(CARICOM Today) The creation of wealth through agriculture will be one of the key topics for discussion when the Regional Planners’ Forum on Agriculture gets underway in Belize City, Belize, at the end of September. The event is geared at advancing discussions and building cooperation on matters of importance to boosting agriculture in the region. […]
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(CARICOM Today) Guyana is one of five countries in CARIFORUM to benefit from an initiative to enhance its education sector to respond to school-based crime and violence at the primary level, through the institutionalisation of structured and coordinated after school activity clubs, titled Champions for Change Clubs (CCC). At a workshop to be held from […]
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By Patricia Scotland Commonwealth Secretary-General (Guyana Chronicle) This month the Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting will assemble in Nairobi, Kenya. It has taken place regularly since 1985, to take stock of the current status of gender equality in our member countries, and to share perspectives and experience of how progress on this important Commonwealth priority […]
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(CARICOM Today) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has noted the significant progress St. Kitts and Nevis has made, as the Member State marks its 36th anniversary of Independence on 19 September 2019. In a congratulatory message to the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. The Honourable Timothy Harris, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, said the […]
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(CARICOM Today) The Bahamas tragedy following the devastating effects of Hurricane Dorian has brought into stark reality the unrelenting havoc that natural disasters have wreaked on the Caribbean Region in recent years. The Special Report on Climate Change and Land ( SRCCL) from a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) comprising leading international experts held […]
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(CARICOM Today) Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris announced during this morning’s (Tuesday, September 17) sitting of the National Assembly that the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has approved financial aid to the Commonwealth of Bahamas to assist in the ongoing recovery and relief efforts following the devastation left in the aftermath of […]
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(CARICOM Today) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and India have reaffirmed decades-old ties with the accreditation of a new envoy to CARICOM, His Excellency Dr. K. J Srinivasa. In accepting his letters of credence on Thursday, last, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, described India as “an important partner for the Caribbean Community.” He thanked the South Asian […]
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(Caribbean Export) The Caribbean Fashion Showroom is now open for business online. Featuring designers from across the CARIFORUM, the Caribbean Fashion Showroom is poised to become the online place to find Caribbean designers and purchase online. An initiative of the Caribbean Export Development Agency in collaboration with the European Union, the Caribbean Fashion Showroom has been taken to […]
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(CARICOM Today) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has reiterated its call for international financial institutions to accept that the vulnerability of Small Island and low-lying coastal Developing States (SIDS), should be the main criterion for eligibility for concessional development financing, instead of GDP per capita. As yet another CARICOM Member State reels from an extreme climate-related […]
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(The Nassau Guardian) Abaco, the Berry Islands, Bimini, Eleuthera, Grand Bahama and New Providence are all under a tropical storm warning after it was announced that an area of disturbance in the central Bahamas is expected to develop. In its 5 p.m. update, the National Hurricane Center said, “The system is expected to move toward […]
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