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Turks and Caicos signs on to CARICOM Advance Passenger Information System
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Deputy premier and minister with responsibilities for the ministry of border control and employment, Sean Astwood, led a delegation from the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) to Bridgetown, Barbados, for the signing of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) with the United States. The signing took place between the US ambassador to Barbados, the…
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MARPOL Implementation in Caribbean a Concern
Grand Cayman was the site of a pivotal conference on “Implementing MARPOL in the Caribbean” held on May 2nd under the auspices of WISTA (Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association) Cayman Islands and the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA). The event attracted subject matter experts in the field to develop a strategy for greater implementation of MARPOL (the…
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CARICOM heightens preparation for UN oceans Conference
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CARICOM Secretariat – Small Island Developing States (SIDS) including those of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are heightening their preparations ahead of the United Nations (UN) Conference on the sustainable use of the oceans (SDG14), scheduled for June 5-9 in New York. CARICOM Member States and the CARICOM Secretariat participated in a forum from 29-31 March 2017, in Jeju,…
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Patients assured safe, high quality drugs with establishment of Caribbean Regulatory System
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. April 7 2017. The establishment of a Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) will improve conditions for patients in the Region to receive safe, efficacious, high quality drugs. Speaking at the Opening Ceremony of a Capacity-Building workshop on the Regulation of Medicines earlier this week, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr. C…
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Acting Chief Medical Officer to chair SKN National Commission on Marijuana
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, April 5, 2017 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, announced the establishment of a National Commission on Marijuana/Cannabis sativa, to be headed by acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Hazel Laws. Prime Minister Harris, speaking at his monthly…
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Empower Women, Experience Prosperity, UN Official Tells Region Read more: http://www.caribbean360.com/news/empower-women-experience-prosperity-un-official-tells-region#ixzz4dJ39Ssng
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday April 2, 2017 – As regional states search for ways to grow their struggling economies, a United Nations official is telling governments they have access to a resource that could help bring about strong turnaround. Deputy Regional Director at the UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, Lara Blanco, said economic empowerment of women would lead…
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Caribbean Safe School Ministerial Forum opens in Antigua
High level delegates from at least 12 Caribbean countries are in Antigua & Barbuda to discuss measures that can be implemented to improve the safety and security of education facilities within the region. The participants are ministers of education and other representatives who yesterday commenced their first session of the inaugural Caribean Safe School Ministerial Forum at the Halcyon Cove…
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CARICOM Human Resource Development Strategy gets attention of Regional Education Ministers
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Education Ministers met in Guyana, Friday, with much of their attention focused on a Human Resource Development strategy to meet the Region’s requirements for its 21st century economy and society. The Ministers, joined by senior education officials and other regional education stakeholders at the Thirty-second Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), were scheduled…
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Grenada receives grant for geothermal energy development
March 22, 2017, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a grant of US$231,630 to the Government of Grenada to build its capacity for planning and implementation of its geothermal energy development roadmap. The resources are from the Global Environment Facility through the Inter-American Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Facility for the Eastern Caribbean with the CDB. Successful development…
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Work moves apace to develop Regional Energy Efficiency Building Code
A Regional Project Team (RPT), established to develop a Regional Energy Efficiency Building Code (REEBC), among other mandates, will be launched in Kingston, Jamaica, next week. The launch and the first face-to-face Working Meeting with the contracted consultant will be held 30-31 March, at the Jamaica Bureau of Standards. Nine Member States – Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize,…
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