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Antigua Hosts National Quality Infrastructure Dialogue on Agriculture
The second national dialogue on quality infrastructure (QI) came off in Antigua last month, providing the Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of Standards (ABBS) and local officials with a clear picture of the state of the agriculture sector as relates quality and standards. Held at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium on November 13, 2014, Director of the ABBS, Mrs. Dianne…
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CARICOM Cuba Leaders to talk trade in Havana
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Economic and Trade Relations will be among the issues discussed at the Fifth Summit of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba which takes place in Havana, Cuba on Monday 8 December. The Summit will be preceded on Sunday by a meeting of the Foreign Ministers. In accordance with the…
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Belize observes World AIDS Day with goal of getting to ZeroHIV
Belize joins the rest of the world on December 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day with a single goal of “Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS- related deaths.” To raise awareness on World AIDS Day the National HIV Programme of the Ministry of Health partnered with the National AIDS Commission (NAC), Pan American Social Marketing…
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New passports to be re-issued at no cost to holders
The rules governing international travel are ever-evolving and every country, including St. Kitts and Nevis, has the right to determine who will and will not enter its territory, and St. Kitts-Nevis respects this. So says St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, who added that in keeping with his Government’s commitment to ensuring the…
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OAS launches workshop on drug treatment courts in the Caribbean
The Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday inaugurated the third and final two-day regional training workshop on the Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) in Bridgetown, Barbados. Participants in the workshop organized by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the OAS, included judicial, health and drug treatment officials from Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago,…
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Faster HIV Testing Process Coming To Nevis Soon
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (December 02, 2014) – Persons unaware of their HIV status, will soon have the opportunity to test at select health care providers on Nevis for same day results. The service to be introduced shortly, is a new initiative planned by the Ministry of Health on Nevis. The disclosure came from Medical Officer of Health/HIV Clinical Coordinator…
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OAS launches workshop on drug treatment courts in the Caribbean
The Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday inaugurated the third and final two-day regional training workshop on the Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) in Bridgetown, Barbados. Participants in the workshop organized by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the OAS, included judicial, health and drug treatment officials from Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago,…
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CTO Statement on New Changes in the British APD
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (3 Dec 2014) -The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) welcomes today’s announcement by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, of further changes to the Air Passenger Duty (APD) from next May. The Chancellor has announced in his December 3rd Autumn Statement the abolition of APD for children under the age of 12 from next May, one month…
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CARREX to be fully operational by year end
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Rapid Alert System for Exchange of Information on Dangerous (non-food) Consumer Goods (CARREX) is expected to be completely operational at the national and regional levels by the end of 2014. Representatives from national standards bureaux in CARICOM are being trained at a Regional Workshop in Suriname on matters relating to the CARREX…
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