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  • April 16, 2012
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    CARICOM ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS MEET TO TACKLE RIO+20 AGENDA

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 39th Special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), slated for Georgetown, Guyana on Friday, will provide the last ministerial platform for environment and sustainable development ministers to frame a regional strategic approach for the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Set for the Rio de Janeiro on…

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  • March 12, 2012
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    CARICOM LAUNCHES CONSUMER PROTECTION SERVICE

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has launched an online system which allows consumers in 14 Member States to alert authorities on dangerous products which they detect in the market. It is called the CARICOM Rapid Exchange System for Dangerous non-food Consumer Goods, (CARREX) and was developed in response to concerns voiced by consumer bodies of…

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  • February 7, 2012
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    CARICOM to set up Task Force on Sports Tourism

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     In the wake of calls to harness the resources of sports for development, the CARICOM Council on Human and Social Development (COHSOD) at their 22nd Meeting in Georgetown, last week, agreed to establish a Regional Task Force on Sports Tourism to develop a strategy for harnessing the Region’s potential in sports. The COHSOD, which…

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  • February 3, 2012
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    PRESENTATION BY THE CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), DR. THE HONOURABLE TIMOTHY HARRIS, SENIOR MINISTER AND MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MARINE RESOURCES, CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND CONSTITUENCY EMPOWERMENT OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, AT T

    ​CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Your Excellency Alfredo Moreno, Foreign Minister of Chile; Foreign Ministers and Heads of Delegation of CARICOM Member States; Senior officials of Chile and CARICOM States and of the CARICOM Secretariat; Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen; Representatives of the Media. It is a pleasure to be here in Santiago, Chile on the occasion of this,…

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  • January 22, 2012
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    CARPHA TO COLLABORATE WITH CARIBBEAN TOURIST ORGANIZATION ON QUALITY TOURISM

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) which started its operations this month under Interim Director, Dr. Jerome Walcott, former Minister of Health, Barbados was a subject of discussion at the Council of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, held during the Market Place Conference in Nassau The Bahamas on 22 January 2012 After receiving a presentation…

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  • December 17, 2011
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    SURINAMESE YOUTH PROGRAMME A REGIONAL BEST PRACTICE

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque deemed the Surinamese Youth programmes as a regional Best Practice. On the second day of his official visit to Suriname, the Secretary-General was brought up to date on the activities and plans of Surinamese youth and was particularly impressed by the exciting programmes outlined to…

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  • December 14, 2011
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    CARICOM CHOLERA-RESPONSE PROJECT UNDERWAY IN HAITI

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is executing a project to improve sanitation infrastructure and to sensitize residents of a Cite Soleil community in Haiti in the practice of safe personal and community hygiene. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project is being undertaken in support of Haiti’s national strategy to combat the cholera…

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  • December 12, 2011
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    Local sugar production up – $154.3m loan provides lifeline for industry

    SUGAR PRODUCED from the 2010-2011 sugar cane crop was 139,594 tonnes, an increase over the 122,104 tonnes produced in the 2009-2010 crop. The amount represents a turnaround of a downward trend in sugar production since 2007 when the industry produced 164,387 tonnes of sugar. The total represents the seventh largest amount of sugar produced in any one season over the…

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  • December 10, 2011
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    CARICOM Second Annual Meeting on NCDs set for Trinidad and Tobago

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) / IADB Regional surveillance project will hold its Second Meeting of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Focal Points and Chief Medical Officers in Trinidad and Tobago on 11- 13 December, 2011 This…

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  • December 5, 2011
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    CARIFESTA IS BACK; SURINAME WILL HOST

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is now a fait accompli. Suriname will host the 11th staging of the Caribbean premier festival of the creative and performing arts in 2013; this after their first successful hosting in 2003. Dr Hilary Brown, CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager for Culture and Community Development, made this announcement at the 21st Meeting…

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