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WE MUST FACE HEAD ON, THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD AND NUTRITION INSECURITY – AMBASSADOR IRWIN LA ROCQUE, CARICOM ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary-General Trade and Economic Integration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has emphasised the urgency for action on food and nutrition security in the Region. Delivering remarks at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Policy and Food Nutrition Security in the Caribbean on Monday November 30, 2009, in…
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STOP TALKING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY – FAO REPRESENTATIVE IN GUYANA TELLS AGRICULTURE SPECIALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) of the United Nations in Guyana, on Monday charged specialists in the agriculture and trade arena to take affirmative action for food and nutrition security in the Region. She was addressing delegates at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Food…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS COMMIT TO STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors on Monday, with the strong support from directors of youth affairs resolved to approach their mandate more seriously, and work assiduously to implement strategies to strengthen and sustain the CARICOM Youth Ambassador Programme (CYAP). Twenty-seven youth ambassadors met jointly with their directors of youth affairs at the Courtyard Marriott…
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STATEMENT BY THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO) MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE, 30 NOVEMBER – 2 DECEMBER 2009, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
This 7th WTO Ministerial Conference offers an opportunity to reaffirm our collective commitment to a trading system that brings real benefits to all WTO Members through a genuinely inclusive, transparent and multilateral process. In this context, there are a number of issues that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would wish to highlight. First, CARICOM is exceedingly distressed by attempts to recalibrate…
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CARICOM LEADERS PRESS COMMONWEALTH G20 MEMBERS FOR A VOICE IN DISCUSSIONS AS AUSTRALIA MAKES $60 MIL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Australia will make some $60 million (AUS) available over four years to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for cooperation in a number of areas of special mutual interest. These areas are: climate change, disaster risk reduction and emergency management; regional integration including trade facilitation; education, including in the fields of science and technology, provision of…
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WE MUST FACE HEAD ON, THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD AND NUTRITION INSECURITY – AMBASSADOR IRWIN LA ROCQUE, CARICOM ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary-General Trade and Economic Integration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has emphasised the urgency for action on food and nutrition security in the Region. Delivering remarks at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Policy and Food Nutrition Security in the Caribbean on Monday November 30, 2009, in…
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CARICOM TAX EXPERTS LOOK AT REGIONAL DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A two-day seminar aimed at reviewing how the ten-year old Intra-CARICOM Double Taxation Agreement (ICDTA) was functioning got underway Monday morning at the Grand Coastal Inn in Guyana. Dr. Maurice Odle, Economic Adviser to the Secretary-General of CARICOM welcomed the Heads of Tax Administrations and other representatives to the seminar and urged that the…
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STOP TALKING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY – FAO REPRESENTATIVE IN GUYANA TELLS AGRICULTURE SPECIALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) of the United Nations in Guyana, on Monday charged specialists in the agriculture and trade arena to take affirmative action for food and nutrition security in the Region. She was addressing delegates at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Food…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS COMMIT TO STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors on Monday, with the strong support from directors of youth affairs resolved to approach their mandate more seriously, and work assiduously to implement strategies to strengthen and sustain the CARICOM Youth Ambassador Programme (CYAP). Twenty-seven youth ambassadors met jointly with their directors of youth affairs at the Courtyard Marriott in Paramaribo,…
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CARICOM YOUTH OFFICIALS TO CRITIQUE YOUTH REPORT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than seventy-five youth representatives are meeting in Suriname to give a final critique to the report of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) in the run up to the Special Summit of CARICOM Heads of Government set for the end of January, 2010. The joint meeting of CARICOM Youth Affairs Directors, Youth…
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