Press Releases
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PANCAP Partners Commit to High Impact Cost Effective Interventions For Sustaining HIV Response
Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) partners committed to implementing high impact cost effective interventions to sustain national and regional responses. This commitment was made at the Fourth Annual Meeting of National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners, which concluded today, 17th March 2016 in Trinidad and Tobago. The meeting’s participants were challenged to identify the…
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Remarks by the Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean And Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque at the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Third Meeting of the CARIFORUM Council of Ministers GEORGETOWN, Guyana
In welcoming you all to this Meeting of the Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM, allow me to extend a special greeting to those Ministers attending their first meeting of this Council. Included among them is today’s Chairman, the Honourable Jean Max Bellerive of Haiti. Also attending their first Meeting of this Council are the Honourable Paul Greene, Minister of Trade,…
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Now in French: The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas
First it was in only English. There Dutch. Now thanks to the Caribbean Regional Information and Translation Institute (CRITI) there is also a French version of The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) including the CSME. On Monday evening, Chair of the Advisory Committee, CRITI, Ms. Annette Tjon Sie Fat and Executive Director Mr. Hendrik Alimahomed made a…
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CARICOM, Kazakhstan sign support grant agreement
A US$770,000 grant support package will become available to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States from the Republic of Kazakhstan to strengthen capacity in the areas of climate change and sustainable development. CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Ambassador of Kazakhstan to CARICOM, H.E. Mr. Konstantin Zhigalov signed the agreement of financial support on Thursday 10 March 2016 at the Marriot…
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Antibiotics resistance – a growing concern for CARICOM
Community Institutions issue Joint Statement The CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) and the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) have expressed concern about the new global threat of antibiotics resistance. In a Joint Statement issued on the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day to be observed on 15 March 2016, the CARICOM institutions explained the associated challenges and dangers…
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PANCAP Convenes Fourth Annual National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners Meeting
The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Caribbean Office and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), will convene the Fourth Annual Meeting of National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners under the theme “Universal Access…
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Dominica develops Draft National Agriculture Policy, Action Plan
The CARICOM Secretariat, under the Agriculture Policy Programme (APP), is financing the development of a Policy and Action Plan for the Commonwealth of Dominica’s agriculture sector. This process, which is being led by the Ministry of Agriculture of Dominica and an APP-supported local consultant, has, to date, developed a first draft document which will be the subject of validation meetings…
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CARICOM continually accesses performance -SG
As International Development Partners (IDPs) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet to examine the priority areas for development in the Community and to match the IDPs interests and resources with those priorities, the IDPs have been assured that CARICOM continually assesses its performance. CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque told the opening of the Fourth High-Level Donor Forum, underway at the…
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CARICOM, Australia strengthen ties
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Australia continue to strengthen an already rewarding relationship, which among other things, has seen 128 CARICOM nationals benefitting from major scholarship programmes and leadership awards. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Wednesday 9 March accepted the Letters of Credence from new Australian Ambassador to CARICOM, Mr. John Pilbeam, at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.…
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Saint Lucian Tertiary Students Head to Suriname
The CARICOM Secretariat is winding down the project ‘Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotion’ with the first of the final three missions for 2016 getting underway this Monday, March 14. Nineteen Saint Lucian tertiary students from the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) and one CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) are traveling to Suriname for the week-long mission. They are…
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