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Ranking the Caribbean on Gender Equality
Which Caribbean countries have the highest level of gender equality? The World Economic Forum has released its latest Global Gender Gap Report, looking at how countries around the world fare when it comes to gender equality. The report examines a host of factors, including health and survival, educational attainment, economic participation and opportunity and political empowerment. “The rankings are designed…
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World’s hottest peppers produced and sold by Caribbean agriculture institute
ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad — The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) has been supplying Caribbean farmers with quality hot pepper seeds for the past 20 years. Currently, four main varieties are produced by CARDI and supplied through its distributor, Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Ltd, to agro retail outlets from Belize in Central America; Cayman Islands and Jamaica in the…
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Statement At The Conclusion of the Seventeenth Special Meeting of The Conference of Heads of Government of The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Public Health Challenges Port-Of-Spain Trinidad 4 November, 2014
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in special session in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 November, 2014, for deliberations on the two current public health challenges facing the Community: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); and the Chikungunya outbreak. Heads of Government expressed considerable concern, not just in relation to the possible health impact of the Ebola…
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History wil Judge us -US Ambassador tells PANCAP 13TH AGM Official Opening
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In what could only be described as a most memorable opening, the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) got underway in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, last evening 3 November 2014, under the chairmanship of PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director, Dereck Springer . Speakers from Guadeloupe, international development partners and…
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Government to adopt Red Stripe technology in Cassava Production
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 4, 2014 – Government will shortly be adopting the technology used by Red Stripe in its large-scale cassava production, so that an islandwide cassava industry can be sustained as the technology being being utilized is delivering the kind of yields that will make the industry economical. Minister of Agriculture, Derrick Kellier pointed out that with the Red…
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CXC to launch online store
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in collaboration with Macmillan will launch CXC’s online commercial presence called the CXC Store at http://www.cxc-store.com on Friday 7 November during a concert in Jamaica. The launch will be held at Jamaica College auditorium starting at 10:00 am with over 350 students from schools across Jamaica in attendance. The CXC online store http://www.cxc-store.com, will be…
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Former Prime Minister the Hon. Lester Bryant Bird to be confered the Honour of National Hero of Antigua and Barbuda on Monday
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – 1st November, 2014….. Preparations are well advanced for confering of the National Honour of Knight Companion of the Most Exalted Order of National Hero on Former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Parliamentary Representative of the St. John’s Rural East Constituency, the Hon. Lester Bryant Bird at the National Ceremonial Parade on Monday.…
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PANCAP to present Awards of Excellence at 13th AGM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Official Opening of the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) takes place at the Creole Beach Hotel, Guadeloupe on Monday evening, 03 November 2014. Deborah L. Birx, M.D., Ambassador‐at‐Large and Coordinator of the United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally will deliver the keynote…
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BVI to host inaugural OECS environmental sustainability meeting
ROAD, TOWN, BVI — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) ministers responsible for environmental portfolios will meet in Road Town, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands this week for their inaugural meeting since the Revised Treaty of Basseterre came into force in 2011. The meeting, preceded by the opening of an exhibition on climate change on Monday, opens on…
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