Press Releases
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CARICOM AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY LAUNCH CARIBSAVE PROJECT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE) and the Caribbean Community Centre for Climate Change (CCCCC) have formed a partnership to address the impacts and challenges surrounding climate change, the environment, tourism and related sectors throughout the Caribbean region. The project is multi-sectoral, multi-objective and multi-donor in nature and is known as CARIBSAVE. Comprising…
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Statement on Bananas by Honourable. Charles Savarin, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Labour
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Commonwealth of Dominica welcomes this opportunity to speak on the issue of bananas. The future trading regime for bananas is a cause for great anxiety to the people of Dominica and other Caribbean States who have derived their livelihoods from the commodity over the last fifty years. Banana production in Dominica provides employment…
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LAST LAP FOR CARICOM YOUTH COMMISSION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 14-member CARICOM Commission on Youth Development is meeting on Monday, for the seventh and last time to add the finishing touches to their much anticipated Report. Co-chaired by UWI Professor Barry Chevannes and former Youth Ambassador Yldiz Beighle, the Commission, for the next three days, (7-9 December) will be locked into meetings…
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THIRD CARICOM/CUBA SUMMIT SET FOR DECEMBER 8
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba will gather in the city of Santiago de Cuba for their third Summit on 8 December 2008. An agenda which will include discussions on the financial, energy and food crises and on climate change and their impact on Caribbean countries as well as the sharing of…
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CARICOM LEADERS PRESS COMMONWEALTH G20 MEMBERS FOR A VOICE IN DISCUSSIONS AS AUSTRALIA MAKES $60 MILLION AVAILABLE TO THE REGION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Australia will make some $60 million (AUS) available over four years to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for cooperation in a number of areas of special mutual interest. These areas are: climate change, disaster risk reduction and emergency management; regional integration including trade facilitation; education, including in the fields of science and technology, provision of…
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WE MUST FACE HEAD ON, THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD AND NUTRITION INSECURITY – AMBASSADOR IRWIN LA ROCQUE, CARICOM ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary-General Trade and Economic Integration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has emphasised the urgency for action on food and nutrition security in the Region. Delivering remarks at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Policy and Food Nutrition Security in the Caribbean on Monday November 30, 2009, in…
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STOP TALKING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY – FAO REPRESENTATIVE IN GUYANA TELLS AGRICULTURE SPECIALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) of the United Nations in Guyana, on Monday charged specialists in the agriculture and trade arena to take affirmative action for food and nutrition security in the Region. She was addressing delegates at the Workshop for the Formulation of a Regional Food…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS COMMIT TO STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors on Monday, with the strong support from directors of youth affairs resolved to approach their mandate more seriously, and work assiduously to implement strategies to strengthen and sustain the CARICOM Youth Ambassador Programme (CYAP). Twenty-seven youth ambassadors met jointly with their directors of youth affairs at the Courtyard Marriott…
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STATEMENT BY THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO) MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE, 30 NOVEMBER – 2 DECEMBER 2009, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
This 7th WTO Ministerial Conference offers an opportunity to reaffirm our collective commitment to a trading system that brings real benefits to all WTO Members through a genuinely inclusive, transparent and multilateral process. In this context, there are a number of issues that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would wish to highlight. First, CARICOM is exceedingly distressed by attempts to recalibrate…
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CARICOM LEADERS PRESS COMMONWEALTH G20 MEMBERS FOR A VOICE IN DISCUSSIONS AS AUSTRALIA MAKES $60 MIL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Australia will make some $60 million (AUS) available over four years to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for cooperation in a number of areas of special mutual interest. These areas are: climate change, disaster risk reduction and emergency management; regional integration including trade facilitation; education, including in the fields of science and technology, provision of…
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