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CARICOM pledges support for Guyana on its 54th Independence Anniversary
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has extended congratulations to the Government and People of Guyana as the country celebrates its 54th Anniversary of Independence on 26 May 2020. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque in a congratulatory message to Guyana’s President HE David Granger said the people of Guyana should be proud of this milestone in their history. He noted that the…
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CARICOM IMPACS And The United Kingdom Step Up The Fight Against COVID-19 By Donating Basic Sanitation Supplies To Prisons
The CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) with the generous support of the British High Commission, Port of Spain, answered the call to support the prison in Antigua and Barbuda by donating basic sanitation supplies to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The sanitation supplies included infrared thermometers, as well as cleaning products such as disinfectant,…
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Loss of mangroves, land for agriculture in focus as CARICOM observes International Biological Diversity Day
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat’s Human and Social Development chief, Dr Douglas Slater has drawn attention to the decline of land area for agricultural use and alarming levels of mangroves loss in the Region. He was at the time speaking at an inaugural webinar series: the Way Forward for the Caribbean in Shaping a Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, recently, which launched…
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Op-Ed: Caribbean island states need differentiated treatment due to COVID-19. Here’s why.*
Tourism-dependent, climate-vulnerable states need to respond to the devastation of COVID-19 with a hurricane season around the corner Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are characterised by their exposure to a variety of risks and limited capacity to deal with them when they occur. This is particularly true in the Eastern Caribbean, being especially prone to natural disasters that are up…
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As World observes International Biodiversity Day CARICOM calls for action to address biodiversity loss
Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, Dr Douglas Slater has called for actions to foster more ecosystem-based solutions to address biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation simultaneously. As CARICOM joined the global Community in celebrating International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22nd, Dr Slater reiterated the need for mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors; and working together at…
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CARICOM mounts Election Observation Mission to Suriname
In response to the request from the Government of the Republic of Suriname, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has fielded a CARICOM Election Observation Mission to monitor the general elections which will be held on Monday, 25 May 2020. The four-member Mission which arrived in Suriname on Monday, 18 May 2020 will be headed by Ms. Dora James, Supervisor of Elections of…
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STATEMENT – European Commission Publication of List of High Risk Jurisdictions with Strategic Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (AML-CFT) Deficiencies
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) deplores the latest attack by the European Commission on the economic well-being of some of our Member States who were named on 7th May 2020, in a list of third countries with strategic Anti-Money Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) deficiencies, and which would therefore be subject to enhanced due diligence measures by European Union…
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St Kitts And Nevis General Elections Set For June 5
The people of St. Kitts and Nevis vote in General Elections on June 5. The announcement was made in a national address on Monday by Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris who also said Nominations Day for candidates will be 27 May. The last general elections in St. Kitts and Nevis were held on 16 February 2015 when Prime Minister Harris…
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COVID-19CARICOM Chair addresses 73rd World Health Assembly
“The Caribbean region’s economies ranks among the most travel and tourism- dependent economies in the world. This has exposed our people and our economies in a way that we have not experienced since becoming independent nations more than fifty years ago in some instances.” The full address: ADDRESS TO THE 73rd WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY by THE HONOURABLE MIA MOTTLEY, PRIME MINISTER…
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Jamaica slashes budget to meet J$120 billion COVID costs – CARICOM BUSINESS
Jamaican Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has announced significant cuts in the Budget amid a steep decline in revenues because of the coronavirus. In tabling his First Supplementary Estimates in Parliament, Clarke said programmed expenses have been cut from $853.5 billion to $838.2 billion. The capital budget was slashed by 38% from $76.2 billion to $46.1 billion. This comes amid…
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