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  • Arnaldo Ventura Appointed To CARICOM Committee

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Dr Arnoldo Ventura, professor at The Mico University College, has been invited by the Prime Minister responsible for Science and Technology in CARICOM, Dr Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, to serve on the CARICOM Committee for Science, Technology and Innovation. The first meeting of this committee will take place in Grenada in January 2014 and will…

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  • http://cananewsonline.com/news/full-news/92585-caribbean-agriculture-minister-urges-youth-to-reject-

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A conservation group says it has secured fund to revive an area in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) where a failed marina project has devastated the marine ecosystem. The project in Union Island, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was abandoned almost 20 years ago and residents of the island as well as conservationists say…

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  • Minister urges youth to reject ‘agropreneurs’ label

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – Guyana’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Tuesday urged young people involved in agricultural business to reject the “agropreneurs” label, a term used to refer to persons involved in agricultural enterprises.  “I absolutely reject the notion that agriculture is for subsistence livelihood. Anybody who wants to push that, I say absolutely not!” he told the Caribbean Farmers…

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  • Regional agriculture ministers to meet in Guyana

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – Agriculture ministers from four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are to meet here later this week to discuss ways of procuring agricultural inputs at a reduced cost, Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced. He said the meeting over the next few days would include his counterparts from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts-Nevis and Dominica as…

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  • Stakeholders make ‘concrete and constructive suggestions’ for regional coconut industry

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC -Stakeholders in the Caribbean coconut industry say they have come up with some “concrete and constructive suggestions” geared at creating a shared vision and roadmap for the sector. They met here over the past two days at a workshop titled “Coconut Industry Development for the Caribbean: Towards a Shared Vision” as part of the weeklong activities marking…

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  • Guyana Minister lauds role of women in ensuring food security in the region

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana’s Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster, says women’s empowerment must be seen as a catalyst for growth and diversity of CARICOM economies. She told delegates attending the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) that women’s empowerment is a catalyst for developing any society, and more so in the Caribbean. “This is probably a…

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  • Lawyers suing United Nations over cholera outbreak in Haiti

    NEW YORK, CMC – Human right lawyers are seeking extensive financial damages from the United Nations following the 2010 cholera outbreak in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country, Haiti, that killed more than 8,000 people. The Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), which has filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District,…

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  • The reality—after CCJ ruling

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE ripple effects of the landmark ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of the Jamaican Shanique Myrie vs the Barbados government, should shake the leaders of Caricom out of their  Rip van Winkle-like slumber to honour their commitment to unhindered free intra-regional movement of citizens of the regional community. Caricom…

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  • Dominican Republic: President to Find ‘Solution’ for Haitian Migrants

    President of the Dominican Republic Danilo Medina met yesterday with activist groups fighting against a court ruling, that strips citizenship from thousands of people born to undocumented migrant workers since 1929. The ruling from the Dominican Constitutional Court could lead to mass deportations of Haitians living in the Dominician Republic and has been criticised by the United Nations as it…

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  • Myrie was credible, sincere witness – CCJ

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Shanique Myrie’s sincerity in testifying about her treatment by Barbadian immigration officers impressed the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and this was pivotal in their ground-breaking awarding of non-pecuniary damages to her in Friday’s ruling. “Given the totality of the evidence and its overall consistency, the Court was impressed by the sincerity of Ms Myrie and accepts…

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