Press Releases
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HAITIANS MAXIMISE RADIO TO SHARE INFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) With eight hundred thousand large and small farmers out of a population of nine million Haiti is said to have a vibrant agriculture sector. However among the longstanding challenges facing the sector is slow pace of information flow between policy makers, producers and the public. In order to overcome this information deficit, officials in…
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FAO ASSISTANCE TO BRIDGE COMMUNICATION DIVIDE IN REGIONAL AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Three Ministries of Agriculture in Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are in line to receive assistance to develop information and communication strategies as a first step towards mainstreaming communications in the work of the Ministries of Agriculture in the Region. While the Member States are yet to be finalised, the Food and…
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OCTOBER 15 IS CARIBBEAN STATISTICS DAY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Statistics Day will be observed throughout the Region on 15 October 2009. To mark the occasion, the Regional Statistics Programme of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has planned a series of activities under the theme `Better Statistics, Better Management, Better Development Outcomes’. The activities, which began on Monday 12 October, include a series…
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CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE CARIBBEAN FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean needs to have more investment in agriculture if the sector is to match the increasing demand to produce more food in order to ensure food security for the Caribbean. According to Jose Fonseca, a senior policy maker with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CTA), while the Caribbean continues to…
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STATEMENT ON CRICKET
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcomes the news that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) led by its President Dr Julian Hunte and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), led by its President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Dinanath Ramnarine, have agreed to a Memorandum of Agreement resolving all but two of the outstanding issues…
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AGRICULTURE EXPERTS CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH JOURNALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A major challenge facing the agriculture sector which needs to be addressed urgently is the lack of information from the sector to the public. To this end experts in agriculture from Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states have agreed that they must build relationship with journalists as a means of bridging the information divide.…
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MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF CARIBBEAN STATISTICS DAY 2009, 15 OCTOBER 2009, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, it is my pleasure to be involved in the activities marking Caribbean Statistics Day 2009. The observance of Caribbean Statistics Day follows closely on the heels of another important event recently held in Trinidad and Tobago, the High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics. That event and today’s commemoration both have the commendable goal of…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), O
Representatives of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Family Planning Association (UNFPA) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Asst. Secretary General, Trade and Economic Integration Dr. Philomen Harrison, Project Director, Regional Statistics, and other Colleagues of the SecretariatMembers of the Media It gives me great pleasure to launch the online…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY BHARRAT JAGDEO, PRESIDENT OF GUYANA AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE WICB-WIPA AGREEMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On behalf of the Caribbean Community I welcome the Agreement that has been reached between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players Association in the process of returning West Indies cricket to a more stable condition. I congratulate both the Board and WIPA on this important step in the direction which…
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CARICOM SUPPORTS HAITI THROUGH CAPACITY BUILDING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has embarked on a special and targeted intervention to assist Haiti in improving efficiency and professionalism in its Public Sector. One of the major objectives of the project, funded by Canada, is to build capacity in key areas of the Haitian Public Sector, especially those related to the operations of…
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