Press Releases
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CARICOM AND US SIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) today in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. CARICOM Chairman, His Excellency Michel Martelly, the President of Haiti and Mr Joseph Biden the Vice President of the United States signed on behalf of the two sides. The signing ceremony took…
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COTED focuses on transportation
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Enhanced cooperation among regional airlines and the feasibility of providing a fast ferry service in the Community to boost transportation will be among the main topics Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Transport will consider on Wednesday in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Discussions will be held during a special meeting of the Council of…
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The Bahamas forging ahead with EPA Implementation
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Bahamas is poised to finalize its National Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Plan, the major elements of which are expected to put national authorities and non-state stakeholders on a better footing regarding the implementation of the Agreement. On May 29, a Validation Meeting will be convened in Nassau, The Bahamas, at which representatives…
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EARLY LEVEL PROMOTION OF CREATIVITY A NECESSITY – COHSOD HEARS
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been challenged to begin fostering creativity and innovation from the earliest levels of education as a deliberate strategy for the sustainable development of the Region. At the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) that focuses on education and culture, speakers…
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CARICOM ENERGY POLICY APPROVED BY ENERGY MINISTERS AT FORTY-FIRST SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COTED ON ENERGY
he Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy, inter alia, Ministers of Energy approved the CARICOM Energy Policy. The significance of this decision was highlighted by the Honourable Rayburn Blackmoore who was also Chairman of the Special COTED in his observation at the Opening Session that the adoption of the policy was “historic, bearing…
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THE CARICOM ENERGY POLICY IN BULLETS
GOAL/VISION: Fundamental transformation of the energy sectors of the Member States of the Community through the provision of secure and sustainable supplies of energy in a manner which minimizes energy waste in all sectors, to ensure that all CARICOM citizens have access to modern, clean and reliable energy supplies at affordable and stable prices, and to facilitate the growth of…
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PANCAP HOLDS THIRD CAPACITY-BUILDING WORKSHOP FOR PLH
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Approximately fifty persons living with HIV (PLH) from 16 Caribbean countries will be trained at a capacity-building workshop hosted by the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS Coordinating Unit (PANCAP) and the Caribbean Network for People Living with HIV and AIDS. With funding support from the Global Fund Round 9 Grant, the workshop…
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Statisticians zone in on distinction between travel, tourism
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Travel is not equivalent to Tourism. This was a key message that was impressed upon participants at a Regional Workshop on Travel and International Tourism Consumption, hosted by the Central Statistics Office, Roseau, Dominica, 14–17 May, 2013. Workshop participants were advised that while travel and tourism were strongly related, they were not totally overlapping.…
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Statisticians zone in on distribution between travel, tourism
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Travel is not equivalent to Tourism. This was a key message that was impressed upon participants at a Regional Workshop on Travel and International Tourism Consumption, hosted by the Central Statistics Office, Roseau, Dominica, 14–17 May, 2013. Workshop participants were advised that while travel and tourism were strongly related, they were not totally overlapping.…
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Communiqué issued at the conclusion of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations, 14-15 May 2013, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) took place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 14-15 May 2013, under the chairmanship of the Honourable Winston Dookeran, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Council Meeting was attended by Senator the Hon. Maxine McClean, Minister…
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