Year: 2016
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PANCAP Partners Commit to High Impact Cost Effective Interventions For Sustaining HIV Response
Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) partners committed to implementing high impact cost effective interventions to sustain national and regional responses. This commitment was made at the Fourth Annual Meeting of National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners, which concluded today, 17th March 2016 in Trinidad and Tobago. The meeting’s participants were challenged to identify the…
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Remarks by the Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean And Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque at the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Third Meeting of the CARIFORUM Council of Ministers GEORGETOWN, Guyana
In welcoming you all to this Meeting of the Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM, allow me to extend a special greeting to those Ministers attending their first meeting of this Council. Included among them is today’s Chairman, the Honourable Jean Max Bellerive of Haiti. Also attending their first Meeting of this Council are the Honourable Paul Greene, Minister of Trade,…
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CARIFORUM meeting to address serious concerns of Guyana, the region- Foreign Affairs Minister
Georgetown, GINA, March 16, 2016 Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge indicated that the 23rd Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM meeting will discuss a number of items that are of special interest to Guyana. The meeting opens on Thursday, March 17 at the Marriott Hotel, Georgetown. While Guyana is hosting the meeting, it would be Chaired by the Republic of Haiti.…
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CRFM, Japan experts discuss impact of fisheries co-management project
Three representatives of the Japan-funded Caribbean Fisheries Co-management Project (CARIFICO) discussed the progress of the multi-million-dollar project with representatives of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) on an official visit to Belize on Monday, March 14 and Tuesday, March 15. Mr. Milton Haughton, CRFM Executive Director, met with Mr. Masaru Honda, Team Leader and Chief Advisor in the Fisheries Department…
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Historic Exhibition of Caribbean Animation at IDB Washington DC
In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of Animae Caribe Festival, Founder and Creative Director Camille Selvon Abrahams was asked by the Inter-American Development Bank to collaborate on an exhibition of Caribbean animations submitted to the festival over the last fifteen years. The twenty hand selected shorts will be exhibited at the IDB Head Office Conference Centre in Washington DC from…
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Four CARICOM countries to participate in project to reduce salt consumption
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – Four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been chosen to conduct social marketing training and technical assistance to reduce daily salt intake. The project in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and Jamaica, is being led by the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) Salt Smart Consortium, acting as the secretariat, supported by Healthy…
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Now in French: The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas
First it was in only English. There Dutch. Now thanks to the Caribbean Regional Information and Translation Institute (CRITI) there is also a French version of The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) including the CSME. On Monday evening, Chair of the Advisory Committee, CRITI, Ms. Annette Tjon Sie Fat and Executive Director Mr. Hendrik Alimahomed made a…
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Guyana to host 23rd CARIFORUM Council of Ministers Meeting
Georgetown, GINA, March 14, 2016 Foreign Affairs Ministers of CARIFORUM are to meet in Guyana on March 17. This is for the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM). Discussions will focus on the implementation and programming of the 10th and 11th European Development Fund (EDF). Between the 10th and 11th EDF, Guyana would…
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St. Lucia to host regional telecommunications conference
CASTRIES, St. Lucia Mar 13, CMC – St. Lucia will this week host a telecommunications conference that will attract delegates from across the globe. During International Communications Technology Week from March 14-18 – heads of Regional and International Organizations, Ministers, Commissioners of Police, Attorneys General, Directors of Public Prosecution, ICT Personnel will among other things, agree on a regional approach…
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CARICOM, Kazakhstan sign support grant agreement
A US$770,000 grant support package will become available to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States from the Republic of Kazakhstan to strengthen capacity in the areas of climate change and sustainable development. CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Ambassador of Kazakhstan to CARICOM, H.E. Mr. Konstantin Zhigalov signed the agreement of financial support on Thursday 10 March 2016 at the Marriot…
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