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Women and slavery
Do you remember the days of slavery?” Jamaican Roots Reggae artist Burning Spear asks in his 1975 song ‘Slavery Days’. He was referring of course to the dark 400-year period of our global history during which more than 18 million men, women and children were victims of the horrific transatlantic trade in humans that saw their movement from the continent…
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Use Memorial to say no to racism, discrimination: Jamaica’s Prime Minister
Today is a significant day in history especially for Africans at home and in the Diaspora. As Bob Marley sang: “There’s a natural mystic flowing through the air. If you listen carefully you will hear.” Today, is all the more fitting for this International Day of Commemoration, as it was on March 25, 1807 that one European nation, Britain, passed…
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Barbados, Eastern Caribbean youth for animation, software development training
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Four hundred young men and women in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean will be equipped to participate in the global multi-billion dollar mobile application and animation industries. The Caribbean Development Bank, along with partners, will fund training under the Caribbean Animation and Technology Capacity Building Programme (Carib-AniTech). CDB will jointly finance the two-year capacity building programme which…
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UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday thank the Caribbean Community andAfrican Union for their role in the initiation and creation of a permanent memorial to honor victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The Memorial which is called the Ark of Return was unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters. Rodney Leon, an architect of Haitian descent, living and working in New York, is the…
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Guyana/Venezuela oil exploration conflict…Guyana pleased at CARICOM support
– hopes conflict is resolved soon As conflict between Guyana and Venezuela continues over offshore oil exploration in disputed waters, Guyana has expressed satisfaction at the solidarity shown by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, told reporters yesterday that there have been no major changes in the matter. However, the Foreign Affairs Minister expressed pleasure at…
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St. Kitts and Nevis teachers to be trained on the CSME this week
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), through the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit, the Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and the Ministry of Education are working together to expose secondary school teachers to the CSME and teaching skills aimed at influencing curricula. Thirty secondary school teachers in St. Kitts and Nevis have been selected to attend a…
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Bassarath: ICC coming to region speaks to confidence in WICB
President of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director, Azim Bassarath says that the fact that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to keep their annual meeting in Barbados, shows that they have confidence in the WICB. Bassarath said: “This decision to come to the Caribbean for the annual meeting was taken after the…
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CCJ President: The Impact and Influence of The Magna Carta On Caribbean Law
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 25, 2015 (SKNIS): President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Charles Michael Dennis Byron, recently presented a lecture at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus, which underscored the impact and influence of the Magna Carta on Caribbean law. The lecture was in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter), a legal…
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Education Ministry achieves milestone in TVET policy implementation
The Ministry of Education on Thursday, March 19, held a sensitization workshop to design, develop and pilot a National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for St. Kitts and Nevis. It marked another milestone in the implementing of the National Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Policy. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Ionie Liburd-Willett, stated that the workshop comes…
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CARICOM General Counsel commends Guyana for ratifying Environmental Agreements
General Counsel at the CARICOM Secretariat Ms. Safiya Ali says Guyana has set an example for the Region by being the only CARICOM country so far to ratify two relatively new environmental agreements: the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Ms. Ali was speaking at the opening ceremony of a National Customs Workshop on Multilateral Environmental Agreements that…
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