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C@ribnet demo makes impact at ICT Ministerial meeting
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers and delegates to the Caribbean Community’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), led by the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr the Rt Honourable Keith Mitchell, were given a demonstration of the cutting edge of technology in the Region. The opening in Grand Anse, Grenada of the…
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Opening Remarks By Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Secretary-General, Caribbean Community At The Forty-Eighth Special Meeting of the Council For Trade and Economic Development (COTED) On Information Communication and Technologies (ICT)
I am very pleased to welcome you, to this long overdue Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies. At the outset I must acknowledge the instrumental role of the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr the Rt. Honourable Keith Mitchell on whose initiative this critical Meeting is being held. It was the…
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CARICOM moves to harmonise literacy data
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is forging ahead with a programme designed to harmonise the measurement of literacy data to advance the production of reliable information for better decision making in this area. Education officials, statisticians and other experts gathered in Barbados on Tuesday and Wednesday for the CARICOM Fourth Technical Workshop on a Common…
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ICT in the Ministerial spotlight in Grenada this week
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers with responsibility for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will this week be preparing recommendations for the Heads of Government for the development of the sector. The Ministers’ recommendations will come out of discussions in Grenada this week at the 48th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development with a focus on. The Prime…
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CARICOM Secretary General reiterates call on Dominican Republic to “right terrible wrong”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has reiterated the Community’s call on the Dominican Republic to take steps to “right the wrong” resulting from a ruling on nationality made by the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic. The ruling retroactively stripped tens of thousands of nationals from the Dominican Republic, mostly…
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STATEMENT BY H.E. PETERSON BENJAMIN NOEL SPECIAL ENVOY PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE TO CARICOM
It is my pleasure to bring to you New Year greetings from His Excellency Michel Martelly and the people of the Republic of Haiti, my home country which has just celebrated its 210th year of independence on January 1st. Today’s ceremony recalls the tens of thousands of people who perished in the devastating earthquake 4 years ago. Haitian people, Hand…
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Remarks by the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion of the Presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Peterson Benjamin Noel Plenipotentiary Representative (DESIGNATE) of the Republic of Haiti To The Caribbean Community Georgetown, GUYANA 10 January 2014
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you, Ambassador Noel, as Haiti’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. Ambassador, you, however, are far from being a newcomer to our Community and this institution in particular. You were a pioneer in the Secretariat’s programme for attaching Haitian professionals to the organisation back in 2008, being the first Haitian government official…
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CARICOM Rallies to Assist Countries Affected by Christmas Rains
Bridgetown, Barbados, January 09, 2014 (CDEMA) – In excess of EC$ 3,000,000.00 in donations have been mobilised by the Caribbean Community since a trough system impacted St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Dominica over the Christmas holidays. Severe rains and high winds during the period December 23rd to December 25th, 2013 triggered flash flooding and landslides in St.…
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Haiti’s pride of place in history unquestionable – CARICOM Secretary-General
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has extended congratulations and best wishes to Haiti on the occasion of its 210th anniversary of independence celebrated on Wednesday, 1 January 2014. In a congratulatory message to His Excellency Michel Martelly, President of the Republic of Haiti, the Secretary-General said that Haiti’s pride of…
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