Third International Youth Forum (IYF3) On Creativity and Heritage

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120 delegates from over 85 countries attended the Third International Youth Forum (IYF3) on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road, in UNESCO designated creative cities of Changsha and Nanjing, China. Twelve delegates from the Caribbean; Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, the Bahamas, St Kitts & Nevis, the Dominican Republic […]

First International Bioethics Conference

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The Omani National Bioethics Committee (NBC) in collaboration with the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), the Research Council (TRC) of Oman and UNESCO organized the First International Bioethics Conference in Muscat, Oman, from 8 to 10 March 2015. Cheryl Brown, as a member of the IBC, attended this First International Bioethics […]

Creative Cities of Music Sub-Network Meeting

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The four-day meeting, (16 -18 February 2018) which was held in the Caribbean for the first time, aims to strengthen ties between designated Creative Cities of Music and serves as a platform for discussions on musical creativity. Delegates attending include representatives from the cities of Hamamatsu, Japan; Katowice, Poland; Glasgow, […]

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ARCHIVES (CARBICA) MEETING

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Caribbean Branch of the International Council on Archives (CARBICA) hosted a meeting in Philipsburg, St Maarten to effect regional approaches to disaster recovery and heritage preservation. In light of the devastation wrought in the Caribbean as a result of the 2017 tropical Atlantic hurricane season, which saw the passage of […]

Intergovernmental Meetings of the Global Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications, Paris

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Dameon Black (Commissioner, Executive Director, Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission)

Caribbean SIDS: a roadmap to biosphere nomination

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March 2018 – Caribbean SIDS: a roadmap to biosphere nomination (MAB 4 days workshop)/Awareness meeting in Brown’s Town