Press Releases
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CAPRI hosts Renewable Energy Forum in Jamaica
The Caribbean Policy Research Institute is executing a renewable energy (RE) Project aimed at supporting renewable energy policy frameworks as well as investments for renewable energy in Region. Much progress has been made, and in July 2013, CAPRI hosted a RE Forum at the UWI Mona Campus which attracted the participation of wide cross section of persons. It was concluded…
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CARICOM LEADERS HEAD FOR CELAC SUMMITS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government, Foreign Ministers and the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in Santiago, Chile this weekend to take part in two Summit Meetings. The first Summit of the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (CELAC) and the First Summit of CELAC and the European Union (EU) take place…
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Saint Lucia hosts regional workshops on multilateral environmental agreements
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Four Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) will come under focus later this month when two workshops are convened in Saint Lucia to address harmonized reporting by Caribbean countries, and the use of Integrated Environment Assessment (IEA) tools for mainstreaming those agreements into national policy development. The workshops, funded by the European Union, are executed by…
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CARICOM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION PRELIMINARY STATEME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission (CEOM) was invited by the Government of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis to observe the Nevis Island Assembly Elections held 22 January 2013. The Mission was tasked with the responsibility, among other things, of observing the electoral machinery specifically with respect to the conduct of the vote…
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Arrival statement of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) electoral observer mission of Nevis Island Assembly elections 21 january 2013
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was invited by the Government of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis to mount a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission (CEOM) to observe the Nevis Island Assembly Elections. In response to that invitation, a four member delegation, under the leadership of Chief of Mission, Ms. Pauline Welsh, Director of Legal…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL SHARES VISION IN CARICOM VIEW
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) moves into its fortieth year of existence, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has shared his vision for the advancement of the regional integration movement placing the Caribbean’s people at its core. In the December 2012 edition of the CARICOM View Magazine now published online at www.caricom.org the Secretary-General reflects…
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INFECTION FORMS DEADLY COMBINATION WITH HIV
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) What is probably among the most common and most deadly AIDS defining infections in the Guianas, the Amazon and Central America remains largely overlooked. Disseminated Histoplasmosis often mimics tuberculosis which can lead to false “drug-resistant tuberculosis”. The French Guiana AIDS Coordination system has been communicating for over a decade to alert the Caribbean (mainly…
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IRENA GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING
The Third General Assembly Meeting of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) was held on 13-14 January 2013 in Abu Dhabi, and the CARICOM Secretariat represented by its Programme Manager, Energy, participated as an Observer. Four CARICOM Member States were also represented, viz, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Guyana, and St. Vincent and Grenadines. The CARICOM Secretariat representative delivered a presentation…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEET IN HAITI 18-19 FEBRUARY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti will host the Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 18-19 February 2013. The arrangements for the meeting were agreed to at the Thirty-First Meeting of the Caribbean Community Council of Ministers when they met in Georgetown on Monday 14 January, 2013. It will be the…
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CARICOM GETS ‘GUYANA CLASSICS’
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) The Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony, Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sport of Guyana on Monday presented a number of publications to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. The publications, comprising the `Guyana classics’ series by authors such as Mr. Mark McWatt, Mr. Ian McDonald, Sir Walter Raleigh, Denis Williams, Sister Mary Menezes, Martin Carter, Charles Barrington…
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