Education & Skills: Dominica-based ECAAM and St. Maarten’s SKOS Catholic Education Foundation launched a two-year Project INSPIRE pilot to improve support for students with special educational needs, starting with teacher and school-manager training and adding parent workshops. Banking & Human Capital: The Caribbean Association of Banks and UWI rolled out a CAB–UWI Scholarship Programme 2026 to fund eligible banking employees pursuing a BSc in Banking and Finance, with the next intake set for January 2027. Digital Health: CARICOM health ministers moved to advance a regional digital health strategy with PAHO, IDB and the World Bank, aiming to strengthen healthcare delivery, surveillance, workforce management and health financing. Connectivity & Investment: EllaLink advanced its Caribbean Gateway into the development stage, targeting service by end-2029 and pushing open-access, carrier-neutral submarine connectivity that includes Dominica among the eastern corridor territories. Agriculture & Food Security: Agriculture Minister Rodwell Ferguson urged a regional “One country, one product” model to boost Caribbean food security through specialization and trade. Labour & Tourism Formalisation: A new ILO study flags informality and weak labour protections in Eastern Caribbean tourism, calling for productivity, decent work and formalisation to move together. Procurement (EU-backed): GIZ, under the Euroclima programme, issued an EOI for design-and-build services for steel-framed industrial installation at the Fond Cole Sanitary Landfill in Roseau, including electrical, CCTV, fire alarm and plumbing works. Regional Mobility for Farmworkers: Floyd Green called for a Caribbean framework to move agricultural workers, pointing to Dominica’s existing migrant-worker framework that has brought in about 200 workers for roughly 80 farmers. Travel Demand Signal: New travel data shows Dominica’s arrivals up 22%, with the island gaining momentum as more visitors look beyond the classic resort model.