Year: 2014
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PANCAP HOLDS JUSTICE FOR ALL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Consultation on Justice for All and Human Rights Agenda takes place on 9-11 April 2014, at The Jamaica Pegasus, Kingston, Jamaica. The three-day dialogue advances the Caribbean human rights agenda and is the culmination of a series of national consultations held over the past six months in several Caribbean countries. These consultations…
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Data for Action Measuring Prevalence to Respond to Gender-Based Violence
Data for Action: Measuring Prevalence to Respond to Gender-Based Violence Despite notable efforts by authorities, service providers and academia to record and track the incidence of gender-based violence (GBV) in the Caribbean, lack of comprehensive, systematic, nationally-owned data remains a serious bottleneck in responding to and preventing GBV, including its most prevalent form – that of violence against women. Subsequently,…
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OAS Secretary General Participates in World Economic Forum for Latin America
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) today arrived in Panama where he will take part in the World Economic Forum for Latin America, being held until tomorrow in the Panamanian capital. The leader of the hemispheric Organization exchanged views with senior authorities from the region in private sessions on the most important issues that concern the…
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Delegates from 20 Countries Participate in the First Americas Competitiveness Exchange on Innovation
Delegates from 20 Countries Participate in the First Americas Competitiveness Exchange on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, co-organized by the OAS Representatives of 20 countries in the Americas are taking part beginning today in the First Americas Competitiveness Exchange on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, an activity co-organized by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United States Government, through the Inter-American Competitiveness…
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OAS Assistant Secretary General Meets with Entrepreneurs in Sao Paulo
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, has called, in a meeting with businessmen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for strengthening public-private dialogue in the countries of the Americas to be able to effectively address the global economic slowdown and to continue the progress made in reducing poverty in recent years. The meeting, organized by…
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Trinidad Names New Tourism Minister
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has appointed Senator Gerry Hadeed as the country’s new Minister of Tourism. Hadeed, who had been serving as the country’s Minister of Communications, succeeds former Tourism Minister Chandresh Sharma, who resigned on Monday after allegations that he had assaulted a woman. Hadeed’s appointment makes him the fourth tourism minister in Trinidad since Persad-Bissessar’s…
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Jamaica, China Sign Framework Agreement For Transshipment Hub
The government of Jamaica has signed a framework agreement with the state-owned China Harbour Engineering Company to develop a transshipment hub in the Portland Bight area. The selection of the environmentally sensitive Portland Bight area has led to controversy within Jamaica, as it is classified as a Protected Area. Works Minister Dr Omar Davies said regulations would be adhered to…
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Bahamas Wants Regional Centre of Excellence in Financial Services
The creation of a regional centre of excellence in financial services is being touted as the way forward if the region is to face the challenges and volatility of the global world of financial services. This is the view of the Minister for Financial Services here, Ryan Pinder, who told delegates attending the 3rd Caribbean Conference on the International Financial…
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PM Douglas in St. Lucia for the Third Global Biennial Small States Conference
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, MARCH 25TH 2014 (CUOPM) St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, who led a Commonwealth High-level Mission on Debt and Financing Challenges of Small States in discussions with the heads of the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank late last year, is in…
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Ambassador Paola Amadei on EU’s Support in Fight Against Money Laundering
The Caribbean has been reassured of the support of the European Union as regional Government’s implement measures to combat money laundering. The EU’s Ambassador to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands – Paola Amadei, told delegates attending the 3rd Caribbean Conference on the International Financial Services Sector, hosted by The Caribbean Export Development Agency…
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