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Hub and Spokes Programme: providing critical Trade Support to Caribbean economies
Georgetown, Guyana (April 23, 2018) – Caribbean development partners and beneficiaries of the Hub and Spokes Programme, an aid-for-trade initiative, began a three-day regional planning workshop (April 23 – 25), with appreciation of the programmes tangible impact on the ground. The workshop is being held at the Guyana Marriott Hotel Georgetown, Guyana. Caribbean Country beneficiaries and Advisers will work to develop…
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Name change on the horizon for ACP Grouping
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Georgetown Agreement, which was signed in the capital of Guyana in 1975, bringing into being the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, is undergoing a wide-ranging revision that could result in the 79-member grouping being referred to as the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACP). Last week, diplomats from the ACP region met…
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Prepare for impact of Brexit but don’t panic, CARICOM told
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thursday June 30, 2016 – A University of the West Indies (UWI) forum held yesterday to discuss the impact of the UK’s pending exit from the European Union brought some advice for CARICOM – prepare for the potential fallout. At the same, there’s a suggestion that there won’t be any crisis. During the forum, the UWI Vice Chancellor…
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Improved markets important to farming sector
Fresh produce markets in the Caribbean should ideally be a space for sellers, buyers and visitors, including tourists, to ‘circulate’. There would be no front and no back in the new stylish circular, domed-roof model agricultural market. That’s the vision recommended in an ‘assessment of the adequacy of marketing infrastructure with specific focus on the needs of small farmers’ that…
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Caribbean countries to benefit from EU funds
BRUSSELS, Mar 11, CMC – Caribbean countries are expected to benefit from funds being made available to the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) that has now come into full force. The European Commission announced the full entry into force of the EDF, regarded as a cornerstone of the EU's international cooperation and…
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100TH Session of the ACP Council of Ministers
BRUSSELS, 12 December 2014. The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Council of Ministers met in Brussels from 9-12 December 2014 in its 100th Session since the inception of the ACP Group of States as an international organization in 1975, as enshrined in the Georgetown Agreement. Honourable Minister Alva R. Baptiste, Minister of External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of…
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Guyana H. E. Dr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes selected as the new Secretary-General of the ACP
Press Release (Dec 10, 2014) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pleased to announce that today, December 10, 2014, at the 100th Session of the Council of Ministers of the African, Pacific and Caribbean Group of States (ACP), held at ACP Headquarters in Brussels, Guyana's Ambassador to Belgium and the European Community, His Excellency Dr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes, was selected…
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