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Traditional herbal remedies harnessed to treat chikungunya in Antigua
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tuesday March 31, 2015 – Last summer, 38-year-old Sira Berzas from Antigua and Barbuda was struck down with chikungunya, the mosquito-borne disease that has swept through the Caribbean infecting more than 800,000 people since it was first detected in the region in December 2013. The debilitating virus, which originated in Africa and derives its name from a word…
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Environmental Rule of Law Meeting opens in Jamaica
More than 100 high-level officials including judges, prosecutors, parliamentarians, experts from international organizations, academics, students, and representatives of civil society and the private sector are meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, for the first Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law. The two-day meeting opened on Monday and seeks to promote the development and strengthening of environmental legislation, policies and institutions…
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Stem cell research and treatment facility to be established in St Kitts
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — Plans are in the works to establish a stem cell research and treatment center in St Kitts in the near future. The plans were make public at a press conference organized by the St Kitts biomedical Research Foundation following the Foundation’s Strategy Conference on Reverse Aging Treatments in the presence of several international scientists and…
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CARICOM seeks international support for socio-economic growth
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 31, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are still grappling with the effects of global economic crisis as well as the impact climate change, Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has said. Addressing the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Christie, who is the CARICOM chairman, said that regional countries are acutely aware of the…
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Barbados To Host Golden Oldies Cricket Festival
Barbados has won the bid to host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players. Local cricketing legends, the Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers and Joel Garner, have joined a delegation led by Alvin Jemmott, Chairman of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), to promote the tournament in Cape Town, South Africa at…
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CARICOM Chairman addresses UN’s Economic and Social Council
Prime Minister Christie is in New York to participate in a high level dialogue during the 2015 integration segment of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on Monday, 30th March 2015. Under the theme “Achieving sustainable development through employment creation and decent work for all,” Prime Minister Christie will deliver the country and region statement as the Chair…
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Caribbean Fisheries Forum to review regional spiny lobster declaration
Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen (17) Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), as well as observers and partner agencies, on Monday began participating in the 13th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum in Grenada. The two-day meeting is being held at the Flamboyant Hotel in St. George’s. The representatives will review the status of fisheries and aquaculture…
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Transforming Caribbean Cocoa
By the Caribbean Journal staff The University of the West Indies’ Cocoa Research Centre has embarked on a major new project: to transform the region’s cocoa sector. The new project, dubbed the International Fine Cocoa Innovation Centre, is the brainchild of the Cocoa Research Centre and its partners, funded by a $2.17 million grant from the European Union. It’s all…
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Tradewinds 2015, gets underway tomorrow
The St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Force (SKNDF) is forging ahead with preparations for hosting ‘Phase 1′ of the United States-sponsored Regional Security Force training exercise dubbed Tradewinds. This is designed to make the waters off St. Kitts and Nevis the Operations Area (OA) for the Maritime Phase. Tradewinds, which will be conducted from May 31 to June 9, will bring together more than 200…
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Caribbean Export, OAS partner to enhance businesses through ICT
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in collaboration with the Organization of American States (OAS) partnered with the Information and Communication Technology (CTIC) for the implementation of a training programme for ICT Advisors from 11 CARICOM countries. The countries are Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and…
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