Around the Caribbean

Key Meeting in Martinique to Advance Plans for the 2025 Kréyol Basketball Championship

Fort-de-France, Martinique — The Caribbean sports community takes another step forward as Marvin Jno Baptiste, President of the NGO Caribbean Sport & Sustainable Development, met today with the President of the local Government of Martinique, Serge Letchimy and the President of the Martinique basketball league, Raymond Petit-Frere to discuss strategic plans for the highly anticipated 2025 Kréyol Basketball Championship.

Multiverse Games & Experiences Partners with Local Primary School to Bring Virtual Reality to Education

Multiverse Games & Experiences is proud to announce an exciting new partnership with the Berean Christian Union Academy, our first primary school partner, to integrate virtual reality (VR) into the classroom. This partnership, which began on the 19th September 2024 and was successfully completed on 12th December 2024, marked the first step in our broader mission to bring immersive learning experiences to schools across Dominica.

CARIFORUM, UK reaffirm commitment to implementing EPA

(CARIFORUM Directorate, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – The Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) and the United Kingdom (UK) have reaffirmed their commitment to fully implementing and ratifying the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed in 2021.

CARICOM Secretariat, CANOC teams meet

A team from the CARICOM Secretariat and representatives of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) on Friday held talks at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana. The CARICOM Secretariat team included Dr. Wendell Samuel, Assistant Secretary-General (ag) Economic Integration, Innovation and Development (EIID); Ambassador David Prendergast, Director, Sectoral Programmes; Mr. Sherwin Toyne Stephenson, Programme Manager, Crime and Security; Mr. Davion Leslie, Programme Manager, Human Resource Development; and Mr. Timothy Odle, Deputy Programme Manager, Services Sector Development.