GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, Wednesday urged school children and other young people to refrain from getting involved in sexting, after education officials say they have noticed an increase in reports of many teenagers being caught up in sharing private photos of themselves on social media.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The UWI has formalized a new global partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) from the Netherlands.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says former University of Guyana (UG) students, who, have not signed up for a student loan, but owe the university will be eligible for the debt write-off programme announced by the government.

Washington, DC, November 25, 2024: Five students of Jamaican heritage, who are attending colleges and universities in the United States, have been awarded the 2024 Jamaican Nationals Association (JNA) College Student Scholarships.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaicans with unpaid student loans who migrate to the United States will face significant challenges when they seek to update or renew their immigration status.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana government says it will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a University of West Indies (UWI) Medical school in Guyana.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Finance Minister Colm Imbert Friday said that the government will not allow taxpayers to fund salary increases to lecturers at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) that would result in more than TT$700 million in backpay to the workers.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has again achieved top honors in the 2024 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) for the May/June session.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Educational institutions in four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are participating in the pilot phase of the Digitalisation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Delivery Project.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr Natalio Wheatley says educators in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) now rank among the highest-paid in the region following a recent compensation review.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, Wednesday urged regional countries to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in education warning that failure to do so could result in the Caribbean being left behind in an era of technological development.

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).