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Grenada to host workshop on OECS Economic Union
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Grenada will host a three-day workshop outlining the benefits, implications and opportunities of an Economic Union of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The St. Lucia-based OECS Secretariat said that the October 9-11 event being conducted by the Regional Integration Unit (RIU) is specifically designed for middle and senior level officers representing ministries of…
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Unemployed? – Look to the UN, urges official
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JAMAICANS are an endangered species at the UN Secretariat housed in New York in the United States. Of the roughly 43,000 people employed there, only 136 are Jamaican. Of that number, only 28 fall within the professional category, with “very few” in senior-level posts. “Jamaicans, therefore, remain underrepresented at the senior levels within the United Nations. Further,…
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Jamaica Facing Possible Currency Crisis
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A country enters a currency crisis if its exchange rate depreciates by more than 25 per cent in a given year. So far this year, the Jamaican dollar has depreciated approximately 12 per cent, moving from J$93 to US$1 in January to roughly J$104 to US$1 at the moment. The last time the Jamaican dollar had such…
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Making Caribbean Agriculture Climate Smart’ book launched in Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC — Two leading agricultural organisations have launched a book on agriculture in a climate-change Caribbean environment, as a leading agriculturalist warned that global climate change is one of the most serious threats to sustainable development in the region. The publication, “Making Caribbean Agriculture Climate Smart”, was launched during the Joint Technical Opening of Caribbean Week of Agriculture…
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Fenton: PAHO/WHO support vital to region
KINGSTON, Jamaica – HEALTH Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has lauded the Pan American Health OrganiSation and the World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) for reaffirming their support to the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries as they work to confront health challenges. Addressing the 25th Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) at PAHO headquarters in Washington DC last week, Minister…
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Developed countries criticised over failure to transfer technology
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana’s Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has criticised the world’s rich countries over their failure to transfer to developing nations the technology needed to fast track their development. Ramsammy said their failure has led to developing countries being unable to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 8. The MDGs are the world's time-bound and quantified targets…
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Farmers protest lack of action from Government
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Promises, promises and more promises. This is what angry farmers said they been receiving over the years from the Government. Various farming associations falling under the umbrella of the National Food Crop Farmers Association (NFFA) protested yesterday at the Norris Deonarine Wholesale Market, Macoya. At the protest, they held placards, banners and threw pumpkins and…
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From farm to fork: improving nutrition in the Caribbean
GEORGETOWN, Guyana- Researchers from universities in Canada and the Caribbean will discuss improvements in the region's agriculture and nutrition during the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA2013): Linking the Caribbean for Regional Food and Nutrition Security and Rural Development, to be held in Guyana, October 4-12, 2013. Since 2011, researchers from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago…
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