PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, Wednesday urged regional countries to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in education warning that failure to do so could result in the Caribbean being left behind in an era of technological development.

OCHO RIOS, Jamaica – Carnival Corporation & plc recently hosted 44 top-performing students from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) for an exclusive ship visit aboard the Carnival Horizon docked in Ocho Rios. The group included 22 students from the Marine Transportation program and 22 from the Marine Engineering program. Timed to commemorate World Maritime Day 2024, this event underscored Carnival Corporation’s ongoing investment in the Caribbean’s maritime sector and strong partnership with CMU, initiated through a March 2023 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

WASHINGTON, DC - Twenty-five students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University last Saturday were the recipients of scholarships valued at US $102,000 from the Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network (JHUAN). Each awardee received US $4,000 to assist in offsetting their tuition requirements.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says former University of Guyana (UG) students, who, have not signed up for a student loan, but owe the university will be eligible for the debt write-off programme announced by the government.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Education, Technological and Vocational Training Minister, Kay McConney, is calling on all stakeholders to adopt a “whole of country” approach to violence in  schools.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) says it has entered into a partnership with the Maritime Authority of Suriname (MAS) and Suriname Foundation for Logistics Training (FLT) to establish a campus there.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana government says it will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a University of West Indies (UWI) Medical school in Guyana.

WASHINGTON, DC - Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks has congratulated the University of the West Indies on its new International School for Development Justice, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has moved a step closer to establishing a law school here after the Council for Legal Education (CLE) appointed a high-level subcommittee “to move the process forward,” Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has announced.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Educational institutions in four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are participating in the pilot phase of the Digitalisation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Delivery Project.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has launched a new initiative aimed at equipping students with essential life skills, such as saving, budgeting, and investing. It is designed to immerse students in the dynamics of the financial world, through a simulated stock market.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network (JHUAN) announced the distribution of US $102,000 scholarships to twenty-five students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University.