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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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UN wants end to Racism, Intolerance as World Commemorates Anti-discrimination Day
Almost 50 years after the proclamation of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN has been told that too many individuals, communities and societies continue to suffer from the injustices and stigma brought by racism. The major historical tragedies related to racial or ethnic discrimination that had affected global history were not so remote that people could…
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New CCJ Judge sworn in
The Honourable Mme. Justice Maureen Rajnauth-Lee was sworn in by His Excellency Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona as Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday at a ceremony at the Office of the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Among those at the ceremony were the Honourable Mr. Justice Ivor Archie, Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago,…
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Caribbean Export Explores Technical Management Unit To Support Regional Trade
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Following the successful hosting of a business forum in the Cayman Islands, for private sector firms, the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) explored the establishment of a technical management unit (TMU) to assist exporters from the Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) states that are interested in entering the French Caribbean…
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GHESKIO Opens New Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti
In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Haitian Study Group on Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma, or GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat patients suffering from the disease. The hospital's opening comes five years after a catastrophic earthquake crippled Haiti's infrastructure and destroyed the five major TB hospitals in the capital city,…
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