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Caribbean Export, OAS partner to enhance businesses through ICT
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in collaboration with the 
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a cacao plantation (CJ Photo)
Transforming Caribbean Cocoa
By the Caribbean Journal staff
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Caribbean Fisheries Forum to review regional spiny lobster declaration
Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen (17) Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), as well
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The Hon Perry Christie, CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of The Bahamas
CARICOM Chairman addresses UN’s Economic and Social Council
Prime Minister Christie is in New York to participate in a high level dialogue during the 2015 integration segment of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on Monday, 30th Marc
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BTMI Chairman, Alvin Jemmott (pictured) as well as cricketing legends, the Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers and Joel Garner, are in Cape Town, South Africa to promote the tournament. (FP)
Barbados To Host Golden Oldies Cricket Festival
Barbados has won the bid to host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players.
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Chair of CARICOM, the Rt Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas
CARICOM seeks international support for socio-economic growth
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 31, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are still grappling with the effects of global economic crisis as well as the impact climate change, Bahamas Prime Minister Per
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(L-R): Peter Nygard of Nygard International and Dr Eugene Redmond, President of the St Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation.
Stem cell research and treatment facility to be established in St Kitts
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) -- Plans are in the works to establish a stem cell research and treatment center in St Kitts in the near future.
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Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and OAS Assistant Secretary-General Albert Ramdin at the opening ceremony of the First Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law (Photo via OAS)
Environmental Rule of Law Meeting opens in Jamaica
More than 100 high-level officials including judges, prosecutors, parliamentarians, experts from international organizations, academics, students, and representatives of civil society and the
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Rash caused by Chikungunya (Photo via Caribbean Journal)
Traditional herbal remedies harnessed to treat chikungunya in Antigua
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tuesday March 31, 2015 – Last summer, 38-year-old Sira Berzas from Antigua and Barbuda was struck down with chikungunya, the mosquito-borne disease that has swept through t
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Some of the participants in the two-day training programme on the CARICOM Trade and Competitiveness Project Workflow Management System at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. (GP)
Training In Workflow Management Systems
Over 20 Barbadian frontline personnel are now better equipped to streamline information to facilitate improved access to data under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and to better share
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The Document and Workflow Management System
The Document and Workflow Management System (DWMS) is a crucial component of the larger initiative to make the rights under the CSM more accessible and to ensure a higher level of efficiency and ef
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Participants at the Media Workshop
CSME Workshop identifies gap
BASSETERRE, St.
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Ronald Jackson. (Credit:Loop)
Caribbean now has facility for disaster training
A Caribbean Training Centre, warehouse and the Regional Coordination Centre are all now housed with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency’s (CDEMA), new eight million dollar headquarte
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Caricom
Martinique to host May 9th Caribbean Climate 2015 Conference
NEW YORK, May 7, 2015 —On Saturday, May 9, 2015, the French Caribbean island of Martinique will host the regional summit, Caribbean Climate 2015, which will be chaired by French President François
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Caricom
Belize scores major success with CSME workplace series
Belize’s focal point Ministry for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy has forged ahead with workplace sessions on the Single Market in 2015, scoring increasing awareness, interest and participati
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How Latin America and the Caribbean is ending hunger
BY RAÚL BENÍTEZ —This year marks a turning point in the global fight against hunger: 2015 is the deadline that world governments set to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and the go
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Participants of the Training Exercise
Customs officers being trained in fight against wildlife trade
A number of Guyanese Customs and other Border Control Officers are currently undergoing a three day capacity building programme that is expected to better enable them to not only protect
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Caricom
CARICOM Heads back Creative Industries Management Unit
CARICOM leaders last week endorsed the idea of the CARICOM Secretariat and Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) preparing a proposal for a Caribbean Creative Industries Management
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