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Caribbean region must boost efforts to prepare for increased drought – UN report
Climate change is expected to increase the intensity and frequency of droughts in the Caribbean, so countries in the region must enhance their capabilities to deal with this and other extreme weather-related challenges to ensure food security and hunger eradication, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said in a new report. The report, Drought Characteristics and Management…
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Grenada Parliament gives nod to CCJ
ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, Jun 21, CMC – The Grenada Parliament Tuesday approved legislation for the island to replace the London-based privy Council with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final court. However, before Grenada could join Barbados, Dominica, Belize and Guyana that have already made the CCJ their final court, the issue will have to go before its citizens…
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PAHO executive discussing plans for improving health in the region
WASHINGTON, Jun 22, CMC – The Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is meeting in Jamiaca to discuss strategies and plans to improve health in the Americas, including the Caribbean. Three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries – Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas and Antigua and Barbuda – are members of the Committee, whose 158th meeting ends on Friday. PAHO…
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CEBO ‘ambassador’ in Silicon Valley for entrepreneurship summit
St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy PM Richards presents support to Ms. Elliott for her travel to Silicon Valley. (Photo courtesy the Department of Youth Empowerment)[/caption] St Kitts and Nevis entrepreneur Anastasha Elliott is in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA, where she will learn about and explore first-hand what the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) has to offer. While there, she will also…
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Regional programme launched to increase goat, sheep meat production
JAMAICA has endorsed a regional programme that seeks to improve the stock of sheep and goats in the country while training persons in animal husbandry, with particular emphasis on small ruminants. The Latin American Small Ruminants Programme and the Caribbean Small Ruminants Capacity-uilding Programme are funded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the Government of New Zealand. Apart from…
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines hosts first formal Regional Conversation on Marijuana in CARICOM
The first formal regional conversation around Marijuana in CARICOM got started here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday June 15. Earlier in the day, Members of the Regional Commission on Marijuana engaged in a series of Focus Group Discussions with a wide cross section of stakeholders including the youth, faith based organizations, non- governmental organizations and special interest groups.…
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CARICOM Marijuana Commission: T&T ‘not ready’ for consultation
The Caribbean Collective for Justice (CCJ) is calling for Government to uphold its promise to discuss the decriminalization of marijuana. The CCJ said it was informed by the head of the CARICOM Marijuana Commission, Professor Rose Marie Belle Antoine, that Trinidad and Tobago was to be the first country where the Commission would host its first national consultation, but the…
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Prioritising the Caribbean Creative Industry through the Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit (CCIMU)
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, June 17, 2016. The process of cultivating a buoyant and sustainable cultural and creative economy within the Caribbean is a step closer with the development of a business plan to establish the Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit (CCIMU). At the 26th Intercessional meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government held in February 2015, a recommendation was…
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OAS and private sector to boost digital connectivity in the Americas
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Organization of American States (OAS), several leading companies in the field of information and communications technologies (ICTs), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and a group of universities from across the region on Tuesday signed the “2030 ICT Alliance for the Americas” to expand connectivity in the region and to…
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