Above: RIM’s headquarters in Canada The Jamaican Ministry of Education is partnering with Research in Motion to provide some 20,000 teachers on the island with Blackberry smartphones. “If we are ever to close the development divide, technology will be one […]

Haitian President Michel Martelly’s second choice for prime minister, Bernard Gousse, has been rejected by lawmakers, the second PM pick by Martelly that the government has denied. Sixteen members of the 30-seat Haitian Senate voted against Gousse, a former justice […]

The first members of a Cuban biomedical engineering team are in Jamaica to restore medical equipment in the public health system. The biomedical agreement between Jamaica and Cuba will last for two years and cost $350,000, according to Health Minister […]

Above: Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud (GIS Photo) The recent crash of a Caribbean Airlines flight at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airpot could disrupt the Guyana Ministry of Agriculture’s plan to increase the size of its agriculture exports shipped by […]