Press Releases
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CDF REPORTS SATISFACTORY PROGRESS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) THE CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) is reporting satisfactory progress in its work, as a team led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, has commenced a series of consultative missions to Less Developed Countries (LDCs) in CARICOM. During the mission’s recent visit to Antigua and Barbuda, Ambassador McDonnough updated the media on…
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CARICOM GETS HELP FROM SPAIN TO FIGHT CERVICAL CANCER
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues to battle lifestyle- related diseases, Jamaica is the first Member State to benefit from three colposcopes donated by the Government of Spain to boost the country’s capacity to detect early signs of cervical cancer. This special microscope used to detect signs of cervical cancer will be presented to…
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CARICOM LEADERS TO LOOK AT BEST PRACTICES TO COMBAT GLOBAL CRISIS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) needed to deduce best practice responses of individual Member States to the global financial and economic crisis that could be emulated by the entire Community. This was the view expressed yesterday, Friday, by Dr Maurice Odle, Economic Adviser to the CARICOM Secretary-General as he pointed out that the global…
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CARIBBEAN PROTOCOL TO TACKLE SWINE FLU COMING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In a region where people move freely, there is growing concern in the Caribbean over the spread of the H1N1 Virus, and this has prompted Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) in Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to meet in an emergency session to craft protocols specific to the Region on how to tackle…
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NEW PUBLIC HEALTH BODY, PANCAP FOR DISCUSSION BY CARICOM LEADERS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The consolidation of five institutions that provide public health services in the Caribbean Community and the operation of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/Aids (PANCAP) Coordinating Unit will be among the issues in the health sector that will be up for discussion by CARICOM Heads of Government when they meet in Guyana 2-5 July…
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TOURISM ON AGENDA AT HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Tourism, Agriculture, Services, Free Movement of Skills within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) are among the major agenda items in the Economic Development cluster of the upcoming Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Conference will…
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CLIMATE CHANGE HIGH ON CARICOM SUMMIT AGENDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) When the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government meet in Georgetown, Guyana, July 2-5, 2009, matters of importance on the climate change agenda will be among global issues that will engage their attention. CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington told representatives of the regional media Friday 19 June 2009 that the issue of climate…
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CORPORATE GUYANA ON BOARD FOR CARICOM 10K RUN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, greater Georgetown, Guyana) Some of the leading businesses in Guyana have thrown their full support behind the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Annual 10K Road Race set to take place in Guyana on 28 June 2009. To date, Digicel and Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company Limited (GTM), John Fernandes Insurance Services Limited, Ansa Mcal, Hand–in-Hand…
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Alika Morgan Set for Caricom 10k Race
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana’s Alika Morgan, reigning female champion for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Annual 10K Road Race is set to compete on home turf when the fifth staging of the 10K Race opens on Sunday 28 June, just a couple of days before the 30th Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government in Guyana. A fifth victory…
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CARICOM SEEKS TO IMPROVE TREATMENT OF CERVICAL CANCER IN THE REGION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Gynaecologists and obstetricians within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be better equipped to detect and treat early stages of Cervical Cancer following their participation in a series of training interventions in colposcopy and treatment of pre-invasive cervical cancer. Colposcopy is a medical diagnostic procedure which uses a special microscope (Colposcope) to examine…
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