,200 attendees on Father’s Day, marking the event’s largest turnout yet and nearly doubling attendance from the previous year.

KINGSTON , Jamaica – Hundreds of farmers are to benefit from the Isratech Resilience Farm Tour, an initiative designed to help them recover and rebuild following the impact of Hurricane Melissa.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – The Cayman Islands Department of Agriculture (DoA) has confirmed outbreaks of the highly contagious poultry disease infectious coryza in an undisclosed number of chicken flocks across the territory.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize has launched a week-long training programme on reproductive technology in livestock focusing on capacity building to reduce inefficiencies in cattle and small ruminant milk and meat production.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana, which has lead responsibility for agriculture,  agricultural diversification, and food security within the quasi Caribbean Community (CARICOM) cabinet, says it is making remarkable progress in developing a regional brand of mutton through its Black Belly Sheep programme.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica says it has increased surveillance of all imported iceberg lettuce, other leafy vegetables, and fruits originating in or transiting through the United States amid the outbreak of the diarrhoea-causing parasite, Cyclospora.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua — Dona Regis-Prosper, Secretary-General and CEO of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), will deliver the keynote address at the 2026 Caribbean Food Forum on Thursday, May 21 in Antigua.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The opposition People’s National Party’s spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has called on the Government to allocate some of the money it hopes to earn from the Special Consumption Tax on non-alcoholic sweetened beverages towards healthier alternatives.