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CTA wins international prize for youth and ICTs project
CTA’s Agriculture, Rural Development and Youth in the Information Society (ARDYIS) project has won an international award in the 2015 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Project Prizes. After being shortlisted earlier this year, the ARDYIS entry was proclaimed winner of the e-agriculture category following a round of online voting and a review by a panel of experts of…
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ILO holds National Bipartite Meetings for social partners in Saint Lucia and Grenada
The first Meeting in Saint Lucia will be held at the Bay Gardens Hotel on Tuesday, 7 July; and the Meeting in Grenada will be held at the Public Workers' Union on Thursday, 9 July. Under the EU-funded Programme to strengthen the capacity of the Caribbean Employers' Confederation (CEC) and the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) to enable them to…
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – Excerpt from the Communiqué issued on the conclusion of the Thirty-sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
Heads of Government, acutely aware of the opportunity provided to build truly vibrant societies and resilient economies and chart a new era of sustainable development for the Region and the world, discussed the culmination of three on-going and integrated global processes. They noted that the Region has been actively involved in the processes which will be brought to a climax…
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Panama Keen To Cooperate with Barbados In Education
Panama is seeking to strengthen cooperation with Barbados by creating linkages in the area of education. This was expressed today as Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones, and officials of his Ministry met with Panama’s Minister of Education, Marcela Paredes de Vásquez, and her delegation, on the margins of the 36th Regular Meeting of the Conference of…
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Barbados And Panama Sign MOU
Barbados and the Republic of Panama now have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Bilateral Relations. The documents were signed and exchanged today during the 36th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. The meeting, which ends today, is being held the Hilton Barbados Resort, Needhams Point, St. Michael. Minister of Foreign Affairs and…
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CARICOM’s silence on Venezuela’s threat against Guyana should not be seen as reluctance -SG LaRoque
While The Commonwealth, the Organisation of American States and the United States government have all made known their condemnation of the actions by Venezuela, CARICOM which has its secretariat in Guyana, has offered very little. As the 36th Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government opens at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados, the regional body is still to offer a…
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CARICOM Chairman receives commemorative bat
Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma on Friday presented Prime Minister Freundel Stuart with a commemorative cricket bat of the historic 1950 West Indies tour of England. The presentation of the bat, which bears the signatures of the players, was made in the presence of other CARICOM leaders, as they met with the Commonwealth Secretary General at a special breakfast meeting…
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29 Jamaican spokespersons join regional Single Market Bureau
Twenty nine Jamaicans from public and private sectors and civil society were officially installed as members of the prestigious CARICOM Single Market Spokespersons Bureau on Tuesday March 17 after two days of training at the Eden Gardens Wellness Resort and Spa. The training, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Jamaica in partnership with the CARICOM…
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HIV/AIDS: Punitive Laws, Stigma Drive Vulnerability To Infection – Ban
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says the HIV and AIDS epidemic is made worse by punitive laws and stigma which drive vulnerability to infection and block access to life-saving treatment. In a speech he delivered at the launch of UNAIDS and Lancet Commission Report: “Defeating AIDS -Advancing Global Health’’, in Bridgetown, Barbados on Friday, Ban said homophobia threatened both human rights…
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CDB hosts meeting with UN Secretary General and Regional Climate Change Agencies
His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations met with Caribbean organisations working to co-ordinate climate action today at a meeting hosted by and held at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in Barbados. The agencies shared updates on the nature and impact of their work, while indicating critical areas and interventions which can enhance their effectiveness. The…
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