Meetings and Events
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CARICOM Heads of Government Meet on Friday – Handover of Chairmanship to feature
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government will hold a special conference on Friday, July 3, which will see Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley handing over the six-month CARICOM Chairmanship to Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This Twentieth Special Meeting of CARICOM Heads will be held via video conference beginning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern…
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CARICOM Flag Raised At Barbados Government Headquarters
Government Information Service, Bridgetown, Barbados – Barbados now has the CARICOM flag flying “at the seat of power” at Government Headquarters. The flag was raised today by Barbados’ Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), David Comissiong, during a short ceremony in the presence of a number of representatives of Caribbean associations, resident here. Ambassador David Comissiong Ambassador Comissiong said that…
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Regional Electric Mobility Actors Charged to ‘Get Started’
(Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Press Release, 25 June, 2020 |Bridgetown, Barbados) – Stakeholders in the energy and transportation sectors were charged not to wait until a comprehensive plan and perfect conditions are available in order to get started on the Regional Electric Vehicle Strategy during an online discussion, which focused on innovation opportunities and the Caribbean…
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INNOVATION, OPPORTUNITIES AND THE CARIBBEAN REALITY – CONSIDERATIONS FOR A REGIONAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE STRATEGY
Tuesday, 16 June 2020 10.30 am – 12.00 pm (EST) on the Caribbean Renewable Energy Community (CAREC) Platform Antecedents In anticipation of a surge in electric vehicle (EV) deployment, in 2018, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat convened the Regional Electric Vehicle Working Group as a forum through which governments, worked alongside leading regional and national actors to share experiences, lessons…
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Caribbean Leaders to Participate in OACPS Inter-Sessional Summit
BRUSSELS, May 30, CMC –Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados is one of two Caribbean leaders who will address the first-ever Inter-Sessional Summit of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) on transcending the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The OACP said that the summit on Wednesday, to be held virtually, will also be…
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COVID-19High-Level Event on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
Date of Event: 28 May 2020 Convened by the Prime Minister of Canada, H.E. Mr. Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, H.E. Mr. Andrew Holness, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the virtual event aims to advance concrete solutions to the development emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and the social and economic crisis it triggered, will derail our chances to achieve…
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COVID-19Second Digital Dialogue Focuses on Work, Opportunities in Post-COVID Caribbean
Following the hugely successful inaugural CARICOM Digital Dialogue, the CARICOM Girls in ICT Partnership will host another regional virtual session on 27 May 2020. For this discussion that begins at 10 am and concludes at 1pm, business leader, and author, Mr. Wayne Christopher Chen, LLB, JP, will be the featured speaker. The topic, ‘Jobs, work and opportunities in the post-COVID…
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Second CARICOM Digital Dialogue
Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2020 Time: 10 am – 1 pm Featured Speaker: Mr. Wayne Chen, President of the Caribbean Employers Confederation Chairperson: Jennifer Britton, Deputy Programme Manager, ICT4D, CARICOM Secretariat Topic: Jobs, Work and Opportunities in the post COVID Caribbean Objectives: To support CARICOM Secretariat technical work (e.g. on the development of the HRD Strategy and the Single ICT…
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CXC Regional Examinations to be held in July 2020
CSEC, CAPE and CCSLC students will be sitting their examinations in July this year. That was the decision coming out of the First Emergency Virtual Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) – Education on Friday. The meeting, chaired by Antigua and Barbuda Minister of Education, Hon. Michael Browne, was attended by Ministers of Education, senior Ministry…
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CARICOM Foreign Ministers meet to coordinate foreign policy amid COVID-19 pandemic
CARICOM Foreign Ministers were reminded of the importance of regional foreign policy coordination in the current uncertain times, as they opened the 23rd Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) via videoconference, Wednesday. CARICOM Secretariat’s Assistant Secretary-General, Ambassador Colin Granderson in reminding the meeting of the global health, social and economic crisis in the form of the…
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