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Celebrating Women In Caribbean Development: Conferring the 2014 CARICOM Triennial Award
Introduction How important it is to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes, the late Maya Angelou once reminded. Come July 1, 2014, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will contextually observe this reminder when it confers its prestigious Triennial Award for Women on another distinguished woman of the soil, Ms. Marion Bethel. Ms. Bethel, a Bahamian attorney, scholar, poet, film-maker, creative writer,…
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Remarks by Minister of National Mobilization, Social Development, Family Services, Gender Affairs, Persons with Disabilities and Youth in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Hon. Frederick Stephenson during a CEBO Partnership Meeting with Representatives fr
Today we meet to discuss youth entrepreneurial development in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with stakeholder partners locally and CARICOM Secretariat. The Creative Employment Business Opportunity (CEBO) program is a CARICOM Secretariat initiative that is funded by USAID, UNDP, the Governments of Spain and Japan and is spearheaded nationally by Governments in CARICOM Member States. The CEBO program targets vulnerable…
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Caribbean Export Creates Opportunities for Regional Trade between CARIFORUM and the FCOR & OCT Territories
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) hosted a Business Forum on June 25th, 2014 for private sector firms as well as other key stakeholders from CARIFORUM, the French Caribbean Outermost regions (FCORs) and EU Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) in the Caribbean, with the aim of facilitating greater trade between the territories on the island of Grand Cayman. Despite…
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Dominican Republic Gets $100 Million Loan For Health Sector
The Dominican Republic will soon be receiving a $100 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank following its approval this week. The loan aims to boost health care in the country through “investments designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of spending in the sector and improving the quality of services aimed at the country’s poorest people,” according to a…
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US Vice President announces launch of Caribbean Energy Security Initiative
News Americas Now, New York, NY, June 24, 2014- United States Vice President Joe Biden recently announced the launch of the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative. The initiative consists of a portfolio of activities designed with the objective of supporting the Caribbean on energy. The Caribbean Energy Security Initiative includes (i) increasing access to finance, good governance and diversification, (ii) transforming…
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Prosperity and Security focus of 8th Caribbean-UK Ministerial Forum
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Foreign Ministers of CARICOM and the Dominican Republic and Premiers from the UK overseas territories met in London on 16-17 June 2014 for their biennial high-level talks with the Foreign Office Minister for the Caribbean and other UK Government Ministers. According to Ambassador Colin Granderson, CARICOM Secretariat Assistant Secretary General for Foreign and Community…
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Jamaica Set to Launch Internet Exchange Point in August
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is expected to benefit significantly from an Internet exchange point facility, which the ministry of science, technology, energy and mining expects to have in place by August. The IXP enables Internet traffic-routing within the country where the provision exists, instead of through external providers, as currently is the case with Jamaica. State minister in the ministry,…
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Raising consciousness is itself a big win – Dr. Hilary Brown on Reparations for Native Genocide and
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Raising the consciousness of CARICOM nationals regarding issues related to Reparations for Native Genocide Slavery is, by itself, a win. Those sentiments were expressed by Programme Manager for Culture and Community Development Dr. Hilary Brown during her presentation on the matter at the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) held at the…
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Eighth UK-Caribbean Forum London, 16-17 June 2014 ‘A Partnership for Prosperity’
We, the Foreign Ministers and representatives of the United Kingdom (UK) and Caribbean governments met at Lancaster House in London on 16 and 17 June 2014 for the eighth UK-Caribbean Ministerial Forum under the theme “A Partnership for Prosperity”. The UK-Caribbean Forum was first held in Nassau in 1998 and, since that date, has been the principle platform for high-level…
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