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CARICOM Consumer Warning System being rolled out
n online consumer-protection warning system now exists, in which 13 million consumers in the 14 Caricom member states can alert authorities to dangerous products on the market. Food, which is monitored by the Suriname-based Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA), is however exempted from that list. Dubbed the Caricom Rapid Exchange System for Dangerous Non-food Consumer Goods (CARREX),…
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Caribbean Export Strengthens Relations in the Dominican Republic
Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) Pamela Coke-Hamilton addressed an audience of beneficiaries and key partners and extended congratulations to the firms that recently were awarded grants under the Agency’s Direct Assistance Grant Scheme on Tuesday August 12, 2014 at the Embassy Suites, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Throughout the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) programme Caribbean…
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Cayman establishes regional HIV evaluation
Government officials are working with British and Dutch overseas Caribbean territories to strengthen the region’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As part of the evaluation process, team leader and international consultant Dr. Roberto Gutierrez-Ortega from Nicaragua, and sexual health and social protection expert Dr. Katarina Greifeld of Germany, upon request of the European Commission, met with MLA Alva Suckoo, councilor…
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Tobago Readies New Anti-Crime Plan
Tobago’s government is planning a new push to combat crime, according to Chief Secretary Orville London. The new plan involves more cameras, the creation of a canine unit and greater surveillance at ports of entry, London said. The plan, drafted by Tobago’s Assistant Commissioner of Police, Brian Headley, also dealt with the question of manpower in the police service. London…
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PASCF Statement on Reparations Owed
Following the historic London Reparations March from Brixton to 10 Downing Street organised by the Rastafari Movement in Britain on 1st August 2014, the PASCF issues the following statement – they all owe us: The Capitalists, the Working Class and the Trade Union Movement all owe Reparations to Afrikan People The enslavement of Afrikan people created unprecedented levels of wealth…
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AIDS 2014: Key Messages/Lessons for the Caribbean
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twentieth International AIDS conference is over. Far from over, however, is what must be done on this “last climb” to end the epidemics of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 2030, “leaving no one behind”. This is even of more pressing concern, given the fact of an almost gone MDG era and, in this…
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Barbados to Host Meeting of Latin American, Caribbean Tourism Ministers
Barbados will soon play host to the 22nd Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Tourism. The meeting, which will be held Sep. 3 and 4 in Bridgetown, will take place under the theme of “Tourism Competitiveness: An Essential Component of Sustainability.” Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy and Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza signed a…
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Jamaica braces for Ebola Disease
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Caribbean news. The Ministry of Health says it is strengthening its preparedness measures and will increase efforts to make Jamaicans become more vigilant about the Ebola virus currently plaguing West Africa. This follows a recent meeting led by Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson with health officials including Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse. Dr DuCasse explained that while Jamaica…
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Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean “Low” says CARPHA, but Preparation Needed
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 06, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low. Executive Director of CARPHA, Dr. C. James Hospedales said “There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in the Caribbean, and overall, the risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus…
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Canadian Municipalities share LED Knowledge in Caribbean
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: The Borough of Point Fortin hosted the final site visit of Councillor Michael Thompson, a Program Steering Committee member for the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED). Councillor Thompson concluded a one week monitoring mission that began in Guyana on July 20, 2014. His three day mission to Guyana included site visits to two…
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