Areas of Work

  • April 27, 2001
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    YOUTH IN THE REGIONAL INTEGRATION MOVEMENT

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is moving closer to having an inter-sectoral agenda for youth in the regional integration movement. A draft regional strategy for youth development, which is intended to engage them in promoting their own cause headlines the agenda for a meeting of CARICOM Directors of Youth scheduled for 7-9 May in Trinidad and Tobago. The Port-of-Spain meeting is…

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  • March 27, 2001
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    REGION RAISES BARRIERS TO FOOT AND MOUTH AND MAD COW DISEASES

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is planning to develop a harmonised regional strategy to manage and minimise the risk of Foot and Mouth and Bovine Spongiform Enceaphalopathy, BSE, (Mad Cow) diseases, as part of the Region’s agricultural health and food safety activities. This is the main focus of a two-day meeting of Chief Agricultural Officers and Public and Health officials, which…

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  • March 15, 2001
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    ACTION TO SAFEGUARD THE REGION FROM DREADED LIVESTOCK DISEASES

    The Caribbean Community is moving to ensure that the dreaded Foot and Mouth and Mad Cow diseases do not impact negatively on the livestock industry and the economies of the Region. To this end the Region's Public Health and Veterinary officers will meet in Guyana on 27 March 2001 to formulate a regional initiative to tackle these potentially devastating diseases.…

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  • February 19, 2001
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    Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP)

    What is PANCAP? The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS, PANCAP, was established by a Declaration of CARICOM Heads of Government on 14 February 2001 in response to the threat of HIV to sustainable human development. PANCAP is a Caribbean regional partnership of governments, regional civil society organisations, regional institutions and organisations, bilateral and multilateral agencies and contributing donor…

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  • January 25, 2001
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    Calibration Workshop planned for February

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has a relatively developed system for national legislation for weighing machines. Automatic weighing devices are widely used to determine the quantity of loads in terms of mass. While some applications are specified by national legislation, they are subject to legal metrological control. In CARICOM there is an ever increasing need to have metrological quality confirmed by…

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  • January 17, 2001
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    CARICOM POSITION ON AGRICULTURE AND SERVICES FOR WTO NEGOTIATIONS

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers responsible for Trade and Economic Development have agreed to a CARICOM position on Agriculture and Services in the current round of negotiations taking place in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Assistant Secretary-General for Regional Trade and Economic Integration at the CARICOM Secretariat, Byron Blake, reporting on the CARICOM initiative, explained that the Ministers also agreed…

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  • January 3, 2001
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    COTED MEETS ON CRUCIAL CSME MATTERS

    The Tenth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will focus on crucial issues concerning the establishment of CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) when the week-long officials and ministerial deliberations begin at the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat on 8 January, 2001. The outcome of the Second Special Consultation between CARICOM and the Civil Society leadership in Barbados…

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  • December 7, 2000
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    UPSURGE IN CROSS BORDER INVESTMENT: POTENTIAL FOR CONGLOMERATE BUSINESS IN THE REGION

    There is an upsurge in cross-border investment within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with potential conglomerate forms of business organisations emerging in the Region. The enterprising intra-CARICOM investors are mainly from the light manufacturing, distribution and financial services sectors. This was reported by the Economic Intelligence and Planning Unit of the Caribbean Community(CARICOM) Secretariat in its recently released Caribbean Trade and…

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  • December 7, 2000
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    FEATURE REMARKS BY THE HON. ANTHONY HYLTON MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, JAMAICA, AT THE LAUNCH OF THE CARIBBEAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT REPORT 2000,  21 NOVEMBER 2000, ST. PHILIP, BARBADOS

    As someone associated with the development of the Single Market and Economy, I most excitedly welcome the publication of the Caribbean Trade and Investment Report 2000. Empirical research has to be the foundation of meaningful policy-making, especially in our rapidly changing regional, hemispheric and global environment, and it is in that regard that this publication will contribute immensely to informing…

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  • December 7, 2000
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    CARICOM/EU TRADE A UNIQUE CHALLENGE : CARIBBEAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT REPORT, 2000

    Trade with the European Union (EU) following the new Cotonou Agreement presents a unique challenge for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) according to the Caribbean Trade and Investment Report, 2000 just released by the Economic and Intelligence and Planning Unit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. However, the Report cautions that the package also poses an imminent threat to the commodity…

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