The CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) and the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) have expressed concern about the new global threat of antibiotics resistance. In a Joint Statement issued on the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day to be observed on 15 March 2016, the CARICOM institutions explained the associated challenges and dangers of such resistance.
Ministers of Agriculture of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in Georgetown Thursday and Friday for a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture. The Meeting will be held at the CARICOM Secretariat.
Among the matters the discussions will focus on are commodities which the Community had identified as priorities: roots and root tubers, especially cassava; small ruminants; herbs and spices, especially hot peppers; and fisheries.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, 25 August 2015, (CRFM) – Industry figures and government officials from across the Caribbean fishing industry Tuesday wrapped up two days of talks here acknowledging they were at the very early stages of introducing a new regime for safe seafood for local and international consumption.
The two-day meeting is part of a European Union-funded project to help CARIFORUM countries introduce laws, regulations and a governance system to guarantee safe seafood for export to EU markets and beyond.
The second phase of the Road Mapping workshops for the European Union (EU) funded ‘Coconut Industry development in the Caribbean’ project is set to continue later this month.
A case study presented recently by Jamaican, Applied Climate Researcher to the 2nd Caribbean Weather Information Generator (CARIWIG) Workshop in Barbados has identified sweet potato as a potential climate change adaptation crop.
The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety (CAHFSA), a Regional institution, held its third meeting at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat from November 17-19, 2014.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams, says that the CARICOM online consumer-protection warning system has the potential to foster development of regional economies, while protecting consumers from unsafe goods.
She was addressing a sensitisation workshop on the CARICOM Rapid Alert System for Information Exchange on Dangerous Goods (CARREX), held on Friday (September 25), at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston.
The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) contributes to enhanced agricultural health and food safety in the Caribbean Community.
Its primary objectives include regional and national support in establishing, managing and operating national agricultural health and food safety systems in accordance with the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The agency upon which the Region will depend to strengthen agricultural health and food safety and ensure the highest standards for trade in agricultural products, was launched Thursday afternoon in Paramaribo, Suriname.