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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Representatives of several Caribbean countries will meet here on Tuesday as they seek to ensure that the concerns of the region are articulated at the 2014 Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa next September. The three-day meeting here will determine common concerns, exchange experiences and lessons learned, and discuss regional perspectives and positions…
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CMC Feature-CARIBBEAN-POLITICS-40 years later, regional leaders gather at the birthplace of CARICOM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Irwin la Rocque is very passionate about the regional integration movement, CARICOM. He has to be. As Secretary General of the 15-member grouping, he defends it against accusation from certain sections of the region that instead of CARICOM, it should be named “CARIGONE”. But as the regional leaders get ready to assemble in Trinidad…
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Good report for the Caribbean
GENEVA, CMC – Latin America and Caribbean region has met a number of targets for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including halving the extreme poverty rate, according to a United Nations report released here on Monday. The report noted that the proportion of people in the region living on less than US$1.25 a day fell from 12 per cent…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING OPENS WEDNESDAY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which opens in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar assumed the six-month rotational Chairmanship on 1 July. The Meeting, which…
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Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM Transportation – a major area of focus
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to…
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YOUTHS TWEET FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) United, cohesive, productive, enabling, progressive! That’s the kind of Community in which youth of the Region wish to live. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) youths took to the twittersphere on Sunday to share their views on the Community and their role in cementing regional integration. In the first CARICOM Twitter Relay held by the CARICOM Youth…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING TO MULL NEW DIRECTION FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The effects of the current economic climate on Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major agenda item at the upcoming Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM. The meeting begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and…
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Nero repeats in CARICOM 10k race
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Tonya Nero of Trinidad and Tobago retained her title and the Secretary-General’s Trophy at the CARICOM 10k run in her homeland on Saturday. Ms Nero had captured the title last year in Saint Lucia and repeated with a time of 37minutes 22 seconds watched by a small gathering including CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.…
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THIRTY-FOURTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to inclusiveness,…
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CARICOM 10k Runs Off On Saturday In Port Of Spain
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Athletes from eight Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will compete at the 9th Annual CARICOM 10k Road Race which takes place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday 29 June. The race has become the precursor to the annual Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM.…
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