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Regional Youth Leaders urged to help shape solutions for climate change and other issues
Participants at the fourth staging of the Caribbean Youth Leaders’ Summit in Belize were encouraged to help shape the framing of solutions for issues such as climate change, reproductive health rights and reparations for native genocide slavery. This charge was given to them by Programme Manager for Culture and Community Development at the CARICOM Secretariat Dr. Hillary Brown. She was making remarks at…
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Be smart – CARICOM ASG advises Guyana, Suriname animators
That’s a bit of sound advice that Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration at theCARICOM Secretariat, Mr. Joseph Cox offered animators from Guyana and Suriname. The animators from the Guyana Animation Network and the Suriname Animation Network visited the CARICOM Secretariat on Friday and interacted with Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan PhD., Mr. Cox, Deputy Programme Manager, Information and Communication Technologies…
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Guyana seeks technical support for oil and gas take-off
PRESIDENT David Granger on Thursday held discussions with top oil and gas officials of Trinidad and Tobago during a meeting at his Shiv Chanderpaul Drive office. T&T Minister of Energy and Energy Industries, Ms. Nicole Olivierre and Deputy Permanent Secretary in her ministry, Mr. Andre Laveau, met with Mr. Granger and Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Mr Raphael Trotman. The Head…
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Guyana Animation Network (GAN) Launched
The Guyana Animation Network (GAN) was officially launched at an Open Day in the Generation Next Conference Hall in Georgetown, Guyana, on Saturday 2 July 2016. GAN is a network established to use it resources to create and provide access to opportunities for persons within Guyana’s artistic, creative and technological communities; to develop the requisite skills, with their talents and…
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Much to celebrate, many opportunities in changing world – SVG PM
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon Ralph Gonsalves, struck an optimistic note on Monday and said there was much to celebrate and many opportunities for the Caribbean in a changing world. In remarks at the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM at the National Cultural Centre in Georgetown,…
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Guyana to get regional help to meet global civil aviation standards
Guyana is among several Caribbean countries expected to receive assistance from the Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System (CASSOS) to help reach a year-end deadline set by the global aviation watchdog agency to meet certain conditions. Speaking with Demerara Waves Online News following the opening of the 17th CASSOS Board meeting at the Marriot Hotel, CASSOS Chairman Nari-Williams Singh…
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Guyana stands to be first country to receive assistance from CDF in second funding cycle
Guyana is likely to be the first member state to benefit from a new country assistance programme (CAP) under the CARICOM Development Fund’s (CDF) 2015-2020 funding cycle, since that country is already eligible to receive further support by virtue of having paid up its full assessed contribution to the organisation. CEO Rodinald Soomer disclosed this recently stating: “The CDF is…
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CDB hosts Public-Private Partnerships ‘Boot Camp’ workshops for 40 regional participants
In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados. The Boot Camps are part of the US$1.2 million Regional PPP Support Program, which was launched in May 2015, in partnership…
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Guyana, Jamaica retain positions on Regional Population and Development Conference
Guyana and Jamaica were re-elected as Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development. The second session of the conference took place in Mexico City, Mexico, 6-9 October, 2015. The first session was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, 12-15 August 2013. At the meeting’s first plenary last week, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States expressed gratitude to the presiding officers for the work they did in preparing…
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