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  • January 18, 2014
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    Opening Remarks By Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Secretary-General, Caribbean Community At The Forty-Eighth Special Meeting of the Council For Trade and Economic Development (COTED) On Information Communication and Technologies (ICT)

    I am very pleased to welcome you, to this long overdue Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies. At the outset I must acknowledge the instrumental role of the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr the Rt. Honourable Keith Mitchell on whose initiative this critical Meeting is being held. It was the…

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  • January 15, 2014
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    CARICOM moves to harmonise literacy data

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is forging ahead with a programme designed to harmonise the measurement of literacy data to advance the production of reliable information for better decision making in this area. Education officials, statisticians and other experts gathered in Barbados on Tuesday and Wednesday for the CARICOM Fourth Technical Workshop on a Common…

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  • January 15, 2014
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    CARICOM Broadcasters at workshop on Regional Integration and the CSME

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Approximately thirty Caribbean Community (CARICOM) broadcasters are scheduled for a workshop on regional integration and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy CSME in Antigua and Barbuda 16-17 January, 2014.  The activity, organized by the CARICOM Secretariat with funding from the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), is taking place at the Jolly Beach Resort and…

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  • January 13, 2014
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    ICT in the Ministerial spotlight in Grenada this week

    Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers with responsibility for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will this week be preparing recommendations for the Heads of Government for the development of the sector. The Ministers’ recommendations will come out of discussions in Grenada this week at the 48th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development with a focus on. The Prime…

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  • December 18, 2013
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    SG praises Grenada’s leadership in ICT

    CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque praised Grenada for leading by example in using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to create an enabling environment to pursue its social and economic development goals. The Secretary-General was speaking during a ceremony at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown Guyana where he received the…

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  • December 17, 2013
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    CXC managed nursing exams set for October 2014

    CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Representatives of National Nursing Councils of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) met recently in Barbados to complete the final review of the process to launch the CXC managed Regional Examination for Nurse Registration (RENR) in October 2014. With the recent growth of training opportunities in the field, nursing stakeholders…

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  • December 12, 2013
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    Energy information, management in focus in Jamaica

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Energy sector officials are meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, this week to chart the way forward in energy information gathering and dissemination, management and planning. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Latin American Energy Organisation (OLADE) are collaborating on the joint staging of the Regional Energy Information Forum held on Monday 9 December and…

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  • December 9, 2013
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    CARICOM Secretary General joins in observing 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    The Caribbean Community (CARTICOM) recognises that gender-based violence continues to be a serious problem across the Region.  So said CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque  in a  message marking the observance of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, is being observed from 25 November which is…

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  • December 9, 2013
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    MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY TO COMMEMORATE 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE 25 NOVEMBER TO 10 DECEMBER 2013

    The CARICOM Secretariat joins women and men globally to commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, observed from 25 November which is designated as the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, the UN Human Rights Day.  This annual campaign spans these 16 Days in order to highlight the link between violence against…

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  • December 6, 2013
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    CARICOM High Level Ministerial Meeting on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities in the Caribbean Building a Disability-Inclusive Society For All Declaration of Pétion Ville 6 December 2013

    We, the representatives of the Fifteen States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),     Having met in Pétion Ville on 5 and 6 December 2013 for the High Level Ministerial Meeting on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;   Recalling the decision of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, meeting in July 2013, that priority attention be given…

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