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Branson’s Carbon War Room, Invest Caribbean Now To Put The Spotlight On Renewable Energy
Sir Richard Branson (3rd from l.) and Caribbean leaders following the Carbon War Room’s ‘10 Island Renewable Challenge on Feb. 10, 2014. (CWR image) CaribPR Wire, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. May 12, 2014: Strategies for Caribbean governments to transition to green energy will be put in the spotlight this June 4th at the Harvard Club in New York City as…
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Caribbean’s First Diplomatic Academy Opens in Trinidad
The new Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean officially opened at the University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus in Trinidad on Tuesday. Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was on hand for the opening of the academy, which is a joint project between the government of Trinidad and Tobago, the Trinidad Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UWI’s…
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St Kitts Reports Major Drop in Crime
St Kitts and Nevis is reporting a significant drop in crime, according to new data from the Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force. According to the new data, the island reported a 70 percent dip in crime in April compared to the same month in 2013. “Despite our challenges, it is very clear that crime has trended down in…
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St Lucia Announces Plan to Join Caribbean Court of Justice
St Lucia is planning to accede to the Caribbean Court of Justice as the country’s final court of appeal, the government announced this week. “My Government will therefore follow the lead of the Commonwealth of Dominica and proceed, pursuant to section 41(7) of our Constitution, to advise Her Majesty’s Government that it wishes to give effect to the international Agreement…
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MINISTRY OF HEALTH ON VERGE OF RAPID HIV TESTING
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 09, 2014 (SKNIS): The St. Kitts and Nevis Ministry of Health is on the verge of offering Point of Care (POC) Rapid Testing as a means of scaling up prevention and early detection of HIV. The National AIDS Secretariat in the Ministry of Health has informed that Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) Providers are currently in…
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CCJ orders Guyana to repay Surinamese beverage company US$6 million in environmental tax
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday ordered Guyana to repay a Surinamese beverage manufacturer more than US$6 million in environmental tax that had been levied on non-returnable bottles because it amounts to a discriminatory import duty that violates Caricom’s Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC). The CCJ took note of the fact that the Guyana government had taken steps…
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Guyana and Suriname participate in Arab-South America culture meeting
By Ray Chickrie Caribbean News Now contributor RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Guyana and Suriname, both members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), participated in the third Arab-South America (ASPA) culture ministers meeting last week between the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Arab League members in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The meeting ended on Wednesday. The Arab and South American…
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Haiti takes new step toward organizing crucial elections
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) — Haiti's President Michel Martelly issued on Tuesday an executive order to appoint a new provisional electoral council as provided by a political agreement signed in March to facilitate crucial legislative and local elections to avoid a looming political crisis in the Caribbean country. In the executive order, Martelly named nine members of the electoral council, but…
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IDB to launch new online tool for agriculture policy analysis in the Caribbean
WASHINGTON, USA — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will launch on Thursday, May 8 the Agrimonitor Producer Support Estimate (PSE) Agricultural Policy Monitoring System, an online tool for agricultural analysis with the goal of improving farming policies and practices in Latin America and the Caribbean, during a workshop at its headquarters. The IDB believes this quantitative tool, designed by Stanford…
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