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  • Photo of CARICOM advancing climate change goals at COP22

    CARICOM advancing climate change goals at COP22

    CARICOM Member States are part of the global community of nations gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for this week’s start of the Climate Conference COP22, which is seeking to accelerate implementation of the agreement reached in Paris at COP 21 last December. CARICOM representatives are hoping to build on the gains from the Paris campaign, where they argued that the impact of climate change was an existential…

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  • Photo of Increased CSME Public Awareness for Guyana

    Increased CSME Public Awareness for Guyana

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat continues its drive to ensure that key stakeholders are knowledgeable about the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and its significant benefits. On Wednesday, November 2, a one-day CSME sensitization workshop is being convened in Guyana. Approximately 30 participants from private sector entities and rural organizations will assemble at the Guyana Marriott Hotel for information…

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  • Photo of Way forward identified on correspondent banking challenge – PM Browne

    Way forward identified on correspondent banking challenge – PM Browne

    Senior representatives of international financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, regulatory bodies, the European Union Commission, the OECD Global Forum, commercial banks, central banks, governments the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Caribbean Development Bank met in Antigua and Barbuda on 27 and 28 October 2016, under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Antigua…

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  • Photo of Needed: Regional strategic plan for agriculture

    Needed: Regional strategic plan for agriculture

    While work has been done to articulate the vision for agriculture in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a senior CARICOM Secretariat officials wants the Region to develop a regional strategic plan for agriculture. Mr. Joseph Cox, Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration at the CARICOM Secretariat stressed that the Region had to treat agriculture as a business and not as a…

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  • Photo of Regional statisticians seeking to further develop sector – LIVE

    Regional statisticians seeking to further develop sector – LIVE

    The region’s statisticians are today holding their ninth  Regional Statistical Research Seminar geared towards developing key recommendations  on the way forward for matters related to statistics. Today’s event concludes a week-long series of engagements for the Statisticians, gathered in Willemstad, Curacao. Between Monday and Wednesday they convened the forty-first meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) under the theme…

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  • Photo of Special COTED to focus on agri investment, trade, help for Haiti

    Special COTED to focus on agri investment, trade, help for Haiti

    Technical officials in the agriculture sector on Tuesday morning began preparatory discussions ahead of the Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) in the Cayman Islands on Friday. The Ministerial Meeting is one of the key events of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) now underway in Grand Cayman under the theme ‘Investing in Food…

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  • Photo of CARICOM urged to ‘take a big view of agriculture’

    CARICOM urged to ‘take a big view of agriculture’

    GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Oct. 27, 2016 – Stakeholders in the regional agricultural sector have been urged to take “a big view of agriculture” as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations continue to highlight the importance of food production to its economic and social development. The call on Wednesday by Executive Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), Barton…

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  • Photo of Staying on track with global civil aviation developments – CCS

    Staying on track with global civil aviation developments – CCS

    As air transportation continues to be an important area of focus for the Region, the CARICOM Secretariat participated in the latest Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which establishes policy and reviews technical, economic and legal areas of the Organisation’s work. The Secretariat’s Adviser, Single Market, Sectoral Programme Ms Desiree Field-Ridley and Deputy Programme Manager, Transportation, Dr. Pauline…

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  • Photo of Role for public, private sectors in agriculture sector development

    Role for public, private sectors in agriculture sector development

    There are important investment roles for both the public and private sector in the Region’s quest to be competitive, for import substitution, alleviation of food security risks and for increased contribution to economic development. Speaking at the Opening Ceremony of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2016 in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said the opportunities were…

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  • Photo of Remarks  By  Ambassador Irwin Larocque Secretary-general Caribbean Community  At The Opening Ceremony  Of The  Fourteenth Caribbean Week Of Agriculture

    Remarks By Ambassador Irwin Larocque Secretary-general Caribbean Community At The Opening Ceremony Of The Fourteenth Caribbean Week Of Agriculture

    His Excellency Franz Manderson, Acting Governor of the Cayman Islands   Honourable Alden McLaughlin Premier, Cayman Islands;   Honourable Ministers of the Caribbean Community   Members of the Legislative Assembly   Honourable Matai Seremaiah Nawalu – Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity, Vanuatu;   Mr. Victor Villalobos – Director-General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA);   Mr.…

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