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Energy Services Customers to Benefit Most from New CARICOM-led Credit Risk Initiative
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Customers for energy services across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are expected to be the main beneficiaries of an ongoing initiative that seeks to facilitate ease of access to credit for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) within the Region’s energy sector. The Credit Risk Abatement Facility (CRAF) is currently being developed by the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) – a…
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CARPHA Concludes Risk of Getting Zika in the Caribbean Low at this Time
Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Media Release Tuesday, August 14, 2018 — Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 13, 2018: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has concluded that Zika virus transmission in the Caribbean Region has been interrupted, and that the risk to residents and visitors to the Region of acquiring Zika is low. This follows a review by CARPHA…
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CARICOM mourns the loss of VS Naipaul
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) mourns the loss of the great writer Sir Vidia Naipaul. The Trinidad and Tobago born Nobel Laureate was a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction works which elicited much critical acclaim and earned him many literary awards. He was acknowledged as a master in the use of language. His unsparing critique of post-colonial societies across…
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Use collective strength to push SIDS priorities, CARICOM SG urges
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is urging close collaboration between Caribbean Small Island and Low-lying Developing States (SIDS) and those in the Indian Ocean and Pacific States to achieve greater results when SIDS development priorities come before a global forum next year . The Secretary-General made the point during the Opening Ceremony for a meeting of Caribbean SIDS preparing for…
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192 countries coming for ICAO Air Transport Meeting
…Field says 16 hotels booked, Guyana all set GUYANA is all set to host for the first time the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) Air Transport Meeting from November 21-23, 2018, with several large companies indicating sponsorship of the event. The conference will see discourse on maximising economic benefits of aviation, harmonising air transport regulatory framework, liberalisation of air cargo…
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Barbados PM leads talks with CARICOM Secretariat on CSME
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the Lead Head of Government in the CARICOM Quasi-Cabinet with responsibility for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, on Friday held the first of her planned monthly meeting with the CARICOM Secretariat, on the CSME. The Secretariat’s team for this meeting was led by Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. Prime Minister Mottley was accompanied by Members…
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Regional statisticians meeting in Georgetown to prepare for 2020 Census Last updated J
Member States begin their census exercises from next year until 2022. The statisticians and other stakeholders began a week-long meeting at the CARICOM Secretariat on Monday. Their activities include a meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (RCCC) and a Training Workshop in Census Management and Planning. The RCCC sessions are aimed at improving the readiness of Member States for…
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Regional statisticians meeting in Georgetown to prepare for 2020 Census
Member States begin their census exercises from next year until 2022. The statisticians and other stakeholders began a week-long meeting at the CARICOM Secretariat on Monday. Their activities include a meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (RCCC) and a Training Workshop in Census Management and Planning. The RCCC sessions are aimed at improving the readiness of Member States for…
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CARICOM and stakeholders to host youth forum in Guyana this week
The CARICOM Secretariat is collaborating with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), EU Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (UNECLAC), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Commonwealth Secretariat and other partners to organise the Caribbean Forum on Population, Youth and Development. The Forum will be held 24 -26 July at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana. The Forum will bring together senior government officials from the Caribbean in the areas of…
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European Union steps up support for Caribbean countries
Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the EU and from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) are meeting in Brussels on 16-17 July. In the margins of the 2nd EU-CELAC Foreign Ministers Meeting, Stefano Manservisi, Director-General for International Cooperation and Development, has signed three new agreements with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and CARICOM Affairs of Dominica, Francine…
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