OCHO RIOS, Jamaica – Carnival Corporation & plc recently hosted 44 top-performing students from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) for an exclusive ship visit aboard the Carnival Horizon docked in Ocho Rios. The group included 22 students from the Marine Transportation program and 22 from the Marine Engineering program. Timed to commemorate World Maritime Day 2024, this event underscored Carnival Corporation’s ongoing investment in the Caribbean’s maritime sector and strong partnership with CMU, initiated through a March 2023 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

WASHINGTON, DC - Twenty-five students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University last Saturday were the recipients of scholarships valued at US $102,000 from the Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network (JHUAN). Each awardee received US $4,000 to assist in offsetting their tuition requirements.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali  says the poor performance of Caribbean students in mathematics is a matter of concern for regional leaders and that the matter needs to be fully ventilated.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Education, Technological and Vocational Training Minister, Kay McConney, is calling on all stakeholders to adopt a “whole of country” approach to violence in  schools.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) says it has entered into a partnership with the Maritime Authority of Suriname (MAS) and Suriname Foundation for Logistics Training (FLT) to establish a campus there.

BELMOPAN, Belize –  Belize has signed a US$125 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement with the United States intended to achieve better outcomes in the country’s secondary education and technical and vocational education training (TVET) sector.

WASHINGTON, DC - Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks has congratulated the University of the West Indies on its new International School for Development Justice, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has moved a step closer to establishing a law school here after the Council for Legal Education (CLE) appointed a high-level subcommittee “to move the process forward,” Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has announced.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Public school teachers on Friday resumed classes after two days of industrial action over outstanding pay.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has launched a new initiative aimed at equipping students with essential life skills, such as saving, budgeting, and investing. It is designed to immerse students in the dynamics of the financial world, through a simulated stock market.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Jamaica Howard University Affinity Network (JHUAN) announced the distribution of US $102,000 scholarships to twenty-five students of Jamaican heritage attending Howard University.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The St. Lucia government Wednesday said that a pilot program geared towards the teaching of the indigenous Kwéyòl language or Creole in schools will begin in 15 schools during the 2024/25 academic year.