Areas of Work
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SKN breaks ground on new solar farm
Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 08, 2015 (SKNIS): St Kitts continues to break new ground in its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint, reduce fossil fuel consumption and expand its usage of renewable energy, with the opening of the first half of a one-megawatt solar farm today (January 08). Prime Minister and Minister with Responsibility for Sustainable Development The Right Honorable Dr. Denzil Douglas,…
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Push for small ruminants
The production of small ruminants is poised to take off in the region and the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture’s Representative to Barbados and Management Co-ordinator for the Caribbean Region, Ena Harvey, believes that in Barbados, sheep in particular will be quite successful. Speaking with The Barbados Advocate recently, Harvey noted that there are a number of regional initiatives…
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CTO Statement on New Changes in the British APD
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (3 Dec 2014) -The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) welcomes today’s announcement by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, of further changes to the Air Passenger Duty (APD) from next May. The Chancellor has announced in his December 3rd Autumn Statement the abolition of APD for children under the age of 12 from next May, one month…
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CARREX to be fully operational by year end
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Rapid Alert System for Exchange of Information on Dangerous (non-food) Consumer Goods (CARREX) is expected to be completely operational at the national and regional levels by the end of 2014. Representatives from national standards bureaux in CARICOM are being trained at a Regional Workshop in Suriname on matters relating to the CARREX…
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PAHO: Antiretroviral treatment for people with HIV increasing in Caribbean
WASHINGTON, DC (CMC) — The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS is increasing in Latin America and the Caribbean. PAHO said that nearly 600,000 more people are receiving antiretroviral treatment for HIV in the region than in 2003. PAHO released the figures ahead of World AIDS Day, December 1. PAHO's theme for World…
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Grenada to host renewable energy workshop
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada — A renewable energy workshop sponsored by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) will be held in Grenada on Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Representatives from both public and private sectors have been invited to participate and contribute valuable insights on issues surrounding renewable energy deployment in Grenada. The workshop is an outcome of a European Union funded…
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Caribbean Public Health Agency aims to reduce child obesity by 2025
San Juan, (EFE).- The Caribbean Public Health Agency, or CARPHA, published a Plan of Action for Promoting Healthy Weights: 2014 – 2019, part of a push to reduce obesity among children and adolescents by 2025. CARPHA has an integrated strategy to address nutrition-related diseases in Caribbean countries, where the proportion of overweight or obese people is in the range of 28 percent to 35…
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World AIDS Day: opportunity for reflection, resolution – Secretary-General
MESSAGE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY 2014 World AIDS Day provides an opportunity for reflection and resolution. Not long ago an affliction with HIV and AIDS was literally a death sentence. Today, thanks to scientific breakthroughs and access to treatment, people with HIV and AIDS are living longer and leading productive lives. Yet there are…
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Responding to climate change from the grassroots up
GUNTHORPES, Antigua, Nov 7 2014 (IPS) – As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production. “I want at least 10,000 people in Antigua and Barbuda…
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Chikungunya vaccine successful in clinical trial
VIENNA, Austria I November 23, 2014 I The Austrian biotech company Themis Bioscience GmbH in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) have developed a prophylactic vaccine against chikungunya.The vaccine appears to be safe, and produced an immune response that researchers suspect would protect people against infection. The Vienna-based biotech company Themis Bioscience GmbH (‘Themis’) has received final results of…
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