Areas of Work

  • December 5, 2011
    431

    CARICOM TO CONSULT ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN

      (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat has embarked on a series of stakeholder consultations in five Member States – Belize, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines – to solicit feedback on the draft CARICOM Youth Development Action Plan (CYDAP) 2012 – 2017. The CYDAP which was developed in a consultative process gives expression…

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  • December 2, 2011
    522

    TAKE ACTION TO ACHIEVE ELIMINATION OF HIV – CARICOM SG

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General has sounded a call to action toward achieving the elimination of HIV and AIDS, in the Caribbean and the world. “World AIDS Day and its focus on “Zero” is an opportunity for all of us – individuals, communities and political leaders, to take action and…

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  • December 2, 2011
    577

    PANCAP CAN ACHIEVE UNAIDS’ THREE ZEROS

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) is well poised to undertake UNAIDS’ challenge of “Getting to Zero: Zero Discrimination, Zero New Infections and Zero AIDS-related deaths.” In his World AIDS Day 2011 message, The Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and PANCAP Chair said it was…

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  • November 26, 2011
    496

    Antigua: Message for Caricom energy awareness week 2012

    Fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda: The use of energy in its various forms is essential to all forms of economic and social development and this year’s celebration of CARICOM Energy Week provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the uses of energy in Antigua and Barbuda and to develop strategies for promoting its efficient and sustainable…

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  • November 21, 2011
    468

    TRADE MINISTERS MOVING TOWARDS CHARTING A NEW PATH

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers have begun discussions on how to strategically position the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to deliver on its mandates to the Community. Ministers and their representatives, who were in Georgetown for the Thirty-Third Meeting of the COTED, placed their initial thoughts on the table on…

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  • November 18, 2011
    462

    PANCAP URGED TO BECOME A LEADER IN HUMAN RIGHTS

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been called upon to revamp the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) by establishing the Partnership as the Caribbean’s leader in promoting human rights and developing legislation to protect the rights of those persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.…

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  • November 16, 2011
    799

    EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE LEADS TO STRESS RELATED ILLNESS IN YOUTH, SAY CARICOM OFFICIAL

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Heather Johnson, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Deputy Programme Manager, Youth Development says, young people who are constantly exposed to violence invariably develop complex psychosomatic illnesses which very often lead to other chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, mental illnesses and heart diseases. Dr Johnson who also majored in psychology was delivering…

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  • November 15, 2011
    847

    TRADITIONAL SOCIALIZATION AGENTS HAVE FAILED, SAYS ST KITTS AND NEVIS MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The third leg of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) National Consultations on Gangs and Gang violence project opened in St Kitts and Nevis on Monday with a call from that country’s Minister of Social Development Culture and Gender Affairs Honourable Marcella Liburd for “traditional shapers of society “to reassert their role in order to mitigate…

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  • November 14, 2011
    379

    PANCAP MEETS UNDER THE THEME ENHANCING COUNTRY OWNERSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than 120 representatives of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), including one Head of Government and several ministers, will meet for the Partnership’s Eleventh Annual General Meeting on 18 November 2011, in The Bahamas. The venue of the meeting is the British Colonial Hilton, Nassau. A key highlight of this…

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  • November 11, 2011
    921

    Greenhouses in Jamaica helping forge an agricultural renaissance

    As Jamaica seeks to slash high import food bills, the country and its farmers are reaping success with greenhouse technology.

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