Year: 2014
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Brazil and Dominica Sign Pair of Cooperation Agreements
The governments of Dominica and Brazil have signed a pair of cooperation agreements. The deals include an agreement first proposed at the Brazil-CARICOM summit in 2010 and a $100,000 pact between the two countries’ water utilities. “We signed an agreement in water resource development in September 2013 and the Government of Brazil has proposed a water resource management programme through…
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Top Priorities for Implementation Strategic Plan for the Community (2015-2019): Repositioning CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Strategic Plan for the Community, approved by CARICOM Heads at their 35th Regular Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda July 1-4 2014, identifies eight integrated Strategic Priorities for the Community over the five-year period, 2015-2019, and key areas of interventions for each. The integrated Strategic Priorities are: Building Economic Resilience; Social Resilience; Environmental Resilience;…
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Acceptance Speech at The 35th Session of the Heads of Government Meeting CARICOM Antigua and Barbuda Tuesday, July 1, 2014
I commence with a heartfelt recognition of the plight of the young high-school girls of Chibok, Borno State, abducted in April of this year, the two teenaged Indian girls raped and hanged in Uttar Pradesh in May and the 25 year old pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death in May for marrying against her family’s wishes. The poem of Mahadai…
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Strategic Plan for the Caribbean Community 2015 – 2019: Repositioning CARICOM
Why a new strategic plan and what do we hope to achieve A wide canvassing of views across the Caribbean Community told a clear message that there needs to be a refocussing, redirecting and reorganizing of the Community to move it forward and reignite the flames of integration. The Strategic Plan outlines the Strategic repositioning of the Community. The Caribbean…
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Communiqué Issued at The Conclusion of the Thirty-Fifth Regular Meeting of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, 1-4 July 2014, Dickenson Bay, Antigua And Barbuda
The Thirty-Fifth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Dickenson Bay, Antigua and Barbuda, from 1-4 July 2014. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne, chaired the proceedings. Other members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Rt.…
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CARICOM to get Debt Advocacy Team
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Debt Advocacy Team is to be appointed to campaign for debt relief and/or debt amelioration on behalf of highly indebted CARICOM Member States. This was one of the key outcomes of the Thirty-Fifth Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government which concluded in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday, 4 July…
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CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Corps – CARICOM Day Message “I Am CARICOM, You Are CARICOM, We Are CARICOM”
The vision of the leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) articulated forty one (41) years ago has translated in today’s mandate of achieving regional integration through engaging, promoting and providing opportunities to Caribbean Member States to collectively direct the way forward. Indeed, within CARICOM, a considerable percentage of our population is between the ages of 18-30. As noted in the…
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“Celebrating CARICOM” Day with the CARICOM song!
Forty one years ago (July 4, 1973) the founding fathers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) came together and signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Community. Today we celebrate this anniversary on “CARICOM Day”, a day we set aside to commemorate all things CARICOM. This year is even more special because the Region now has an official CARICOM Song…
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CARICOM to establish Commission to debate marijuana decriminalisation
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 4TH 2014 (CUOPM) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders including St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil l. Douglas, have agreed to the establishment of a Commission to further the debate on the decriminalisation of marijuana for medicinal purposes. CARICOM Secretary General His Excellency Irwin La Rocque told reporters that while the composition…
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Guyana to Receive $31.6 Million Loan to Improve Water, Sanitation
Guyana will be receiving just under $32 million in loans to strengthen and improve access to drinking water and sanitation services. The funding will come from a pair of sources; it includes $16.8 million from the Inter-American Development Bank along with support from the Caribbean Investment Fund of the European Union totaling $14.8 million. The initiative, dubbed the “Programme to…
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