Press Releases
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PANCAP PARTNERS MEET TO STRENGTHEN CARIBBEAN AIDS RESPONSE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Consensus on priority programmes and needs, and increased national leadership to sustain the regional AIDS response are among the expected outcomes of a meeting of national AIDS programme managers, donors and regional partners on October 21-23, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad, in Port of Spain. With funding from the PANCAP Round 9 Global…
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STATEMENT ON THE RULING OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ON NATIONALITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community is deeply concerned by the ruling of 23 September 2013, of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on nationality which modifies retroactively legislation which bestowed citizenship on persons born in the Dominican Republic during the period 1929-2010. As a result of the ruling, which considers migrants entering the Dominican Republic…
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Assistant Secretary-General underscores importance of statistics to CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations Directorate at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, on Tuesday said statistics played a vital role in the Community because “it is crucial in providing data for evidence-based policies that can guide and monitor progress at the country and regional levels.” Ambassador Granderson was speaking at…
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MESSAGE BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF CARIBBEAN STATISTICS DAY Georgetown, Guyana 15 October 2013
Statistics has been playing a significant part in the evolution of our Community through the provision of data based upon which decisions could be guided. It is a happy coincidence that such an important element of the Region’s social and economic life, is celebrating the International Year of Statistics in the same year of the Community’s 40th Anniversary. Today, Tuesday,…
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Successful EUCARINET Policy Dialogue Workshop held in Georgetown Guyana:
The First Bi-Regional Dialogue (Caribbean–EU) Workshop under the EUCARINET Project was hosted by the CARICOM Secretariat in conjunction with the consortium of Project Partners from Europe and Caribbean, in April 2013 at the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana The Bi-Regional dialogue focused on addressing long-term strategies to strengthen existing cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) between Europe and…
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Commissioning of the Solar Photovoltaic Plant at the Government Complex in Antigua
In August 2013, a 25kW Solar PV demonstration plant was commissioned at the Government Headquarters Complex at the Ministry of Tourism in Antigua and Barbuda. This Project is part of the Strategy to Increase Sustainable Energy Awareness in the Public Sector (ISEAPS) through the installation of demonstration plants in high visibility public sector buildings. An energy audit of the complex…
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CARICOM Officials Participate in Study Tour to Germany from 22-28 September 2013
A group of nine energy and environment representatives of the Caribbean Community participated in a one week – 21/22 Sept to 28/29 Sept – visit to Germany, compliments of the German Federal Foreign Office Visitors Programme The participants engaged in a series of discussions with Officials from the German Federal Office, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the German…
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C-SERMS Framework Hailed as International Best Practice by the IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) representative, speaking at the Third Forum on Donor Coordination and Aid Effectiveness hosted by the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana on 31 July 2013, hailed the establishment of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS) framework by the CARICOM Secretariat as an international best practice. The C-SERMS seeks to provide a planning, management and…
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CREDP-GIZ Project Appraisal Workshop Held in Saint Lucia on 4 – 5 September 2013
The Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP-GIZ) Project, based in Saint Lucia, is the remaining component of original programme (the other being UNDP) which commenced in 2004. This second phase (CREDP-GIZ Phase II) which has been in progress since April 2008 has been extended until December 2013. The Project which is being implemented in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat under…
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CARIBBEAN Leadership Participants Analyse CARICOM Energy Policy and Sustainable Development Issues
The Caribbean Leadership Project (CLP), funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), Canada, aims to strengthen strategically the next generation of Caribbean mean and women leaders to contribute more effectively to regional integration and economic growth. As part of the programme participants consisting of senior government officials are challenged to tackle “wicked problems” defined as those…
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