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Guyana sending largest contingent to CARIFESTA X1
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – AS the days draw near to the largest single cultural event in the Region, the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA), Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports, Frank Anthony, yesterday, announced that Guyana would be taking the largest delegation to the festival, and the estimated budget will be $20M. He told a press conference yesterday that since…
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CARIBBEAN-TRANSPORTATION : Case study competition on road safety launched
WASHINGTON, CMC – With the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Training Centre for Local Actors and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (CIFAL-UNITAR) have launched the first case study competition on road safety for universities in Latin America and the Caribbean. CIFAL-UNITAR has called for case studies to “promote the academic process of creating,…
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IICA head endorses ILO rural economy plan
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian – Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA) Victor Villalobos is endorsing a decision by International Labour Organization (ILO) head Guy Ryder to pay greater attention to the “rural economy” in the context of labour standards and rights. In an interview with T&T Guardian, Villalobos described the strategy as…
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T&T PM wants think tank on regional security
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday suggested a “regional think tank” be established to examine multiple security threats facing the region. She was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 34th Caricom heads of Government conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s. Fourteen heads of government of the region are attending the conference. Such an approach, she said, would…
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Grenada PM calls for Caricom free movement
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian – Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is calling for the removal of aliens’ landholding requirements for Caricom nationals. Mitchell made the appeal during his address at Wednesday’s opening of the 34th Caricom Heads of Government Meeting at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s. He said it would be a significant first step…
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Integration more urgently needed than ever – President Ramotar at re-enactment of Treaty of Chaguara
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana Chronicle – FORTY years subsequent to the leaders of Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica affixing their signatures to the Treaty of Chaguaramas, establishing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the present generation of Caribbean leaders took more than two hours to re-enact the signing, symbolically, in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago. CARICOM leaders have…
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As Chaguaramas Treaty re-signed
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian – Leaders hope for unity After 40 years, the Treaty of Chaguaramas, signed in 1973 to create Caribbean unity but still largely unsuccessful, was signed again yesterday by 15 Caricom prime ministers at the same place it was initially signed—the Convention Centre, Chaguaramas. Making a strong renewed call for Caribbean unity, the heads…
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CARICOM-SUMMIT-Regional leaders re-enact treaty
Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders Thursday paid glowing tribute to the founding fathers of the regional integration movement insisting that CARICOM has a major role to play in the socio-economic development of the region. Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller told her colleagues from the 15-member grouping that “integration is a process not an event” while the in-coming…
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CARICOM-SUMMIT-CARICOM celebrates 40th birthday
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Thursday marked its 40th anniversary boasting of being the longest surviving integration grouping among developing countries. In a message to mark the occasion, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin la Rocque said that 15-member grouping is second only to the European Union in global terms and that the “four pillars upon which…
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National EPA Implementation Plans a Key Milestone
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Gains have been made regarding Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), since the signing of the landmark trade and development accord by fourteen CARIFORUM States in October 2008 and by the fifteenth state, Haiti, in December 2009. With Validation…
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