MIAMI, FL. — To a crowd of more than 450 attendees, both in person and online, the 21st Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture, for the second time, hosted distinguished scholar, activist/organizer, teacher, and writer Angela Davis, renowned for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Davis delivered an impassioned plea to listeners on April 4 to know their history, to embrace it, and never, ever, to allow partisan politics to negate it.

BASSETERRE, ST. Kitts – Prime Minister Dr. Terrence Drew Thursday launched the “Graduate Finance Project” allowing for a significant reduction in the interest rates for students loans, saying that the initiative is vital to ensure that “meaningful change and development is fostered in education within the twin island Federation.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government is providing J$200 million towards the establishment of a Fiscal Research Institute within the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies (UWI).

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Researchers at the University of the West Indies (UWI)  have secured US$300,000 grant to conduct research into designing sustainable, nature-based coastal solutions.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has renamed a primary school in honor of Shirley Anita Chisholm, the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of the West Indies (UWI) says as an activist institution, it will continue its championing of reparatory justice and the advocacy, consciousness-raising and support for the CARICOM Reparations Commission’s Ten Point Plan.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Friday said that Trinidad and Tobago national, Samantha Marchan had become the first recipient of tof its scholarship to complete the International Master in Public Procurement Management (IMPPM) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

LONDON, UK – The London School of Economics (LSE) has renamed its Economics building after St. Lucian Nobel Laureate, Sir William Arthur Lewis, the LSE’s first black academic and the United Kingdom’s first black professor.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Industrial action taken by staff at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) over lack of pay increases is set to intensify, the West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) has warned.

An important part of Jamaica’s rich cultural heritage is the Traditional Folk Forms, which include several categories such as Maypole, Quadrille, Kumina/Congo, Revival, Ni Night/ Nine-Night, Gerreh, Dinki-Mini, Zella, Tambu, Jonkunnu, Burru Song and Dance, Ettu, Bruckin's Party, and Maroon Dance.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean universities from Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, with faculties responsible for agriculture and or food, have agreed to partner with CARICOM to support reductions in the region’s food import bill by 25 percent by 2025.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – There is a call for greater collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Youth and Jamaicans locally and in the diaspora, to tackle the culture of violent confrontations among students in schools.