Hurricane Melissa’s destruction shows need for climate resilience push

Avinash Persaud is special advisor to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank on climate change and an architect of the 2022 Bridgetown Initiative. Emily Wilkinson is director of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)...

Antiguan Officials Participate in EU-Funded Study Tour on Rural Development in Spain

Antigua and Barbuda Delegation Visits Spain for Sustainable Agriculture Exchange Members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including government representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the...

Integrating DNA Sequencing and AI for AAV Genome Integrity

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SVG to celebrate Tourism Month from Tomorrow

The Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture joins the rest of the Caribbean region in celebrating Caribbean Tourism Month in November, 2025. The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), is referred in a release from...

Support for Jamaica in the aftermath of Melissa

During the Caribbean Week of Agriculture in October, the host minister, Saboto S Caesar, Minister of Agriculture in St Vincent and the Grenadines, highlighted the need for better post-disaster support for countries. St Vincent and the Grenadines...

The people will decide

Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has at last ended months of fruitless speculation about the date of the next general elections by formally announcing on Tuesday night of this week, that the much-anticipated general elections will be held on...

Official kickoff of SARSEA Project

The Sargassum Regional Strategies for Ecosystem-based Actions (SARSEA) project was officially launched on 28 October in St Lucia, in the presence of numerous government, institutional and scientific representatives from across the Caribbean...

SVG gears up for Caribbean tourism month 2025

2025 TOURISM MONTH KICKS OFF ON SATURDAY 1ST NOVEMBER The Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture will once again join the rest of the Caribbean region in celebrating Caribbean Tourism Month during the month of...

Agricultural representatives from English-speaking Caribbean countries visit Malaga's Axarquía

Monday, 27 October 2025, 19:00 Share Members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) who represent governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica and Saint Kitts and Nevis, along with...

Opposition Leader welcomes Nov. 27 election date

Opposition Leader Godwin Friday has welcomed the announcement of Thursday, Nov. 27, as the date for the general election in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, saying that the following day is Friday in more ways than one. Friday addressed a campaign...

Under Dr Gonsalves SVG has grown regional counterparts say

News October 31, 2025 Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has received passing grades from two of his regional colleagues, Prime Minister of St Lucia Philip J. Pierre, and Prime Minister of Dominica, Rosevelt Skerritt, both of whom have commending...

Bruno Rodríguez: “The U.S. blockade is collective punishment against the Cuban people”

4 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced in an exclusive interview with teleSUR the intensification of US pressure on the international community to maintain the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba, and...

OECS kicks off SARSEA project to tackle Sargassum in the Caribbean

The Sargassum Regional Strategies for Ecosystem-based Actions (SARSEA) project was officially launched on 28 October in Saint Lucia, in the presence of numerous government, institutional and scientific representatives from across the Caribbean...

Official kickoff of the SARSEA Project: Enhanced Regional Cooperation to tackle the Challenge of Sargassum in the Caribbean

The Sargassum Regional Strategies for Ecosystem-based Actions (SARSEA) project was officially launched on 28 October in Saint Lucia, in the presence of numerous government, institutional and scientific representatives from across the Caribbean...

The Banana farmer championing food security in SVG

Nioka Abbott-Balcombe, a banana producer from SVG empowers rural women In the archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, this banana producer has made farming her life and her purpose. “My name is Nioka Abbott-Balcombe and I am a farmer by...

PM: Caricom no longer a reliable partner

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday that Trinidad and Tobago will be realigning its foreign policy. She said her Government no longer views Caricom as a reliable partner. “I do not consider Caricom a reliable partner and over...

SVG PM wants nationals to ‘own the future’

As St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrates its 46th anniversary of political independence from Great Britain, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves wants nationals to “own the future.” “My simple message to the people of St. Vincent and the...

MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – October 27, 2025

Happy Independence Day SVG October 27, 2025 Happy Independence Day to St. Vincent and the Grenadines! As the nation marks 46 years of independence, MPE joins the Caribbean and the wider world in saluting the Vincentian people and celebrating their...

PM Persad-Bissessar: Caricom no longer a reliable partner

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Photo: Internet Source TRINIDAD EXPRESS PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago- Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday that Trinidad and Tobago will be realigning its foreign policy. She said...

Modern port to revolutionize SVG’s agriculture, fisheries

The Modern Kingstown Port: A Revolution for Vincentian agriculture and fisheries The official commissioning of the modern port in Kingstown is not just an upgrade to our infrastructure; it is a profound declaration of our commitment to the future...