COTED

June 6, 2024
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Special COTED Meeting Discusses Transportation Matters

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers with responsibility for Transportation, met on Thursday, 6 June for a special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development that dealt with transportation matters. Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Lead for Transportation in the CARICOM Quasi-Cabinet, chaired the half-day, virtual meeting that saw the participation of…
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November 28, 2022
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Remarks by Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, Opening 55th Meeting of COTED, 28 November 2022

Honourable, Alva Baptiste, Minister of External Affairs International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs of Saint Lucia and Chair of Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED); Other Honourable Ministers and Heads of Delegations; Representatives of Regional Institutions; Distinguished Delegates; Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my pleasure to say a few words of welcome to this Fifty-Fifth Regular Meeting of…
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October 6, 2020
3,290

CARICOM Formulating Energy Security Strategy

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is moving to formulate an energy security strategy. To this end, a group is to be established to immediately begin working on the strategy, focusing on regional energy integration matters. Regional energy integration and security were among key matters around which there was significant agreement when CARICOM Minsters of Energy met during a special session of…
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COVID-19

June 27, 2020
2,796

Short-Term Digital Transformation Plan to be Ready by July Month-End

A short-term plan to fast-track responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Region’s digital sphere is to be ready for the approval of CARICOM Ministers of ICT by the end of July. Ministers agreed to the plan during a special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communication Technology, which was…
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COVID-19

May 15, 2020
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STATEMENT TO BE DELIVERED BY THE OECS ON BEHALF OF THE CARICOM GROUP IN GENEVA COVID-19 TRADE-RELATED MEASURES SPECIAL VIRTUAL MEETING OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL

Chair, thank you for the floor. This statement is delivered on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Group. At the outset, we wish to associate with the statement delivered [to be delivered] by Jamaica on behalf of the OACP. The Member States of CARICOM commend you, Mr. Chairman, for convening this Special Virtual Meeting of the General Council amidst the…
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May 7, 2020
2,909

CARICOM’s Trade and Economic Council approves strategy for the re-opening of regional economies

The fiftieth meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) this week approved a strategy for the re-opening of economies in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Council which is made up of Trade Ministers and officials agreed to a framework centered on the development and adherence to defined metrics related to the Covid-19 virus, which will guide in…
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April 22, 2020
2,522

CARICOM Digital Dialogue

THEME: Regional Resilience: ICT, STEM and Youth Chairperson: Jennifer Britton, Deputy Programme Manager, ICT4D, CARICOM Secretariat The CARICOM Digital Dialogue is organized by the CARICOM Girls in ICT Partnership. The Partnership was endorsed by the Ministers responsible for ICT at the Seventy-Ninth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), held on…
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March 23, 2020
3,899

Member States to Boost Food Production To Lessen COVID-19 Impact

While there are adequate supplies of food in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) now, the Region should galvanise local production to meet future demands. This was one of the recommendations contained in a framework document that Ministers of Agriculture have accepted in principle to deal with the availability and accessibility of food in CARICOM as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The Agriculture Ministers and…
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February 27, 2020
794

CARICOM Office for Trade Negotiations holds sensitization session

The Office for Trade Negotiations of the CARICOM Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday conducted a one-day sensitization session to inform key officials on how to identify and catalog existing non-conforming trade measures (NCMs). These measures refer to any law, regulation, procedure, requirement or practice, which do not conform to certain obligations under international trade…
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February 7, 2020
1,687

Creating Economic Opportunities for Organic Waste Management Sectors

(IICA Press Release) The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) through its programs Bioeconomy and Production Development and Climate Change, Natural Resources and Management of Production Risks, have identified the potential solution of developing a model based on composting technology (in its first stage). This model promotes the development of complex inter linkages between actors in the value chain,…
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