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Prolonged Drought Leaves Caribbean Farmers Broke and Worried
CASTRIES, Jun 2 2015 (IPS) – St. Lucian farmer Anthony Herman was hoping that next year he’d manage to recoup some of the losses he sustained after 70 per cent of his cashew crop withered and died in the heat of the scorching southern Caribbean sun. But on June 1, the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season which coincides with the…
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How Caribbean youth are turning digital content into business
Role-Models are Essential When you talk with Caribbean youth about the possibilities and hope that working online offers, you have to give them real-life examples to hang their dreams on and help them to understand that it can be done and that others are doing it. So in my previous article on digital literacy, DuttyBerry and Wally British, two youths…
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Three Regional Heads attend new UWI Vice-Chancellor’s installation
Three of the Region’s Heads of Government were part of a distinguished audience which witnessed the installation of Professor Sir Hillary Beckles as the eight Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Saturday 30 May, 2015. Prime Minister of The Bahamas and Chairman of CARICOM, Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of Barbados, Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart…
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High-powered delegation for UNESCO Slave Route Conference
The National Commission for UNESCO has announced plans to host a Sub-Regional Slave Route Conference that will be based on the theme: ‘Beyond Reparations: Strengthening the Slave Route Project in the Caribbean Region’. The Conference will be held from 7 -8 July, 2015, at the St. Kitts Marriott Hotel, and will bring together experts and representatives from across the Caribbean to…
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CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors an opportunity to impact efficiency and effectiveness – Chair
Excellencies, the formation of this Committee provides an opportunity for us to greatly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of the CARICOM Secretariat and its related agencies. As Ambassadors, we have a unique position in having direct contact with our Heads of Government and Cabinets, as well as with the technical advisors and shareholders. We must therefore maximize these unique positions…
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Five CARICOM Member States sign visa waiver agreements with EU
On 28 May, the EU signed short-stay visa waiver agreements with Saint Lucia, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Republic of Vanuatu, the independent State of Samoa and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, at a ceremony that took place in Brussels. On behalf of the EU, the agreements were signed by Ms. Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Parliamentary…
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Caribbean countries to improve climate change resilience with IDB grant
WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – The Caribbean region will increase its resilience to climate change by enhancing the adaptive capacity across the region through a US$10.39 million grant approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The project is the implementation of the Investment Plan for the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Program For Climate Resilience and it…
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Climate Change – Full response critical
Executive Director for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson has rapped the region’s response to climate change. Highlighting that it was critical to take climate change seriously, he stressed that it was also necessary to look at the phenomenon from all angles, including the islands’ level of readiness to respond to its impacts. “I am particularly…
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Haiti gets US$50 million for cleaner water and sanitation in cholera hot spots
WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – About 300,000 people from Haiti’s cholera-affected rural areas and small towns will benefit from increased access to clean water and sanitation as a result of a US$50 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank. The Sustainable Rural and Small Towns Water and Sanitation project aims to save lives…
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The Bahamas signs on to major Agreements
The Bahamas used the occasion of the just-ended 18th Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) to sign Instruments of Accession to three agreements. Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Fred Mitchell signed on to the: Agreement Establishing the CARICOM Implementing Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS); Memorandum of Understanding for the Sharing of Intelligence among Member States of the…
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