Press Releases
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CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE-IICA signs agreement to strengthen agricultural cooperatives in the Caribbean
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jun 4, CMC – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says it will cooperate with the Regional Office for the Americas of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA-Americas) to promote and strengthen agricultural and agro-industrial cooperatives in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Under the terms of the technical cooperation agreement, the two organizations will…
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CARICOM youth ambassador praises CSME advocacy workshop
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — CARICOM Youth Ambassador Sonia Boddie has praised the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat for its hosting of a two-day CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYA) CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) advocacy workshop, funded by the European Union and held in Georgetown, Guyana from May 29 – 30, in which she participated. She noted that the workshop was certainly educational,…
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CARICOM Reducing Youth on Youth Violence programme to support youth violence reduction initiatives in St. Kitts and Nevis
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The capacity of the Cayon secondary school and community to deal with issues related to youth on youth violence should be significantly enhanced with the implementation of the Reducing Youth on Violence Pilot Programme in St. Kitts and Nevis. National consultations are currently being hosted in that country under the CARICOM – Spain ‘Reducing…
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Region needs to be prepared for data revolution
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) seeks to position itself to take advantage of the data revolution, it has been cautioned to prepare for an increased demand for information and a difference in the way it is collected and disseminated. Participants at a High Level Forum on Statistics held 26 May in Grenada were of…
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National Consultations for Reducing Youth on Youth Violence in CARICOM Member States go to Jamaica
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Youngsters from the Anchovy High School in St. James, Jamaica should soon be benefitting from a series of capacity building training workshops and other activities to build resilience, strengthen protective factors and reduce threats related to violence among students under the CARICOM – Spain ‘Reducing Youth on Youth Violence in CARICOM Member States Pilot…
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Professional statisticians’ body gets Board of Directors
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Philomen Harrison, Project Director, Regional Statistics, CARICOM Secretariat, is the President of the Board of Directors of the newly formed Caribbean Association of Caribbean Statisticians (CAPS). Dr. Harrison was named President at the first meeting of the CAPS held in St. George’s, Grenada, on Thursday. The other Members of the Board are: Vice…
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EU willing to fund study on cost of not having CARICOM – Envoy
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The European Union (EU) is willing to fund a study that would explore the opportunity costs of not having a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in place. Mr. Ewout Sandker, Head of Cooperation, Delegation of the EU to Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago and the Dutch Overseas Countries and Territories, made the announcement on Monday…
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More official commitment, resources needed – High Level Forum agrees
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Participants at a high level meeting on Monday underscored the need for increased advocacy for more official commitment to statistics and the mobilization of additional resources for the field. Those were among the issues that stakeholders in the field of statistics identified as critically important to the overall development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).…
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Remarks by the Secretary General – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque at the Opening ceremony of the CARICOM Youth Ambassador CARICOM Single Market and Economy advocacy workshop GEORGETOWN, GUYANA 29-30 MAY 2014
It is always a pleasure for me to be a part of any activity involving the youth of our Community and even moreso when it involves the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs). Your energy and enthusiasm are a source of inspiration to me and a positive force for driving the integration process in our Community. This positive vibration is needed as…
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Remarks by Ms El Iza Mohamedou Deputy Secretariat Manager Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), Partnership in Statistics for development in the Twenty-First Century (PARIS21) at the Opening Ceremony of the Second High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics St. George’s, Grenada 26 May, 2014
The International community is convinced that to reduce poverty and improve living standards in developing countries, it is necessary to promote the integration of statistics and reliable data in the decision-making process. Indeed, the effects of the financial crisis of 2008 are still being felt all over the world with a slow economic recovery. Moreover, inequalities and the poverty have…
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