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  • Photo of Webinar on Enabling agricultural investment in Caribbean for effective response, post-COVID-19 recovery
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    Webinar on Enabling agricultural investment in Caribbean for effective response, post-COVID-19 recovery

    The FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has taken the task to coordinate and carry out a series of discussions, through online conferences, focused on the effects of COVID-19 on the agri-food system.The fifth webinar of the FAO-COVID-19 and Food Systems Series, co-organized with the strategic collaboration of the CARICOM Secretariat, will focus on “Enabling agricultural investment…

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  • Photo of Tracking COVID-19 Pandemic in CARICOM
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    Tracking COVID-19 Pandemic in CARICOM

    The outbreak of the COVId-19 disease was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, with the earliest known case with symptoms being revealed on 1 December 2019.  It was later declared as a Public Health Emergency by the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020, and, subsequently,  as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.  As of 24 April 2020, close to three…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Observer Team for Guyana Elections Recount arrives

    CARICOM Observer Team for Guyana Elections Recount arrives

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observer Team for the recount of Guyana’s Regional and General Elections arrived in Guyana Friday afternoon. The three-member Team is led by Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI), and includes Mr. John Jarvis, Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission and Mr. Sylvester…

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  • Photo of STATEMENT BY THE CHAIR OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), HONOURABLE MIA AMOR MOTTLEY Q.C., M.P., PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS ON CARICOM OBSERVER TEAM FOR GUYANA ELECTIONS RECOUNT

    STATEMENT BY THE CHAIR OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), HONOURABLE MIA AMOR MOTTLEY Q.C., M.P., PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS ON CARICOM OBSERVER TEAM FOR GUYANA ELECTIONS RECOUNT

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observer Team for the recount of Guyana’s Regional and General Elections will arrive in Guyana on Friday, 1 May 2020. The three-member Team will be led by Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI), and includes Mr. John Jarvis, Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda…

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  • Photo of CARPHA urges Member States to maintain vaccine coverage while fighting COVID-19 pandemic

    CARPHA urges Member States to maintain vaccine coverage while fighting COVID-19 pandemic

    Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 29 April 2020.  Although there is no vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), vaccinations against seasonal influenza and measles are available to prevent respiratory illness and vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks during the COVID-19 pandemic. If vaccination programmes are not continued, more people are likely to get sick from vaccine-preventable diseases, thus increasing the burden on…

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  • Photo of COVID-19 and Education- A conversation between the CXC Registrar and a Student

    COVID-19 and Education- A conversation between the CXC Registrar and a Student

    With the current COVID-19 Pandemic affecting various sectors of our society, today we share with you some of the actions being taken by the Caribbean Examinations Council to address the challenges being faced by students. In the video below Registrar of the CXC Dr. Wayne Wesley has a conversation with CSEC Student Faith Flavius in relation to some of the…

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  • Photo of Narrow Gender Gap in ICT Field – CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General

    Narrow Gender Gap in ICT Field – CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General

    “We, women and girls, can be proud of the special perspective we bring to the STEM field and other fields.”– CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General, Amb. Manorma Soeknandan, Ph.D, has called for the narrowing of the gender gap between men and women in the field of ICT. Amb. Soeknandan threw out the challenge during the first CARICOM Digital Dialogue…

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  • Photo of REGIONAL DISTILLERIES JOIN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
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    REGIONAL DISTILLERIES JOIN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

    Bridgetown, Barbados – 22 April 2020: As the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, CARICOM rum producers have modified their production lines to play their part by producing alcohol and hand sanitiser and making donations of sanitation products. Across the Caribbean, contributions have been made to governments, institutions, and frontline healthcare workers and to support local communities impacted by…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Digital Dialogue

    CARICOM Digital Dialogue

    THEME: Regional Resilience: ICT, STEM and Youth  Chairperson: Jennifer Britton, Deputy Programme Manager, ICT4D, CARICOM Secretariat The CARICOM Digital Dialogue is organized by the CARICOM Girls in ICT Partnership. The Partnership was endorsed by the Ministers responsible for ICT at the Seventy-Ninth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), held on…

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  • Photo of IICA will assist the Caribbean to boost trade in goods and agricultural information exchange

    IICA will assist the Caribbean to boost trade in goods and agricultural information exchange

    -as well as to strengthen food security San Jose, 20 April 2020 (IICA). Thirteen Caribbean Ministers of Agriculture participated in a videoconference with the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in which they discussed strategies to bolster agricultural activity and to safeguard the food supply amidst the ongoing health crisis, in a region that relies heavily…

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