Areas of Work
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Cybercrime in focus at ICT talks
A meeting of Caribbean Commonwealth officials with responsibility for ICT will bring the region’s eGovernance and cybercrime issues squarely into focus. The Caribbean Stakeholders’ Meeting on the Importance of ICTs and their Impact on Regional Development takes place in Port-of-Spain from today to Wednesday. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will deliver the feature address at the opening ceremony for the…
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Spotlight on importance of statistics to Regional development
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Regional policy-makers and other high level officials will gather in St. George’s, Grenada, on Monday, 26 May, for a discourse that is aimed at placing the spotlight on the value of statistics to regional development. Top government officials and other regional and international stakeholders will participate in a High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics…
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Haiti: World Bank Approves $58 Million Grant For Agriculture
The World Bank has approved a $58 million grant targeting improved access to local markets and services for agriculture in Haiti. The grant from the International Development Association will reach about 190,000 rural producers, investors and members of agricultural organizations, the bank said in a release. “The development of the Central Artibonite region will help fight against extreme poverty that…
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Caribbean Classrooms of the Future Initiative Launched in Trinidad and Tobago with the OAS, Virtual Educa and the Private Sector
A series of technologically advanced classrooms, designed to benefit thousands of students and educators in schools across the Caribbean, is being launched following a commitment from international telecommunications company Samsung to the Organization of American States (OAS) and Virtual Educa. The initiative follows the lead taken by the government of Trinidad and Tobago and its Ministry of Education to establish…
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CARICOM, Spain identify priority areas for continued cooperation – Cooperation must be visible to Member States – DSG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Spain have identified information and communication technology, the development of Regional micro small and medium enterprises, and the strengthening of a competitive Regional economy as areas of priority that will be pursued under Spain’s technical cooperation agreement with the Community. Developing human capacity through the transfer of knowledge, as…
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High Level Advocacy Forum headlines week of statistics activities in Grenada
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The quest to place statistics frontally before the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues later this month with a high level engagement of stakeholders in St. George’s, Grenada. The High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics, planned for 26 May, is the second such event to be coordinated by the CARICOM Secretariat with support from its international…
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Implementation of CSME to be examined through gender lens
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) got underway on Wednesday at the CARICOM Headquarters in Georgetown Guyana. The Council is being chaired by Minister of Health and Social Services from Montserrat, Hon. Colin Riley and is being hosted with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN…
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CARPHA’s New Laboratory Promises Faster Detection and Response to Control Disease Outbreaks in the Caribbean
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 14, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is now better equipped to perform faster and safer detection and response to infectious disease outbreaks in the Region. Thanks to the Government of Canada’s Global Partnership Programme (GPP), which donated a fully equipped Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory to CARPHA, the first of its…
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Remarks By Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary General, Human And Social Development at The opening Ceremony of The Twenty-Sixth Meeting Of (COHSOD) 14 – 15 May, 2014, Georgetown, Guyana
It is a distinct pleasure to welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) convened under the Theme of Labour and Gender. I would like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to the ILO, the UN Women and the Caribbean Development Bank, for their support of this event and their on-going dedication…
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