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  • Photo of UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative

    UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday thank the Caribbean Community andAfrican Union for their role in the initiation and creation of a permanent memorial to honor victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The Memorial which is called the Ark of Return  was unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters. Rodney Leon, an architect of Haitian descent, living and working in New York, is the…

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  • Photo of UN Permanent Memorial to honour slavery victims for unveiling Wednesday

    UN Permanent Memorial to honour slavery victims for unveiling Wednesday

    The United Nations Permanent Memorial to Honour Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is scheduled to be unveiled on United Nations ground in New York on March 25, 2015. With the theme ‘Acknowledging the Tragedy; Considering the Legacy; Lest we forget’, the monument is being erected in an effort to acknowledge the tragedy of slavery, racial prejudice and the lingering consequences of the…

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  • Photo of University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd

    University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd

    University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd, has been invited by the United Nations to deliver the keynote address at the special commemorative sitting of the UN General Assembly on Friday. This special meeting of the UN has been called to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under the theme: 'Learning from Historical Tragedies to Combat…

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  • Photo of UN Secretary General Hails Pm Harris’ Vision

    UN Secretary General Hails Pm Harris’ Vision

    Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 18, 2015 (SKNIS): Commendations continue to pour in from the international community for Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris. Secretary General of the United Nations, His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, has praised Dr. Harris for his vision in creating a government of national unity that will chart the way forward for the twin-island Federation. In a recent…

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  • Photo of Int’l Year of Evaluation 2015: Message to Caribbeans

    Int’l Year of Evaluation 2015: Message to Caribbeans

    Caribbean news. It is our pleasure to send this message to the Caribbean Evaluators International at the historical moment of celebrating International Year of Evaluation in the first regional evaluation conference. CEI as a new regional VOPE made a great progress in the recent past and helped Caribbeans to successfully join the EvalYear initiative.   Year 2015 was declared as…

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  • CARICOM and Pacific Community Secretariats collaborate to mark end of UN Year of the SIDS

    Message to the Pacific Community from Caribbean Community on Vimeo. Monday January 26 marked the end of the United Nations Year of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The Caribbean Community and Pacific Community Secretariats agreed to stage a joint social media campaign this week to mark the occasion and to signal the start of closer collaboration by their communications teams beyond the declared…

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  • Photo of Final push to launch U.N. negotiations on High Seas Treaty

    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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  • Photo of 2015 presents historic opportunity to improve people’s lives – UN Assembly President

    2015 presents historic opportunity to improve people’s lives – UN Assembly President

    14 January 2015 – The next several months will present a historic opportunity to agree on an “inspiring” agenda that will directly improve the lives of people around the world, United Nations General Assembly President Sam Kutesa said today as he outlined his objectives for 2015. “As we embark on the critical task of formulating an inclusive and transformative post-2015…

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  • Five years after quake, cholera epidemic haunts Haiti

    Five years after an earthquake demolished its capital, Haiti's efforts to get back on its feet are still hampered by an epidemic blamed on the UN troops there to help. The United Nations has denied legal responsibility for the ongoing cholera outbreak that has killed 8,000 Haitians, but all scientific evidence points to poor sanitation at a peacekeeping base. Victims…

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  • U.N. official visits Bahamas to discuss new immigration policy

    San Juan, Nov 24 (EFE).- The deputy director-general of the International Organization for Migration visited the Bahamas for talks with top officials on the nation's controversial new immigration law, the government said Monday. The IOM's Laura Thompson met with the minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Frederick Mitchell, as a follow-up to the memorandum of understanding signed by the two…

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