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Panama Keen To Cooperate with Barbados In Education
Panama is seeking to strengthen cooperation with Barbados by creating linkages in the area of education. This was expressed today as Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones, and officials of his Ministry met with Panama’s Minister of Education, Marcela Paredes de Vásquez, and her delegation, on the margins of the 36th Regular Meeting of the Conference of…
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Barbados And Panama Sign MOU
Barbados and the Republic of Panama now have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Bilateral Relations. The documents were signed and exchanged today during the 36th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. The meeting, which ends today, is being held the Hilton Barbados Resort, Needhams Point, St. Michael. Minister of Foreign Affairs and…
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Communique issued at the conclusion of the 36th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
The 36th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Bridgetown, Barbados, 2-4 July 2015. The Prime Minister of Barbados, the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart, Q.C; MP, chaired the proceedings. Other Members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne; the Prime…
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Stronger CARICOM Relations a top priority for Panama
President of Panama H.E. Juan Carlos Varela met with CARICOM Heads of Government during Saturday’s session of their 36th Regular Meeting at the Hilton Hotel, Barbados, and made a strong case for closer cooperation. “Strengthening Panama’s relations with CARICOM at all levels is a top priority for my Administration. Therefore, on behalf of my Government, at this moment I would…
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Focus conversation on what’s to be done to end AIDS: PM Harris tells Caribbean Launch of UNAIDS-Lancet Commission Report
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Timothy Harris, urged policy makers and practitioners in the Region to find the formula for scaling up investments in treatment and prevention that would make the greatest difference. This, he emphasized, required targeting the marginalized populations and those most at risk of the HIV infection, securing long term supplies…
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Address by Prime Minister St Kitts- Nevis, Hon Dr. Timothy Harris, CARICOM Lead Head for Human Resources Health and HIV -Caribbean Launch of UNAIDS- Lancet Commission Report
Caribbean Launch of UNAIDS- Lancet Commission Report Defeating AIDS-Achieving sustainable health Address by Prime Minister St Kitts- Nevis, Hon Dr. Timothy Harris, CARICOM Lead Head for Human Resources Health and HIV The UNAIDS-Lancet Report is indeed the high level analysis based on empirical evidence. It makes us deeply aware that this disease HIV and AIDS is far from over. At the same time it…
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CARICOM’s silence on Venezuela’s threat against Guyana should not be seen as reluctance -SG LaRoque
While The Commonwealth, the Organisation of American States and the United States government have all made known their condemnation of the actions by Venezuela, CARICOM which has its secretariat in Guyana, has offered very little. As the 36th Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government opens at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados, the regional body is still to offer a…
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CARICOM Chairman receives commemorative bat
Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma on Friday presented Prime Minister Freundel Stuart with a commemorative cricket bat of the historic 1950 West Indies tour of England. The presentation of the bat, which bears the signatures of the players, was made in the presence of other CARICOM leaders, as they met with the Commonwealth Secretary General at a special breakfast meeting…
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29 Jamaican spokespersons join regional Single Market Bureau
Twenty nine Jamaicans from public and private sectors and civil society were officially installed as members of the prestigious CARICOM Single Market Spokespersons Bureau on Tuesday March 17 after two days of training at the Eden Gardens Wellness Resort and Spa. The training, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Jamaica in partnership with the CARICOM…
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HIV/AIDS: Punitive Laws, Stigma Drive Vulnerability To Infection – Ban
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says the HIV and AIDS epidemic is made worse by punitive laws and stigma which drive vulnerability to infection and block access to life-saving treatment. In a speech he delivered at the launch of UNAIDS and Lancet Commission Report: “Defeating AIDS -Advancing Global Health’’, in Bridgetown, Barbados on Friday, Ban said homophobia threatened both human rights…
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