Statistics
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BELIZE HOSTS 2024 CARICOM STATISTICS MEETINGS
The Government of Belize, in partnership with the Statistical Institute of Belize, the CARICOM Secretariat, the United Nations Population Fund, the European Union, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, will host the 2024 CARICOM Statistics Meetings in Placencia, Belize. The Meetings began on 31 October and will conclude on 8 November 2024. This series of meetings, held annually in one of the…
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Message From Dr. Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM)| Fiftieth Anniversary of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians | Sixteenth Observance of Caribbean Statistics Day | 15 October 2024
“The theme selected for Caribbean Statistics Day 2024, ‘Improving Lives through Statistics: Strengthening and Innovating Together’ underscores the critical role that statistics play in enhancing the welfare of CARICOM citizens. It recognises regional efforts to strengthen capacity to enhance our statistical systems and to generate accurate, reliable, timely and relevant data for policy development and decision making. Harmonised statistics are…
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Regional Statisticians meet in Georgetown
Statisticians from across the Region are in Guyana for a training programme on statistical data and metadata eXchange (SDMX). The workshop, hosted by the CARICOM Secretariat in collaboration with the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), is being held at the Bureau of Statistics office in Georgetown. It began on Monday, 22 April, and will conclude on Friday, 26…
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Climate Change is a numbers game that we must understand- Environment Minister, The Bahamas
“Climate Change is a numbers game, and we have to understand what the numbers mean and what they mean for our future,” said the Hon. Vaughn Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of The Bahamas.He was at the time delivering remarks at the opening of a capacity-building workshop for environment and Climate Change statistics and indicators on 12…
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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Climate Change Statistics: 2020
This first publication on Climate Change Statistics for CARICOM countries contains data up to 2019 in some instances, while for other series it comprises data up to 2012/13. It aims at providing statistics on climate change for the region and follows the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013) of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and its…
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COVID-19
How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted. How we live and interact with each other, how we work and communicate, how we move around and travel. Every aspect of our lives has been affected. Although the world is in lockdown, governments, epidemiologists, school principals, entrepreneurs and families around the world are already planning the next steps:…
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Regional statistics capacity-building project
The Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC), funded by the Canadian Government, is a seven-year initiative that begins this month. It is geared at strengthening the statistical system of the Caribbean in order to address identified gaps towards the improvement of socio-economic measures and to support evidence-based policy-making. The project was launched against the background…
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Proposals and Specific Actions to advocate for the Improvement of Statistics in CARICOM
The Second High-Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics (HLF2),Strategising for the Development of Statistics in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the Post-2015 Development Agenda,was held at the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, St. George’s, Grenada on 26 May 2014. Dr. The Right Honourable Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenadawas the keynote speaker at the Forum.The Forum requested that the Prime Minister should“champion…
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