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Caribbean food production industry to receive US$469,000 in additional support
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has pumped an additional US$469,000 into the region’s specialty food sector via a supplemental grant to the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) under the Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration (CARTFund) Programme, which is funded by Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID). The region’s specialty foods include a range of…
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Britain announces aid programme for five Eastern Caribbean countries until 2020
LONDON, England — Hugh Walker (head of DFID Caribbean) has signed a joint letter of intent with St Vincent and the Grenadines on behalf of Desmond Swayne, Britain’s minister for international development. Walker said, “The United Kingdom is committed to the long-term development of the Caribbean. The Department for International Development (DFID) is starting a new set of development programmes…
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Support services for domestic workers and artisans moving to work in CSME countries launched
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Domestic workers and artisans in five countries who want to move to another country within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) now have access to support services through collaboration with the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) under the ‘Making CSME Work for Domestics and Artisans’ project. caricom-logo.jpg The project, operational in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts…
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Regional Symposium on Services
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than a hundred representatives of the Services Sector in the Caribbean will gather in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda to begin charting a more structured approach to the development of the Sector within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Chief Executive Officers of large, medium and small sized enterprises operating in…
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