Year: 2014
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CARICOM to hold CSME Labour Stakeholders Workshop
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Employers’ and workers’ associations from across the Region will be sensitized and updated on the CSME regimes for free movement of skills and labour, at a major regional CARICOM and Single Market and Economy (CSME) Labour Stakeholders Workshop, in Dominica, on 10 and 11 November 2014. The two-day workshop which is being convened by…
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Working Towards an AIDS-Free Caribbean at the 13th Annual General Meeting of PANCAP
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) This week, leaders and key decision-makers gathered to strategise and to identify the actions needed to achieve the goals set out by the recently adopted Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) 2014-2018. A recurring theme of the discussions at the 13th Annual general meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) was…
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CACRICOM, UNFPA framework aims to reduce adolescent pregnancy in region
ADOLESCENT pregnancy in the Caribbean could decline by 20 per cent between 2015 and 2019 if an initiative by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) succeeds. Last year, UNFPA and Caricom unveiled a strategic framework aimed at reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in countries of the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, executive…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development
Before the beginning of our business here today, I would like to pause to pay tribute to Margaret Kalloo, former Deputy Programme Manager in the Agriculture Unit of the Secretariat. We, at the Secretariat, are in a reflective mode following Margaret’s death last week. Margaret almost single-handedly designed and carried the Regional SPS Programme and through her many years…
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Drugs and tourism combine to raise HIV risk in Caribbean
New research shows how drugs in the Dominican Republican’s touristy areas present barriers to preventing HIV. The Caribbean has the second highest global HIV prevalence in the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, with HIV/AIDS as leading cause of death among people aged 20–59 years within the region. Particularly hard-hit are the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti, on the island of…
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Ranking the Caribbean on Gender Equality
Which Caribbean countries have the highest level of gender equality? The World Economic Forum has released its latest Global Gender Gap Report, looking at how countries around the world fare when it comes to gender equality. The report examines a host of factors, including health and survival, educational attainment, economic participation and opportunity and political empowerment. “The rankings are designed…
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World’s hottest peppers produced and sold by Caribbean agriculture institute
ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad — The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) has been supplying Caribbean farmers with quality hot pepper seeds for the past 20 years. Currently, four main varieties are produced by CARDI and supplied through its distributor, Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Ltd, to agro retail outlets from Belize in Central America; Cayman Islands and Jamaica in the…
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Statement At The Conclusion of the Seventeenth Special Meeting of The Conference of Heads of Government of The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Public Health Challenges Port-Of-Spain Trinidad 4 November, 2014
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in special session in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 November, 2014, for deliberations on the two current public health challenges facing the Community: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); and the Chikungunya outbreak. Heads of Government expressed considerable concern, not just in relation to the possible health impact of the Ebola…
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History wil Judge us -US Ambassador tells PANCAP 13TH AGM Official Opening
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In what could only be described as a most memorable opening, the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) got underway in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, last evening 3 November 2014, under the chairmanship of PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director, Dereck Springer . Speakers from Guadeloupe, international development partners and…
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Government to adopt Red Stripe technology in Cassava Production
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 4, 2014 – Government will shortly be adopting the technology used by Red Stripe in its large-scale cassava production, so that an islandwide cassava industry can be sustained as the technology being being utilized is delivering the kind of yields that will make the industry economical. Minister of Agriculture, Derrick Kellier pointed out that with the Red…
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