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CARIFORUM and EU reaffirm commitment to trade and development partnership
CARIFORUM and European Union (EU) trade officials held a one-day meeting in Grenada on Thursday 21 November, at which they reaffirmed the two regions' commitment to their close trade and development partnership. The two sides discussed progress made so far in putting the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) into practice. The EPA aims to promote trade and investment, underpin regional…
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Saint Lucia to Inaugurate and Chair CARICOM Task Force on Sustainable Development
The island's Minister for Sustainable Development, Hon. Dr. James Fletcher will chair the high-level meeting. The Government of Saint Lucia, on Thursday 19th June 2014, will host the first meeting of a High-Level CARICOM Task Force on Sustainable Development in the Conference Room of the Ministry of the Public Service, Information and Broadcasting. Saint Lucia’s Minister for Public Service, Sustainable Development,…
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CARICOM SPECIAL REP ON HAITI MAKES ANOTHER PLEA TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON PLEDGES TO HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Special Representative of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government on Haiti, the Most Honourable Percival Patterson, on Wednesday, expressed grave concerns to the United Nations Security Council that the ordinary Haitian was not feeling the impact of the recovery efforts to date. Mr Patterson acknowledged the efforts of the International Community in the reconstruction…
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DRUG ABUSE A THREAT TO REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager Sustainable Development, Ms Beverely Reynolds has made an impassioned plea for the Caribbean Countries and the European Union to strengthen the partnership in waging the war against the use of illicit drugs in the Caribbean Region, declaring that the Region’s sustainable development was seriously threatened by this social malady. Speaking…
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INTEGRAL LINK BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, FUNCTIONAL COOPERATION – DR. EDWARD GREEN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General Human and Social Development, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, has underscored the integral link between sustainable development and functional cooperation. According to Dr. Greene, the two elements both help to harness multi-sectoral, multi-cultural and inter-sectoral programmes around a common objective – the integration of the human and social factors of…
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