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Energy Minister Darcy Boyce
Barbados to establish regional energy centre

Barbados is to establish a Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Energy Minister Darcy Boyce has said.

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Regional meeting on Rio Summit declaration

Caribbean delegates ended a two-day meeting in St Lucia on Wednesday identifying opportunities for collective action towards the full implementation of measures contained in

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Regional Forum focuses on effects of climate change on agriculture

The first ever Caribbean Forum on Climate-Smart Agriculture has ended here with the organizers saying it provided an opportunity to promote and support options for adapting the Caribbean agricultur

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Empowering Patients through Laboratory, Clinical and Community Support - CCAS HIV/AIDS…

August 25th, 2015 -- “The Holistic Approach to HIV Care in the Caribbean: Empowering Patients through Laboratory, Clinical and Community Support” is the theme of a five-day regional workshop t

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CARICOM SG and Haitian Foreign Minister call for greater international involvement in Haiti DR…

Haiti’s Foreign Minister the Honourable Lener Renaud and Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque agreed on the need for greater involvement by the internati

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New Vistas For The Caribbean Agricultural Research And Development Institute (CARDI)

Chairperson, Honourable Suresh Algoe Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Fisheries, Chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee and Members of said Committee, President of the Car

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The new airport
Antigua Opens Region’s Most Modern Airport Terminal

 first airport terminal in CARICOM with jet bridges.

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CDB’s Vice-President (Operations), Patricia McKenzie shared some camera time with Steven Hillier (second left), Disaster Risk Reduction Adviser of the Department For International Development of the United Kingdom. Also in photo are Ronald Jac
CDB advances climate change and disaster risk management of member countries

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agenda for reducing risks and building resilience in the region got a much-needed boost recently.

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Haitian ladies in tradition dress during the opening parade
CARIFESTA XII opens with a bang despite rain

The twelfth edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA XII) opened last night with a plethora of exciting performances, sp

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Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley
Barbados Minister of Culture to represent CARICOM Chair at CARIFESTA – BGIS

Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley, will lead a delegation to participate in the 12th edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts, CARIFESTA, to be hosted in Haiti later this mont

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CDB Finances Training for Caribbean Water Sector Professionals

Senior Water Sector professionals from across the Caribbean will meet on August 23 – 24 to identify better ways of planning for the impact of climate change on the region’s water supply and systems

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Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his St. Vincent and the Grenadines counterpart Dr. Ralph Gonsalves/Photo: BGIS
Barbados and St. Vincent to sign maritime treaty

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug 20, CMC – Barbados and St.

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UNICEF launches regional media project to influence reporting on children rights issues

CMC – A regional project aimed at improving the image of children through media reporting has been launched in Barbados with a senior United Nations official noting that the way the media “represen

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Our sargassum test demands urgent action

Some of the region’s leading experts and researchers were today huddled at the University of the West Indies with one sole purpose: to find a coordinated, practical, regional response to the unwelc

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Rose Willock was recognized for her service to the region, especially in building capacity for emergency broadcasting. (Photo: Steve Forrest/Workers Photos)
Caribbean broadcasting icons inducted into Hall of Fame

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tuesday August 18, 2015 – Two Caribbean broadcasting icons were yesterday inducted into the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) Hall of Fame.

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Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Sir Hilary Beckles says the Sargassum seaweed problem is the single greatest threat to the Caribbean.
Millions of dollars, massive manpower needed to tackle Sargassum seaweed

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday August 18, 2015 – It would take at least US$120 million and more than 100,000 people to clean up the Sargassum seaweed that has created “an international crisis”

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CDN Special Feature: THE SARGASSUM PHENOMENON IN THE CARIBBEAN

A SPECIAL (CDN) FEATURE

BY: RICARDO BLACKMAN (CDN) BARBADOS.

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Following IICA training… Honey gets sweeter for local bee-keepers

LOCAL beekeepers who are members of the Guyana Apicultural Society (GAS) have said that a bee-keeping training programme organised for them by the Inter American Institute for Cooperation in A

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oung Graduates from the Leaps Programme – Cunupia Community Champions for Change Club
CARICOM/Spain Reducing Youth on Youth Violence Project strengthens community partnership

Informed minds; proud faces and without  doubt hearts too; all  104 of them  between the ages of  5 to 18 years with their thirty-four parents of mostly mothers, indeed no less

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