NEW JERSEY – The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Foundation, says it will provide a scholarship to a Caribbean national in honor of the memory of the late Jean Holder,  who served as the first secretary general of the Barbados-based regional tourism body.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana's government says teachers across the country will benefit from special rates for housing loans, even as their union urged them to  stand strong and that the struggle will be “intensified in the coming days and weeks”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana's government says it will begin distributing GUY$4,500 in school supplies cash grants to students in schools across the island on Monday.

Kingston, Jamaica - The University of the West Indies Mona (The UWI) and Seneca Polytechnic, out of Toronto, Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster further collaboration between the two institutions, demonstrating their shared vision of offering world-class higher education locally and around the globe. The signing event, which took place at the High Commission of Canada, will further expand the strategic partnerships between Canada and Jamaica aimed at advancing education, research, international cooperation, and cross-cultural exchange.

WASHINGTON, DC - In the heart of Washington DC, on a day marked by celebration and forward-looking ambition, the David "Wagga" Hunt Foundation is set to illuminate the lives of many through its 2024 Red-Carpet Gala, Saturday, February 17, 2024, at the Elegant Atrium of the National Education Association Building.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Discussions are underway to bring the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) School of Medicine to Guyana, President Irfaan Ali announced on Sunday.

Over the past fifteen years, the Washington based David Wagga Hunt Foundation has disbursed some forty-six scholarships valuing over thirty one million Jamaican dollars to students at Calabar and Kingston College.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana's government on Tuesday said with “immediate effect” it would stop the “deduction of union dues” for teachers as it continued to label a strike by them as illegal.

SANTIAGO, Chile – Education ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were ending a two-day meeting here on Friday amid concerns that the challenge for the region is for “girls, boys, and adolescents to return to school, to reengage with it, to see their classrooms as a transformative space”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), is taking the government to Court over its objection of the two-week running industrial/strike action and a series of reproach which the union now deems as discriminatory and a breach and violation of key rights.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has formalized a significant partnership with the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) through the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU). This collaborative effort aims to enhance the skill levels of people working within the region’s dynamic tourism sector.

SANTIAGO, Chile – Education ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will meet on Thursday for a two-day conference that aims to advance in defining public policies focused on the reactivation, recovery, and transformation of education as accelerators of the educational goals of the 2030 Agenda.