Year: 2014
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Caribbean Ministers Give Medical Laboratories an Urgent Assignment
The 19th Special Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) held in Washington DC, 27-28 September, has endorsed an initiative which the Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF) is facilitating under its CARICOM-PANCAP Global Fund Programme, aimed at transforming the health laboratory environment. This is a crucial development for Public Health in the region, as in the face of increasing demands, Caribbean medical…
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OECS Health Ministers say Chik-V and Ebola are urgent priorities
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Monday October 20, 2014 – Health Ministers of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, have identified Chikungunya and Ebola as the most urgent public health priorities facing the region at this time. In a statement issued Monday by the St. Lucia-based OECS Commission, the Ministers said that given the actual and potential socio-economic impact of both…
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PM Douglas chairs Special Meeting of CDB in Barbados
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 20TH 2014 (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has chaired a Special Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The Meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados, reviewed CDB’s 2015 – 2019 strategic plan. The Governors first reviewed the draft in May at the Annual…
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Statement by The Honourable Gaston Browne Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
As Chairman of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) I join the people of the Caribbean in expressing profound disappointment over the current state of affairs of West Indian cricket. The abrupt termination of the tour of India is a matter of deep distress, particularly as it has damaged the reputation of West Indian cricket and disrupted long-standing arrangements by other countries…
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Caribbean common fisheries policy authorised for implementation
The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), comprised of ministers responsible for agriculture from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has confirmed the Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy as a final policy document for the Community. The Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy (CCCFP) is aimed at fostering greater harmonisation across the Caribbean in the sustainable management and development of the…
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US Ambassador Birx to deliver keynote address to PANCAP 13th AGM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) — Under the theme, “Positioning the Partnership for Post-2015,” more than one hundred representatives of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will meet for the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Partnership, on 3-4 November 2014, in Guadeloupe. World re-known expert on HIV and Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator of the United States…
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Chile to multiply contributions to the Region
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In presenting his Letters of Credence to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, new Ambassador of Chile to CARICOM, H.E. Fernando Schmidt said the Caribbean will benefit next year when his country multiples its contribution to the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP). While making his inaugural remarks on Wednesday, 15 October at the…
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Remarks By Ambassador Dr. Manorma Soeknandan, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM Secretariat, at The Opening Ceremony For The Workshop “Ibero-America And The Caribbean South-South Cooperation” 15 October 2014, CARICOM Secretariat
The Caribbean Community takes great pleasure in welcoming to Guyana and in particular to the headquarters of the Caribbean Community Secretariat, the participants in this Ibero-American and Caribbean Workshop on South-South Cooperation. The Community is pleased to be associated with the hosting of this collaborative effort between the Ibero-American countries and the Caribbean. The distribution of national participation in this…
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CARICOM, Turkey to strengthen trade links
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Turkey will continue to strengthen their relations with the accreditation of Ambassador Sulé Oztunç, as new Plenipotentiary Representative of Turkey to the Community. In accepting her credentials on Tuesday, CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said the occasion signaled Turkey’s growing commitment to ensure “the immense potential” of its relationship…
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P.J Patterson passes “Reparations Torch” to Prime Minister Gaston Browne at Second Regional Conference on Reparations
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Most Hon. P. J. Patterson, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, in a rousing address to the Opening Ceremony of the Second Regional Conference on Reparations in Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday night, gave the charge and entrusted the continuity of the pursuit of Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery, to the Hon. Gaston…
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