Community Faces and Voices
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How I got into 8 Ivy Leagues and 13 other schools – Kelly Hyle, Guyana
Kelly Hyles got into all eight Ivy League schools, plus MIT, Tufts, Johns Hopkins … the list literally goes on. In fact, Hyles, a 17-year-old who lives in Queens, got 21 acceptance letters from colleges around the country. While she's a straight A student, she's the first to admit that getting into so many schools didn't come without a…
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HCC – NCDs in the NCDs represent symptoms of the failure of our development paradigms
“NCDs in the Post-2015 Era: Delivering Action, Accountability and Results” Side event at UNGA on Review of Progress with NCDs, hosted by the NCD Alliance Remarks of Dr. James Hospedales, Executive Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency on: Perspective of CARICOM LMICs and SIDS Mdm Chair, Hon. Ministers, Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives to the UN, Sir George, members of the NCD Alliance. I’m pleased to…
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Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year Awardee 2015
Mr. Jean Odelin Ordelus, in being a recipient of the Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Construction Category. Mr. Ordelus launched his company, OD Peint Groupe Construction, at the age of 19. Jean Odelin started OD Peint in 2002 at the tender age of just 19 – more to get away from the gas station job he was…
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CARICOM Secretary-General on rice importation dispute
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan 7, 2016–CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, arrived in Belize this Tuesday, January 5, to meet with Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who assumed the rotating chairmanship of CARICOM on January 1, and to discuss with him plans for the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting due to be held in Placencia, Stann Creek, on February 16 and…
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Caribbean Looks to Aquaculture Food Security to Combat Climate Change
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec 10 2015 (IPS) – Jimmi Jones and wife Sandra Lee’s fish farm in Belize City is unique. His fish tanks supply water and nutrients for his vegetable garden needs and the plants filter the water that is recycled back to the tanks. Jones has been showing off the “JimSan Aquaponics” style of organic farming in meetings across…
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Grenada wins ‘Best Honey in the World’ prize
LONDON, England — At the 84th National Honey Show held in London, the highly coveted Medal of Ukraine, which is awarded to the best honey in the world outside of the British Isles, was won this year by Eden Apiaries, a boutique organic apiary from the Caribbean island of Grenada. The winning beekeepers are environmental scientist Dr Valma Jessamy and…
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Tropical Storm Erika- the CDEMA Response
THE Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), successor to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, came into being in September 2009. The Agency’s mandate was enhanced in an effort to further member states’ adoption of a disaster loss reduction and mitigation culture in the Caribbean. The agency, however, was still required to continue with the aspects of the CDERA 1991…
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Sargassum export potential
There is potential for Barbados to commercialise and export a special ingredient found in Sargassum seaweed. Alginate is a substance normally used to make various products including cosmetics, textiles, fodo additives and pharmaceuticals. A group of undergraduate students participating in the latest McGill University/University of the West Indies (UWI) Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies 2015 summer programme conducted research where they…
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24/7 electricity boosts jobs and reduces crime
A Dominican community goes from darkness to having a reliable, 24/7 electricity supply. This is the story of how they managed it For many Dominicans it’s an everyday situation; you come home at night, turn on the light and… nothing! Across a good stretch of the country, unexpected blackouts —sometimes lasting a long period of time— are an everyday situation.…
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Protecting their crops through green technologies, Caribbean women fend for themselves
Through workshops, women farmers in Barbados, Grenada and Jamaica are learning more sustainable farming techniques and securing their livelihoods. Often totally dependent on rainfall for irrigation, battling increasingly longer droughts and intense bursts when the rain does come, Caribbean women farmers are looking to more sustainable means of crop production. With UN Women support, the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC)…
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