Caribbean Week of Agriculture
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REMARKS BY HON. JENNIFER WEBSTER, MINISTER OF HUMAN SERVICES AND SOCIAL SECURITY ON THE OCCASION OF THE Women´s Forum, Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2013 OCTOBER 8, 2013
Colleague of the Cabinet – Hon. Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, MP-Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Wilmot Garnett-IICA Representative to Guyana, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Visiting Delegates, especially our female delegates, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Media. Let me extend a welcome to all our overseas Guests who are visiting Guyana for the first time and to extend a special…
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Remarks by Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat On the Occasion of the Opening of the Twelfth Caribbean Week of Agriculture, October 9, 2013,
I speak to you this evening on behalf of Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, the CARICOM Secretary-General who, unfortunately, is out of the country. Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) has come to be known as the premier agriculture event in the Caribbean and rightly so. After 14 years, CWA is increasingly becoming the ‘go-to’ event in which stakeholders from across the Region…
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ICTs a way towards a successful future in agriculture
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) within the agriculture industry is a tool for changing the agricultural sector in the Caribbean. Speaking at the launch of a two-day workshop entitled “Strengthening ICTs in Agricultural Value Chains – Towards increased integration in ICTs for growth and productivity”, Michael Hailu, director, Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural…
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CWA 2013 explores Moving the regional coconut industry forward
The vast potential of coconut industry in the Caribbean came under the microscope as the activities of the 12th edition of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) continued at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) in Georgetown. The CWA is being held under the theme `Linking the Caribbean for Regional Food and Nutrition Security and Rural Development’. A workshop on…
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Great opportunity for promoting, modernising agriculture
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) which will be held in Georgetown, Guyana, 4-12 October, is being marketed as a great opportunity not only for pursuing food security but also for promoting agriculture as a business, modernising the sector, and creating and expanding networks. The premier agriculture event in the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) calendar is…
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