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COHSOD focuses on education, children
The Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) will focus its discussions on education and children when it convenes tomorrow at the CARICOM Secretariat. The theme of the two-day meeting is ‘Safeguarding our Region’s future, reshaping education for the Twenty-First century”. The main objective of the Meeting is to provide an opportunity for Ministers responsible for Education and Children’s Issues,…
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UNESCO conference explores reparations
Basseterre, St. Kitts – (SKNIS): A two-day conference hosted by the St. Kitts and Nevis UNESCO National Commission and forming part of the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of the UNESCO International Scientific Slave Route Project, has reopened the dialogue on the negro legacy, including the matter of reparations for the descendants of the enslaved. The conference was held under…
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At Ethiopia Conference on Financing… President Granger champions global action for sustainable development
ON Saturday, President David Granger left the shores of Guyana for Ethiopia as chief of the Guyana delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, the centre of Ethiopia’s economic and political life. “This Third International Conference on Financing for Development… must make a fundamental contribution to the thrust towards greater global cooperation,” President Granger…
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Statement By H.E. Honourable Frederick A. Mitchell, M.P., Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, The Bahamas At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14 July, 2015
Allow me first to join previous speakers in expressing my sincere gratitude to the Government and people of Ethiopia for the warm hospitality my delegation and I have received since our arrival in this beautiful city of Addis Ababa. At home our brothers and sisters in locks dream of coming to this city. It looms large in their imagination. …
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High CARICOM Expectations for UN Financing for Development Conference
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is attaching great importance to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday. CARICOM Heads of Government at their recent summit in Barbados stated that they; “…looked forward to the identification of the financial resources, including new resources, required to assist developing countries in addressing their major development challenges,…
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CARICOM considers debt relief proposal
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Caricom is considering a proposal for the region to pursue gradual write-off of its multilateral debt as a means of economic prosperity. The debt relief strategy was put forward by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the 36th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held recently…
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Caribbean Development Bank Partners with the World Bank Group to Build Public Procurement Capacity in the Region
Bridgetown, Barbados – July 9, 2015 – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced the creation of a Regional Procurement Centre that aims to improve the efficiency and transparency of public spending across its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs). The Centre will provide high-quality, relevant, accredited education for procurement professionals in the Caribbean, which is tailored to the specific needs…
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Civil Society has Vital Role to Play in Post-2015 Development Agenda
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 8 2015 (IPS) – “The action of the private sector can make or break the post-2015 development agenda,” Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, said in his opening remarks at a side event hosted in the context of a high-level political forum at the U.N. on Tuesday. The event entitled “Involving civil society…
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Regional Cultural Committee issues Statement on DR actions
STATEMENT FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD MEETING OF CARICOM’S REGIONAL CULTURAL COMMITTEE REGARDING RECENT ACTIONS BY THE STATE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC The Regional Cultural Committee, -Acknowledging its role as the vanguard and custodian of cultural development in CARICOM; -Acknowledging and recognising that the culture of the people of the region is deeply rooted in our diasporic history and is therefore central…
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Barbados and Hong Kong sign air services agreement
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday July 10, 2015 – Barbados and Hong Kong have inked an Air Services Agreement. The deal “provides the framework for the provision of international air services between Hong Kong and Barbados and opens new doors for cooperation in tourism and trade between the two countries”, according to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Barbados to the People’s Republic of…
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