Areas of Work
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Dominican Republic Gets $100 Million Loan For Health Sector
The Dominican Republic will soon be receiving a $100 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank following its approval this week. The loan aims to boost health care in the country through “investments designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of spending in the sector and improving the quality of services aimed at the country’s poorest people,” according to a…
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US Vice President announces launch of Caribbean Energy Security Initiative
News Americas Now, New York, NY, June 24, 2014- United States Vice President Joe Biden recently announced the launch of the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative. The initiative consists of a portfolio of activities designed with the objective of supporting the Caribbean on energy. The Caribbean Energy Security Initiative includes (i) increasing access to finance, good governance and diversification, (ii) transforming…
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Jamaica Set to Launch Internet Exchange Point in August
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is expected to benefit significantly from an Internet exchange point facility, which the ministry of science, technology, energy and mining expects to have in place by August. The IXP enables Internet traffic-routing within the country where the provision exists, instead of through external providers, as currently is the case with Jamaica. State minister in the ministry,…
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Region’s Cultural Showpiece must be sustained despite economic crisis says CARICOM DSG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARIFESTA must be sustained despite current economic challenges. That was the main message from CARICOM Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan to delegates at the opening ceremony for the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana on Wednesday 18 June, 2014. CARIFESTA – the Caribbean Festival…
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Remarks By Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan, Deputy Secretary General, Caricom Secretariat At The Opening Of The Twenty-Second Meeting Of The Regional Cultural Committee, 18 June 2014, Georgetown, Guyana
It is a great pleasure for me, in- my capacity as Deputy Secretary General, to extend to all of you a warm welcome to the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee. This is the Regional Body which has been advising our Ministers of Culture for the past 27 years on shaping national and regional cultural policy and programmes as…
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Remarks by Dr. Hilary Brown Programme Manager, Culture and Community Development Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) Opening Ceremony Georgetown, Guyana 18 June, 2014
It is a pleasure to warmly welcome all of you to the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (the RCC), a body that has been in existence for over 25 years, having first met on 6-7 June 1987 in Trinidad and Tobago. A very special welcome to the representatives of Member States who are attending the RCC for the…
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Gender Mainstreaming Integral to Region’s Future Foreign Trade Policies
Regional trade policy makers are being urged to ensure that gender equality and gender mainstreaming is integral in their future foreign trade policies and national development strategies. This advice from representatives of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) during Day One of a four-day seminar, examining Gender Mainstreaming in Caribbean Trade Policies and Programmes. The…
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The Board of CRN+ Pledges its Continued Commitment to People Living with HIV
(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Port of Spain, Trinidad— In his acceptance speech at the General Meeting held 2-3 June, the newly elected Chairman of the Board of the Caribbean Regional Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS (CRN+), Mr. Ainsley Reid of Jamaica, recognized the strides made across the region in the fight against the spread of…
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CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE-Regional countries participating in IICA project
AN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jun 16, – CMC – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says it is supporting institutions involved in pesticides registration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) try to generate data that make it possible for them to promote maximum residue levels (MRL) for small scale crops in the region. It said the project…
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Sir Ian Botham praises vision of St. Kitts-Nevis Government
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 16, 2014 (SKNIS): Legendary English cricketer Sir Ian Botham has “tipped his hat” to the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis for its involvement with the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 tournament. “It’s a massive thing for St. Kitts and Nevis and I think it will do the island so much good,” Sir Ian is…
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