BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus has stoutly defended its law program after Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham questioned the quality of the program and the lawyers it was producing .

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A student at the University of Guyana , Josiah Cossiah, who designed and built an American Sign Language translator glove, recently received the Best Innovative Project award from the institution.

Over the past fifteen years, the Washington based David Wagga Hunt Foundation has disbursed some forty-six scholarships valuing over thirty one million Jamaican dollars to students at Calabar and Kingston College.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali Wednesday said the University of Guyana (UG) would serve as the seat of the National Defence Institute (NDI), which he says is intended to play a major role in Caribbean security.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo has called on educators to end their protest action as he expressed confidence that the High Court will rule in favor of the government’s decision to deduct monies from the salaries of striking teachers.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), is taking the government to Court over its objection of the two-week running industrial/strike action and a series of reproach which the union now deems as discriminatory and a breach and violation of key rights.

WASHINGTON, DC – Policymakers, stakeholders, and communities across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are being urged to take immediate action to overcome one of the region’s greatest education crises in the last 100 years, to ensure sustainable growth and the youth’s future.

NEW JERSEY – The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Foundation, says it will provide a scholarship to a Caribbean national in honor of the memory of the late Jean Holder,  who served as the first secretary general of the Barbados-based regional tourism body.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana's government says teachers across the country will benefit from special rates for housing loans, even as their union urged them to  stand strong and that the struggle will be “intensified in the coming days and weeks”.

Film producer Andrea Iervolino (“Ferrari”) is in talks with the University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus to introduce a new program for students interested in pursuing a career in the film industry.

Kingston, Jamaica - The University of the West Indies Mona (The UWI) and Seneca Polytechnic, out of Toronto, Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster further collaboration between the two institutions, demonstrating their shared vision of offering world-class higher education locally and around the globe. The signing event, which took place at the High Commission of Canada, will further expand the strategic partnerships between Canada and Jamaica aimed at advancing education, research, international cooperation, and cross-cultural exchange.

WASHINGTON, DC - In the heart of Washington DC, on a day marked by celebration and forward-looking ambition, the David "Wagga" Hunt Foundation is set to illuminate the lives of many through its 2024 Red-Carpet Gala, Saturday, February 17, 2024, at the Elegant Atrium of the National Education Association Building.