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Support services for domestic workers and artisans moving to work in CSME countries launched
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Domestic workers and artisans in five countries who want to move to another country within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) now have access to support services through collaboration with the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) under the ‘Making CSME Work for Domestics and Artisans’ project. caricom-logo.jpg The project, operational in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts…
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Health Minister notes impact of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity
Health Minister Dr. Fenton Ferguson says the national burden posed by non-communicable diseases (NCD) constitute a major public health challenge, which undermines the country's social and economic development. Dr. Ferguson said recent national surveys showed an increase in the major behavioural risk factors and NCDs, such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes, among adults. The Minister emphasised that it is in…
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Caribbean urged not to be complacent about Ebola
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Friday September 12– No case of the deadly Ebola virus has yet been detected in the Caribbean. However, this is no reason for complacency. This is the word from Dr. James Hospedales , Executive Director of The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), as he addressed journalists at a regional press conference in Port-of-Spain Trinidad and Tobago. “The…
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Caribbean Export Launches the Regional Investor of the Year Award 2014
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) have announced the 2nd hosting of the Caribbean’s Regional Investor of the Year Awards 2014 (RIYA 2014). RIYA 2014 is a prestigious and unique annual award programme that seeks to recognize and salute the achievement of pan-Caribbean foreign and local investors. These investors have…
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Guyana’s investment in HIV/AIDS battle paying off- NAPS Director
Guyana’s prevalence rate of HIV has increased but that now indicates that more people are living rather than dying of the disease due to aggressive public education and greater access to treatment and care, Head of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat, Dr. Shanti Singh said. Singh said latest research shows that the prevalence rate is 1.4 percent or 7,700 persons…
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Caribbean Maritime Institute to offer Three Full Tuition Scholarships to Antigua and Barbuda Nationals
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – 10th September, 2014……..The Port Management Association of the Caribbean (PMAC) has funded a team of Port Consultants out of Jamaica to give the Antigua and Barbuda Government advice on the Port Development Modernization Project. The delegation is comprised of the Executive Director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute Dr. Fritz Pinnock, the Honourable Noel Hylton…
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Government launches five-year literacy strategic plan
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Sept 9, CMC – Guyana has launched a five-year literacy strategic plan that it said is aimed at ensuring that children are literate by Grade Four, through consistent home, school and community involvement programmes. Education Minister Priya Manickchand said a child’s ability to read would create opportunities for academic and vocational success and urged the population to play…
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Heads of CARICOM Institutions Endorse Communications Plan
The end of August saw a number of Communications Operatives from CARICOM agencies coming together for the first time. Meeting virtually, they considered Communication, which was identified as a critical enabler and one of the top priorities in the implementation of the CARICOM Five Year Stretegic Plan. Attending on behalf of the CKLN was Colleen Wint, Communications and International Relations…
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Regional Procurement System To Be Established
Jamaica is to benefit from a regional project, aimed at creating a fully functional electronic public procurement system across the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The Regional Integration Electronic Public Procurement System, which is to be implemented across CARICOM member states, is geared towards the liberalisation and integration of the regional market for trade in goods and services. This…
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Reaffirming Commitment to Small Island Developing States, Global Leaders Adopt Historic Text in Samoa Pledging Action on Sustainable Development
Samoa Pathway’ Document Calls for Building Resilience, Increased Partnerships Renewing commitment to the sustainable development of small island developing States (SIDS), world leaders today agreed on a landmark action plan at the conclusion of the United Nations Third International Conference on those nations held in Apia, Samoa. Unanimously adopting the wide-ranging outcome document, titled “Small Island Developing States Accelerated…
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