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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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TrulyCaribbean.Net Launches “Caribbean Girls Can Code” Campaign
To coincide with the international celebration of Girls in ICT Day on April 24, 2014, http://www.trulycaribbean.net has a series of stories on women who code. According to the founder Nerissa Golden, the campaign provides videos of women of Caribbean heritage who develop web applications, solve real world issues and are making a difference in their communities and in the technological…
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Dominica hosts seventh regional CaribNOG meeting
ROSEAU – Regional and international technology experts are gathering in Dominica to address Caribbean technology challenges and to collaboratively derive solutions that are relevant to the region. The Caribbean Network Operators Group, CaribNOG, is hosting its seventh regional meeting in the island’s capital city, Roseau, from April 28 to May 2. CaribNOG is a forum for network technicians and technology…
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CARICOM: More Dialogue to Come on Martinique and Guadeloupe
Following Martinique Regional Council President Serge Letchimy’s historic visit to the CARICOM Heads of Government conference in St Vincent this year, CARICOM is continuing to explore the possibility of accepting Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana as associate members. That was revealed this week by CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, who said that CARICOM was “in the process of understanding…
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Grenada, Netherlands Sign Agreements on Sustainable Development
Grenada and the Netherlands have signed a pair of memoranda of understanding on sustainable development. The two agreements will see the provision of around $1.85 million USD to Grenada; the two countries will work together to attract an additional $1.85 million USD from Dutch private sector banks and businesses. The agreements, which were signed in The Hague on Thursday by…
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Call for CARICOM to Implement Consumer Protection Model Law
State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, has called on CARICOM member states to implement the Consumer Protection Model Law. Mrs. Ffolkes-Abrahams said the legislation has been in the draft stage for “far too long.” The Bill, which falls under Chapter eight of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, speaks to the need for the promotion…
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Jamaica to Tax Bank Withdrawals
amaica’s government is planning a new measure that would impose a levy on withdrawals from banks. Part of a revenue-raising scheme for a government that continues to be in a serious debt situation, the levy “will be chargeable on all withdrawals from deposit-taking institutions by way of electronic banking, point of sale transactions, cheques, automated banking machine (ABM), automated teller…
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Agriculture 2014 Open Day promisses fun, food and education
Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 23rd, 2014 (SKNIS): The Agriculture Department will host its annual Agriculture Open Day this Thursday and Friday April 24 and 25 from 9a.m. at the Agriculture Department grounds in La Guerite, Basseterre. The theme for this year’s Open Day is “Agriculture: Moving in the Right Direction”. The annual focuses on promoting the work of local farmers…
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Young People Urged to Take Up Reparation Struggle
Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, Professor Hilary Beckles, has charged young people across the Caribbean to take up the reparation struggle and carry on the conversation until the region has received justice. “This subject is going to go forward and we are going to have justice only when young people step up and play their role,” Professor Beckles said.…
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CARICOM youth ambassador delighted with youth participation in human rights consultation
BASSETERRE, St Kitts — Sonia Boddie, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassador for the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis, was a part of the youth contingent selected from across the region, to participate in the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and Aids (PANCAP) Caribbean Consultation on Justice for All and Human Rights Agenda, convened under the theme “Advancing Justice for ALL…
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