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Dominica Announces Formation of National Committee on Reparations
Following the Caribbean Community’s recent agreement to set up national committees on reparations for slavery, Dominica has announced the formation of its own national committee. The purpose of the national committees is to “establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of reparations by the former colonial European countries, to the native and people of the Caribbean Community,…
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DOMINICA-LABOUR-Caribbean trade unionists meet in Dominica
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Representatives of Caribbean public service sector unions meet here this weekend amid concerns that the decision of the Barbados government to lay off workers in an attempt to reverse an ailing economy could spread to other regional countries. “We are here to look at a wide, wide range of issues,” said Sandra Messiah, sub-regional secretary for…
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Thousands of chikungunya cases in region
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March (CMC) – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) says there are reports of new cases of the chikungunya virus in the Caribbean. The ECDPC said in the past week, 293 new cases of chikungunya have been reported in the region, with confirmed ones in St Martin (French), Martinique, St Barthélemy and Guadeloupe. New cases…
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Eight Caribbean countries to strengthen HIV programmes – UNAIDS
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday February 25, 2014, CMC – UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that eight regional countries have finalised specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programmes by making them more responsive to human rights. It said that the representatives from Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago met her last week for a…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DOMINICA’S MOVE TOWARDS THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has welcomed the news that Dominica has moved closer in its bid to formally recognise the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as it final court of appeal. Dominica Prime Minister the Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit announced on Thursday that the government of the United Kingdom had no…
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Statement by H.E. Felix Gregoire, Plenipotentiary Representative Of The Commonwealth of Dominica TO CARICOM
Your Excellency Irwin LaRocque, I bring you greetings from your home country, Dominica, and it is with great humility that I present my Credentials to you as the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). We are quite aware of the importance of the Regional Integration Movement to our people in the Caribbean, and the achievements of CARICOM to date are…
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Newly appointed Dominican Ambassador presents credentials
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, on Thursday said he welcomed steps being taken by Dominica to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) its final court of appeal. The Secretary General was speaking during a ceremony at the CARICOM Secretariat headquarters, Turkeyen, Guyana, where Ambassador to CARICOM from Dominica…
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Remarks by Secretary-General Of The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On The Occasion Of The Presentation of Credentials by HIS EXCELLENCY FELIX GREGOIRE Plenipotentiary Representative Of The Commonwealth of Dominica To The Caribbean Community 7 October 2013
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the CARICOM Secretariat for the presentation of your credentials as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In your new post, you are replacing a much loved and respected figure in the Community, the late Charles Maynard, whose contribution to the integration movement is…
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STATEMENT ON THE RULING OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ON NATIONALITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community is deeply concerned by the ruling of 23 September 2013, of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on nationality which modifies retroactively legislation which bestowed citizenship on persons born in the Dominican Republic during the period 1929-2010. As a result of the ruling, which considers migrants entering the Dominican Republic…
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Gender equality policies to be discussed in the Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – Gender inequalities in the digital economy will be examined here this week at the 12th Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The October 15-18 intergovernmental meeting, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of the Dominican Republic, will be…
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