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Caribbean Climate Innovation Center launches in Trinidad
The Caribbean Climate Innovation Center (CCIC)—a hub designed to help clean technology ventures transform the region to a low-carbon economy and create green jobs—launched yesterday in Freeport, Trinidad & Tobago. The CCIC will offer financing, training, mentorship, and other services to a growing network of innovators in the areas of solar power, energy efficiency, water management, resource use efficiency, and…
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Team UNITY Leader Dr. Timothy Harris represents federation at historic unveiling of Sir Vivian Richards Statue
Team UNITY Leader Dr. Timothy Harris was among special dignitaries present at the historic unveiling of a statue in honor of West Indies Cricket legend Sir. Vivian Isaac Richards. Sir Vivian, also known as the “Master Blaster”, the Antigua & Barbuda, Leeward Islands and West Indies legend, was honored on Wednesday evening with a statue of himself at the Sir…
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Trinidad Opens Embassy in China
Trinidad and Tobago has officially opened an Embassy in China. The new Embassy opened in Beijing on Wednesday, inaugurated by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar during her official visit to China this week. The opening of the embassy was first announced in June 2013, in the context of the visit to the country by Chinese President Xi Jinping.…
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CARICOM and Canada Assist Suriname to Incorporate Regional Integration and the CSME into School Curricula
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Approximately four hundred teachers in Suriname will be trained on the operations of the Caribbean Community and CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The sessions begin on Monday 3 March, 2014 at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Paramaribo and will run until 24 March, 2014. The activity in Suriname falls under the CARICOM Trade…
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Spouses of Caricom Skilled Nationals can now work freely in Guyana
Caribbean Community (Caricom) nationals allowed to live and work in Guyana as Skilled Nationals will now be allowed to bring their spouses and dependants to live and work indefinitely. Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Thursday successfuly piloted an amendment to her country's Caribbean Community Free Entry of Skilled Nationals Act to now allow for the spouse of a skilled national…
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Governments of Dominica and Brazil Sign Visa Waiver Agreement
The governments of Dominica and Brazil have signed a new visa waiver agreement. The new agreement means residents of Dominica and Brazil can travel between the two countries without the need of visas. “I am glad to announce that from now on all Dominicans can go to Brazil without a visa as a tourist and I hope to get a…
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St. Kitts and Nevis condemns acts of violence in Venezuela
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, FEBRUARY 26TH 2014 (CUOPM) – The Government of St Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to international peace and security, democracy, and the rule of law, and has expressed concerned over the violent clashes between anti-and pro-government protestors in Venezuela. “We affirm both the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states, as…
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Caribbean Connectivity: CARCIP Urges Greater Regional Innovation
Three Eastern Caribbean countries are benefitting from an infrastructure development thrust that could usher in a new era of technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship for the region. The initiative is part of the World Bank-funded Caribbean Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP), coordinated by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU). A series of workshops rolling out in St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada are…
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Eight Caribbean countries to strengthen HIV programmes – UNAIDS
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday February 25, 2014, CMC – UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that eight regional countries have finalised specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programmes by making them more responsive to human rights. It said that the representatives from Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago met her last week for a…
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St. Kitts and Nevis congratulates St. Lucia on Independence 35
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, FEBRUARY 22ND 2014 (CUOPM) – The Government and people of the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis have expressed congratulations to the Government and citizens of St. Lucia on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of Independence. “I pray that our mutual friendship which is based on a shared heritage and commitment to freedom, peace and the…
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