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Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Germany in session in Berlin, Germany.
Intensifying cooperation with the Caribbean Community: Germany’s Foreign Minister

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier invited his counterparts from the states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to a conference in Berlin on 2 March.

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Cultivating a Caribbean Specialty

The production of cacao is globally concentrated in the regions between 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south of the equator, namely Central and South America, West Africa and the Caribbean. 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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Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) paid a Courtesy Call on the Hon. Shane Gibson, Minister of Labour and National Insurance and the Public Service on Monday, March 2, 2015 at the Ministry of Labour. Pictured fr
ILO Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour to address ‘Decent Work for Sustainable Development’

The 9th ILO Meeting of the Caribbean Ministers of Labour, organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the Government of The Baha

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The Aedes Egypti mosquito, which causes the Chikungunya virus. Although Chikungunya does not cause death, like dengue fever, which is also spread by the Aedes Egypti mosquito, Chikungunya can cause infected persons to have joint pains for more than t
Ministry Of Health Declares Chikungunya Epidemic Officially Over

A year after the first reported case of Chikungunya in January 2014 the Ministry of 

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Food security and a balanced diet for all must be combined with the knowledge of indigenous peoples’ food systems and livelihoods as a contribution to sustainable development. Credit: IFAD
Indigenous food systems should be on the development menu

ROME, Feb 23 2015 (IPS) - Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality.

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The CARICOM delegation: Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is 5th from left
First conference of CARICOM and German Foreign Ministers opens in Berlin

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the Region’s Foreign Ministers on Monday began a two-day conference with German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, Germany.

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Communiqué Issued Following The Conclusion of the Twenty-sixth Inter-sessional Meeting of the…

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Twenty-Sixth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CAR

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Promising prospects for CARICOM Customs harmonisation process

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Representatives of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States have further developed guidelines for improvements

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CARICOM heads agree to focus on sports tourism and cultural industries

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     CARICOM heads have decided to place emphasis on developing cultural and creative industries and a sports sector t

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Prime Minister of Barbados Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart (r) makes a point to the media as CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of The Bahamas Rt. Hon. Perry Christie (c) and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Hon. Gaston Browne look on.
Engagement not Protest – the approach on Reparations: Prime Minister Stuart

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will not “pursue the issue of reparations on the basis of a diplomacy of protest” but “on the basis of a diplomacy of engagement,” assures Barbados Prime Minister

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Regional Seismic and Tsunami Risk Workshop

Bridgetown, Barbados, March 2, 2015 (CDEMA) - The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in association with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM

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Head Table – closing press conference (l-r): CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque; Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. Gaston Browne; Chairman of CARICOM and Prime Minister of The Bahamas the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie
Regional initiative to tackle banking threat

CARICOM Heads of Government have agreed to establish a Committee of Finance Ministers to work with the Caribbean Association of Banks on a plan to deal with the region being unjustly labeled a high

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Caribbean writers, animators create appealing children’s stories

Caribbean writers and animators have taken up the call for creating their own stories using tools and media that appeal to children.

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A worker at Fondes Amandes demonstrates the building of fire traces. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS
Fighting climate change with community action

FONDES AMANDES, Trinidad, Feb 18 2015 (IPS) - Not far above Trinidad’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in a corner of the St.

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Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Technology, Energy & Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell (right), addresses the opening of an Internet Café and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at the Farm Primary and Junior High School
Jamaican cell phone users to get number portability – Technology Minister

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon.

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A view of the audience and head table during the opening ceremony for a National Customs Workshop on Multilateral Environmental Agreements being hosted in Guyana by the CARICOM Secretariat March 24-26, 2015.
Economic growth of CARICOM region set to improve as harmonised customs bill nears finalisation

A momentous 12 year effort to bring to pass a much-coveted harmonised customs bill for the Caribbean is now in its final stages.

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Honourable Sir Manuel Sosa, President of the Court of Appeal of Belize
Belize Court of Appeal President visits CCJ

The Honourable Sir Manuel Sosa, President of the Court of Appeal of Belize and former Chief Justice of Belize, visited Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 23-26 February 2015, as a guest of the

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