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02Dec

Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Secretary General presents the State of the Industry Report 2014

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The Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Secretary General, Hugh Riley, presented the State of the Industry Report 2014 at a news conference at the CTO HQ in Barbados on Tuesday 10 February. There, he declared: “With a strong year for air travel, a positive performance by the acco...

27Jul

CARPHA continues to advocate collaboration between health and tourism sectors

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July 2015. CARPHA continues to advocate collaboration between health and tourism sectors to jointly address the critical link between tourism and health. One way of achieving this objective would be to strengthen the existing national surveillance system through the addition of an early warning and ...

12Jul

CARPHA Receives US$0.8M from IDB to Help Build a More Competitive and Sustainable Caribbean Tourism Product

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, December 4, 2015: Executive Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr C. James Hospedales, is pleased to announce that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved funding in the amount of US$800,000 for CARPHA to address health, safety and e...

26Jan

CARPHA collaborates with Turks and Caicos to Implement a Health surveillance system for early warning and response to tourism related illness in Hotels

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CARPHA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Tourism Authority and the Hotel and Tourism Association, Turks and Caicos, hosted a two day Hotel Based Surveillance Workshop during the month of January 2015. Dr. Indar, Tourism and Health Programme Coordinator at CARPHA, stated that the purp...

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New Report Calls For Coordinated, Multi-sectoral Action to Tackle Firearm-related Violence and Trafficking in the Caribbean

12/4/2025 8:43:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – 2 December 2025 – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA),...
CARPHA Strengthens Antigua and Barbuda’s Capacity for Pesticide Monitoring and Environmental Health Surveillance

12/3/2025 3:29:00 PM

St. John’s, Antigua. November 27, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment, successfully hosted a four-day tr...
CARPHA Strengthens Regional Alert Surveillance Systems for Vector-Borne Diseases Through Data Analysis Capacity Building Workshop

12/3/2025 8:59:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 2, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has successfully concluded a two-day regional workshop in Trinidad and Tobago “Streng...
CARPHA and Guyana’s Ministry of Health Launch its 70th Annual Health Research Conference: A Historic Milestone for Regional Public Health.

11/28/2025 9:17:00 AM

Georgetown, Guyana. November 28, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in partnership with the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana (Guyana), through the Ministry of Hea...
CARPHA Advances One Health and Regional Health Security through Second Integrated Foodborne Diseases and Zoonoses Workshop

11/26/2025 10:02:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 26, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully hosted its second One Health Multidisciplinary Workshop to Promote Integrated ...
CARPHA and Turks and Caicos Islands Strengthen Climate-Resilient Water Safety Systems

11/21/2025 9:51:00 PM

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. November 19, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Ministry of Health and Human Ser...
CARPHA Provides Critical Laboratory Support to Jamaica Following the Impact of Hurricane Melissa

11/21/2025 8:02:00 AM

Kingston, Jamaica. November 21, 2025: In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which has significantly disrupted public health services in Jamaica, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), thro...
CARPHA Marks World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week: Showcasing Major Regional Achievements in Strengthening AMR Response

11/15/2025 9:45:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 14, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) joins the global community in observing World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW...
CARPHA Provides Critical Health Sector Support in Jamaica Following Hurricane Melissa

11/14/2025 4:40:00 PM

Kingston, Jamaica. November 14, 2025 – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), under its established Incident Management Team – Emergency Response protocol, was formally deployed...
CARPHA Calls for Greater Action to Prevent and Manage Diabetes in the Region

11/14/2025 8:09:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, November 13, 2025. In recognition of World Diabetes Day, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging governments, health providers, civil society org...

CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

5/16/2014 5:08:00 PM

Hypertension

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 16, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is calling on persons to know their blood pressure, strive to keep it healthy or lower it. This is in keep...
CARPHA and CTO Launch Tourism and Health Programme

7/5/2014 1:45:00 PM

Tourism

CARPHA and CTO successfully launched the regional tourism and health programme and conducted an awareness and discussion workshop on Friday May 2, 2014 in Aruba. The keynote address was given by the M...
CARPHA’s new Chairman of the Board

11/12/2013 4:17:00 PM

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 02, 2013: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of the Honourable Colin Riley, Minister of Health of Montserrat...
Saint Lucia Joins Regional Project to Build Public Health Capacity

9/9/2014 5:03:00 PM

Castries, Saint Lucia, September 04, 2014. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, Human Services and Gender Relations, in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is launching the Ca...
New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

2/13/2014 11:21:00 AM

Laboratory, Biosafety

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) moved today one step forward in its mission to provide strategic direction in analyzing, defining and responding to public health priorities of CARICOM, in ...
CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

9/3/2015 4:50:00 AM

Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (CR-FELTP) Trains New Mentors in Jamaica The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) hosted a four-day workshop in Kingston, Jam...
GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

6/27/2014 11:32:00 AM

The Center for Global Health of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), St. George's Un...
Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean "Low"

11/8/2014 3:23:00 PM

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 06, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low. Executive Direct...
Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

11/12/2013 4:56:00 PM

Influenza, Virus, Vaccination

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 26, 2013. The Caribbean, like other regions in the Americas, experiences seasonal influenza activity. Improved health monitoring by Ministries of Health i...
CARPHA Issues its First Emergency Use Recommendation for a COVID-19 Vaccine

3/9/2021 5:27:00 PM

CARPHA Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) issued its first certificate of recommendation for emergency use for the COVID-19 vaccine COVISHIELD™ to CARPHA Member States on 2nd March, 2021.