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CDB hosts Public-Private Partnerships ‘Boot Camp’ workshops for 40 regional participants
In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados. The Boot Camps are part of the US$1.2 million Regional PPP Support Program, which was launched in May 2015, in partnership…
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CTU hosts regional satellite communications workshop in Trinidad
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — An international workshop on satellite communications recently hosted by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) will strengthen the region’s ability to stay connected to the rest of the world after an extreme weather event or natural disaster. The workshop came just two weeks after Tropical Storm Erika devastated the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica in late August,…
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CDB hosts Public-Private Partnerships ‘Boot Camp’ workshops for 40 regional participants
In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados. The Boot Camps are part of the US$1.2 million Regional PPP Support Program, which was launched in May 2015, in partnership…
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CARICOM SG congratulates Trinindad and Tobago on the country’s 53rd Independence Anniversary
CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has congratulated the Government and People of Trinidad and Tobago on the country’s 53rd Independence Anniversary. The Twin-Island Republic celebrates its fifty-third birthday on Monday 31st August 2015. In a letter to Prime Minister Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Ambassador LaRocque credited the dynamism and creativity of the people as major factors in the country’s progress. The…
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Two Caribbean countries to benefit from fisheries project
(PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC) – Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries stand to benefit from a project to establish ecosystem-based shrimp and groundfish fisheries management in the Guianas-Brazil Shelf. The project is a joint investment by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The pilot project will be carried out as a collaboration…
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Trinidad Receives $40 Million CDB Loan for Energy Policy Changes
By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago has received a $40 million policy-based loan from the Caribbean Development Bank to help reinforce “policy changes” in the energy sector, the bank announced. The policy relates to a sustainable energy programme on which Trinidad embarked in 2011. The programme is designed to “enhance the ability of the regulatory and legal framework…
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Caribbean Public Health Agency aims to reduce child obesity by 2025
San Juan, (EFE).- The Caribbean Public Health Agency, or CARPHA, published a Plan of Action for Promoting Healthy Weights: 2014 – 2019, part of a push to reduce obesity among children and adolescents by 2025. CARPHA has an integrated strategy to address nutrition-related diseases in Caribbean countries, where the proportion of overweight or obese people is in the range of 28 percent to 35…
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Guyanese and Trinidadian nationals win CARICOM Annual 10k
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trinidad and Tobago’s Tonya Nero won the women’s leg of the CARICOM 10K Road Race for the third time in a row, when the event came off in St. John’s, Antigua/Barbuda on Sunday June 29 2014. Nero made it to the finish line in just over 38 minutes to claim the winning trophy along…
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Cybercrime in focus at ICT talks
A meeting of Caribbean Commonwealth officials with responsibility for ICT will bring the region’s eGovernance and cybercrime issues squarely into focus. The Caribbean Stakeholders’ Meeting on the Importance of ICTs and their Impact on Regional Development takes place in Port-of-Spain from today to Wednesday. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will deliver the feature address at the opening ceremony for the…
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