Steps have been taken to unify the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector and the relevant authorities are now better able to see what impact that sector has on the country.
Chair of The UWI COVID-19 Task Force and Pro-Vice Chancellor Undergraduate Studies, The UWI, Professor Clive Landis gave the reassurance that the region can overcome the COVID-19 outbreak.
One regional university educator is reminding the Caribbean that this region has survived three viral outbreaks over the past eleven years and the region can overcome COVID-19 as well.
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley (centre) listens to a point being made during yesterday’s Emergency Social Partnership Meeting at the Hilton Hotel, alongside Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Jerome Walcott (left); NUPW President, Akanni McDowall (second from left); and Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic.
WHILE COVID-19 may not reach our shores, the consequences of the epidemic will, and it is against this backdrop that the Government will continue to ensure that there will be a significant amount o
Chair of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Gender Affairs Committee, Joy-Ann Inniss, delivering her address on the topic, ‘The Rights of the Caribbean Working Class Woman and the Way Forward for Labour’, during the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration’s International Women’s Day lecture.
Though the Employment Sexual Harassment (Prevention) Act was proclaimed in 2017, the implementation of this law in some workplaces still has not occurred.
Project Engineer, Justin Date (left), shares a word with Westmoreland resident, Ricardo Thompson (centre); and Ministry of Transport, Works and Maintenance Project Manager, Dave Scantlebury, at the end of the Town Hall meeting held to discuss planned changes to the Ronald Mapp Highway (Highway 2A).
An aerial view of the proposed intersection upgrades for the Ronald Mapp Highway.
SIX new roundabouts, traffic lights and new street lighting are just some of the major upgrades proposed to enhance the safety of the Ronald Mapp Highway.
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