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Commission committed to eliminating HIV stigma
The National HIV/AIDS Commission is actively working towards the goal of having an AIDS free, HIV stigma and discrimination free generation by 2020. Director of the Commission, Jacqueline Wiltshire Gay says they are hoping to make significant progress during the next strategic period, which will be guided by the National Strategic Plan 2014-18 for HIV: Investing for Results. Wiltshire Gay…
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Barbados, Eastern Caribbean youth for animation, software development training
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Four hundred young men and women in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean will be equipped to participate in the global multi-billion dollar mobile application and animation industries. The Caribbean Development Bank, along with partners, will fund training under the Caribbean Animation and Technology Capacity Building Programme (Carib-AniTech). CDB will jointly finance the two-year capacity building programme which…
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Training In Workflow Management Systems
Over 20 Barbadian frontline personnel are now better equipped to streamline information to facilitate improved access to data under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and to better share this information among national and regional authorities. This was stated by Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, Sonja Welch, as she delivered the feature address to open a two-day…
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Barbados Prime Minister for CARICOM Inter-sessional Meeting
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is scheduled to leave the island tomorrow, Wednesday, February 25, to attend the Twenty-Sixth Inter-sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which gets under way in The Bahamas, from February 26 to 27. As incoming Chair of the regional group, Barbados’ Prime Minister will be a member of the Bureau of the…
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Final push to launch U.N. negotiations on High Seas Treaty
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20 2015 (IPS) – The United Nations will make its third – and perhaps final – attempt at reaching an agreement to launch negotiations for an international biodiversity treaty governing the high seas. A four-day meeting of a U.N. Ad Hoc Working Group is expected to take a decision by Friday against a September 2015 deadline to begin…
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Former Barbados Prime Minister addresses integration challenges
Former Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur says while the decision in 1989 to transform CARICOMeconomies into a single market and economy was one of the most momentous decisions in the history of the Caribbean, “it was a transformation that was never going to be easily achieved.” Delivering the guest lecture at the Institute of International Relations at the St. Augustine campus…
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Barbados launching renewable energy education
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 08 2015, CNS – Renewable energy education is about to be launched in Barbados. That is how the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic’s (SJPP) Acting Curriculum Development Industrial Liaison Officer Audrey Jones-Drayton has described the introduction of the island’s first ever training course in photovoltaic installations which will be offered at the tertiary institution. Explaining the rationale behind…
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CPDC launches regional campaign against poverty and inequality
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 14, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Policy Development Center (CPDC) says it will launch its Action/2015 Caribbean campaign on Thursday as part of the larger global Action/2015 campaign to end poverty, inequality and bring attention to significant climate change issues. CPDC said 2015 is the year for critical international meetings charged with determining the future of humanity…
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