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JAMAICA TO HOST COHSOD AND ECOSOC MEETINGS, HEALTH AND EDUCATION PRIORITIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts to in preparation for a meeting of the…
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BELIZE AG CALLS FOR CHANGE IN APPROACH TO EDUCATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Belize’s Attorney General and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Honourable Wilfred Elrington has called for a “fundamental change” in the country’s approach to education. Speaking on the occasion of the launch of the Belize Coalition of Services Providers (BCSP), the minister said that emphasis should be placed on the service areas…
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QUALITY EDUCATION THE RESPONSE TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Seventeenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) opened today (17 November 2008) with a strong consensus that education, the driver of national and regional development is the most critical response to the social and economic global challenges now confronting the Region. The four speakers who addressed the Opening Ceremony…
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FORGING PARTNERSHIPS OUT OF COMMON OBJECTIVES : SPEECH BY DR. THE HONOURABLE DENZIL DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER, ST KITTS AND NEVIS, AT THE EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM OF THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON THE CARIBBEAN, 19 JUNE 2008, NEW YORK, USA
It is my pleasure to participate in this symposium on education and to share this panel with such distinguished speakers. This discussion could not be timelier. We in CARICOM Community are currently re-examining the scope and effectiveness of our overarching philosophy “education for all”. In New York, it is clear that you are grappling with the reality of the principle…
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EDUCATION AMONG KEY ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED AT NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON THE CARIBBEAN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The critical role of education in the development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be among the main issues participants of the New York Conference on the Caribbean will consider when they meet in an open session in Brooklyn, New York, USA, next week. The New York Conference on the Caribbean, which coincides with…
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Remarks By Ms Myrna Bernard, Director, Human Development, Caribbean Community (caricom) Secretariat On The Occasion Of The Launch Of The Caribbean Vocational Qualification (cvq), 19 October 2007, Kingston, Jamaica
Salutations I greet you on behalf of the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community. Today is a great day for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in our region and it is therefore for me, a great pleasure and privilege to bring you brief remarks on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat on the occasion of the launch of the Caribbean…
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AFRICAN DIASPORA CONFERENCE WANTS MORE AFRICAN-CENTRED EDUCATION IN THE REGION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The African Diaspora Conference has made a strong call for more emphasis to be placed on African-centred education in the Caribbean Region, noting the need for regional universities to introduce more structured programmes of teaching and research in African Studies and for regional authorities to standardise and recognise certification and qualifications in such disciplines.…
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EDUCATION MINISTER ADVOCATES PARTNERSHIPS FOR GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon. Hazel Manning, Education Minister of Trinidad and Tobago has underscored the role of education in human development and in the wider context of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Minister Manning was addressing the Experts Forum of the Conference on the Caribbean under the theme 'Addressing Quality and Equity in Social…
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO MARK THE THIRD YEAR OF THE CARIBBEAN ACCREDITATION AUTHORITY FOR EDUCATION IN MEDICINE AND OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONS, 13-15 MAY 2007, ROSE HALL, JAMAICA
It is my great pleasure to represent the Caribbean Community Secretariat and to bring you greetings on behalf of the Secretary-General, H.E. Mr Edwin Carrington and indeed the entire Caribbean Community. When the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions was inaugurated on July 14, 2004 in Kingston, Jamaica, it marked a watershed in a process…
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