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Climate fund rolls out amid hopes it stays “green”
Kitty Stapp UNITED NATIONS, Thursday June 4, 2015, IPS – After a difficult infancy, the Green Climate Fund is finally getting some legs. The big question now is what direction it will toddle off in. Local ownership, sustainability and a firm commitment to clean energy are a few of the non-negotiable items if the Fund is to be a success,…
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Bureau of Standards Jamaica to improve packaging centre and service to private sector through EU-CSME Standby Facility
(Bridgetown, 4 June 2015) – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced the signing of a grant agreement between the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) and the CDB. The grant is valued at EUR213,820, and was approved under the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) – European Union (EU) CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Standby Facility…
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India seeks greater bilateral trade relations with CARICOM
Bilateral trade relations between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and India have much room for growth with current figures in the region of $1 billion. This is the view expressed by India’s Vice Minister and Special Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, His Excellency Mr. R. Swaminathan at the opening of the inaugural meeting of the CARICOM-India Joint…
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Bahamas, China Sign Memorandum on Air Services
In what could be a major step for Bahamian tourism, the Bahamas and China have signed a memorandum of understanding for air service between the two countries. The move comes months after initial talks led by Prime Minister Perry Christie on the idea. The agreement was signed by Transport Minister Glenys Martin at Christie’s office in Nassau. It provides the…
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Bringing Caricom labour closer
On May 26, the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation (CEC) and the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together to identify areas where common legislative and regulatory principles having regional application are essential, and formulate in legislation principles facilitating the establishment and operation of business and the free movement of labour within Caricom common space.…
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Antigua And Barbuda Launches Caribbean Week With Must Attend Event Of The City
NEW YORK, NY – USA . June 3, 2015 – The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority started Caribbean Tourism Week with a splash by hosting the must-attend event of the city, with over 180 attendees including influential, top-tier leading media, and travel trade and executives. The event was held to celebrate achievements of the past year of The Government of…
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Health ministry puts focus on HIV awareness
The Ministry of Health, Seniors and Environment is observing HIV awareness month with additional free HIV tests. A government spokesman said the ministry will be promoting the vision of the joint United Nations programme on HIV and Aids (UNAids) of “Getting to zero: zero new infections, zero discrimination, zero Aids-related deaths.” “Given the preventable nature of HIV and advances in…
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Bahamas Builds Resilience Against a Surging Sea
NASSAU, May 29 2015 (IPS) – Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase “1.5 to stay alive” in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5 degrees C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating effects of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable countries. But for the countries of the Caribbean, the challenge associated with…
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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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