BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Temporary teachers are to begin receiving outstanding salaries on Tuesday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government says male Rastafarian students will no longer be required to wear tams to cover their dreadlocks while in classes.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of the West Indies (UWI) says its Open Campus will now be known as the Global Campus.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Cuba is offering to supply teachers to Jamaica as the country’s education system is being rocked with resignations.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Nearly five years after Ross University left Dominica for Barbados under controversial circumstances after having been on the island for the past 40 years, the American Canadian School of Medicine on Sunday opened its doors to students.

BARBADOS - The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the Caribbean region’s tourism development agency, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Caribbean Tourism Researchers Network (CTRN)/International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA), aimed at strengthening tourism research in the region.

ROSEAU, Dominica - Dominica’s Prime MInister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday expressed his country’s “profound gratitude to the People’s Republic of China” after Bejing agreed to fund the construction of six schools here totaling US$30 million.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana’s maritime training school – the Atlantic Alliance Maritime and Offshore Training Institute (AAMOTI) – has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a Dominican Republic-based University for enhanced collaboration and upskilling of this country’s workforce.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The University of the West Indies (UWI) says St. Vincent and the Grenadines national, Professor C. Justin Robinson, has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of its Five Islands Campus.

BRASILIA – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Food Program (WFP) say food feeding programs in Latin America and the Caribbean reach a total of 80.3 million children.

Philipsburg, St Maarten – In this year's IGT Coding and Robotics Rock! Camp, 72 students from six Caribbean countries came together to focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning with the camp's theme "Think it, Code it, Solve it." Both Level I and Level II students worked on creating captivating websites and petitions in support of SDGs.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The United Nation’s education, science and culture agency, UNESCO, is urging Caribbean countries to be part of a global ban on the use of mobile phones in schools.