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Haiti’s Private Sector Discusses Bi-national Trade Issues
Haiti’s Private Sector Economic Forum (FESP) and Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIH) organized a workshop on commercial relations and trade of goods and services between Haiti and the Dominican Republic on April 21st with the support of The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export). The event, which was attended by key private sector representatives from the Haitian industrial sector,…
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Generational shift threatens global progress against HIV
Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Haiti has frequently been cited as one of the bright spots in the world’s battle against HIV/AIDS. The country, the poorest in the western hemisphere, saw its rate of new HIV infections plummet by more than 50 percent from 2004 to 2012. AIDS-related deaths have…
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Haiti lone Caribbean nation to win IDB energy innovation contest
WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Tuesday April 7, 2015, CMC – Haiti is the lone Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country named among the winners of the IDEAS V 2014 Energy Innovation Contest, an initiative by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for improving energy efficiency and expanding access to renewable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB said that the other winners…
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Haiti’s Essential Oil Producers Receive Best Practice Training
Haiti’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIH) organized a best practices sharing mission for experts from the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) in Haiti from 10 to 13 March 2015 with the support of The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export). Haiti’s essential oils sector represents the country’s largest export sector, in particular the production of vétiver oil a main component…
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Caribbean Export, OAS partner to enhance businesses through ICT
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in collaboration with the Organization of American States (OAS) partnered with the Information and Communication Technology (CTIC) for the implementation of a training programme for ICT Advisors from 11 CARICOM countries. The countries are Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and…
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GHESKIO Opens New Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti
In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Haitian Study Group on Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma, or GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat patients suffering from the disease. The hospital's opening comes five years after a catastrophic earthquake crippled Haiti's infrastructure and destroyed the five major TB hospitals in the capital city,…
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Caribbean Export Awards €700,000 to Agri-business and Handicraft Firms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has awarded €700,000 to 31 firms and Business Support Organizations (BSOs) in Haiti and the Dominican Republic via the Binational Grants Programme, as part of the Haiti/Dominican Republic Binational Programme, Commerce Component, funded by the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF). The announcement was made at the launch and reimbursement workshops…
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EPA Capacity-Building Project Launched
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-based Caribbean Forum of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (CARIFORUM) Directorate, in collaboration with key partners, launched a €3,099,915 Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)-centered Capacity-building Project, in Georgetown, Guyana on 25 March. The Project’s specific objective is to contribute to the effective implementation of the CARIFORUM-EU EPA, with…
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Cholera coalition urges stepped-up support of water for Haiti
(PAHO/WHO) — On World Water Day 2015, the Regional Coalition for Water and Sanitation to Eliminate Cholera in Hispaniola is calling for stepped-up support from the international community to help Haiti and the Dominican Republic end the cholera epidemic on their shared island. The Regional Coalition has been supporting efforts by the two countries to expand access to water and sanitation…
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Caribbean Export supports Haiti and the Dominican Republic at the 18th International Hotel Investment Forum 2015
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) supported the participation of the Centre for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) and the Center for Facilitation of Investments (CFI) of Haiti, at the 18th International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) 2015 in Berlin, Germany from March 2-4, 2015. Caribbean Export organized this mission within the framework of the Haiti/Dominican Republic Binational…
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