Year: 2016
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Ministry of Trade Facilitates Public Awareness about the Caricom Skills Certificate
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 11, 2016 (SKNIS): The Ministry of International Trade in collaboration with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit, hosted the first in a series of consultation and information sharing sessions with a public sensitization forum on the CARICOM Skills Certificate at the University of the West Indies Open Campus on Thursday, March 10. Mrs. Jasemin…
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Antibiotics resistance – a growing concern for CARICOM
Community Institutions issue Joint Statement The CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) and the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) have expressed concern about the new global threat of antibiotics resistance. In a Joint Statement issued on the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day to be observed on 15 March 2016, the CARICOM institutions explained the associated challenges and dangers…
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PANCAP Convenes Fourth Annual National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners Meeting
The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Caribbean Office and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), will convene the Fourth Annual Meeting of National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners under the theme “Universal Access…
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Dominica develops Draft National Agriculture Policy, Action Plan
The CARICOM Secretariat, under the Agriculture Policy Programme (APP), is financing the development of a Policy and Action Plan for the Commonwealth of Dominica’s agriculture sector. This process, which is being led by the Ministry of Agriculture of Dominica and an APP-supported local consultant, has, to date, developed a first draft document which will be the subject of validation meetings…
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Premier Amory calls for further education on CSME
The Honourable Vance Amory, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Labour, is of the view that there is further need for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis to be educated on the benefits of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). Speaking at the opening ceremony of The Free Movement Regimes of the Caribbean Community Workshop on Thursday…
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CARICOM continually accesses performance -SG
As International Development Partners (IDPs) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet to examine the priority areas for development in the Community and to match the IDPs interests and resources with those priorities, the IDPs have been assured that CARICOM continually assesses its performance. CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque told the opening of the Fourth High-Level Donor Forum, underway at the…
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CARICOM, Australia strengthen ties
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Australia continue to strengthen an already rewarding relationship, which among other things, has seen 128 CARICOM nationals benefitting from major scholarship programmes and leadership awards. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Wednesday 9 March accepted the Letters of Credence from new Australian Ambassador to CARICOM, Mr. John Pilbeam, at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.…
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Saint Lucian Tertiary Students Head to Suriname
The CARICOM Secretariat is winding down the project ‘Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotion’ with the first of the final three missions for 2016 getting underway this Monday, March 14. Nineteen Saint Lucian tertiary students from the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) and one CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) are traveling to Suriname for the week-long mission. They are…
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CARICOM Secretariat leverages energy efficiency with Energy Monitoring Equipment in collaboration with GIZ / German Development Cooperation
The CARICOM Secretariat will accelerate the energy and financial savings that have already been achieved over the past twelve months in 2015 through the utilisation of new energy monitoring equipment that has been provided by the GIZ REETA programme in terms of the overall Development Co-operation between the German Government and the CARICOM Secretariat. The new energy monitoring equipment is…
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Caribbean observes international women’s day
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 8, CMC – Caribbean countries Tuesday joined the international community in observing International Women’s Day with various messages urging support for women, even as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicating that the gender wage gap remaining “an obstacle to women’s economic autonomy and to overcoming poverty and inequality in the region”. ECLAC…
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