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CARICOM Regional Statistics Strategy advances to the Conference of Heads of Government
Ministers responsible for CARICOM affairs have recommended that the Strategic Framework of the CARICOM Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) be placed before CARICOM Heads of G
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L-R: Dr Martin Oditt, UNAIDS Country Director, Dr Edward Greene PANCAP Advisor, Dr Hector Butts, Finance Secretary Ministry of Finance – Guyana and Mr Dereck Springer Director of PANCAP.
HIV Sustainability and Domestic Financing
Thursday 5 April 2018, Georgetown Guyana: Sustainability of the Region’s HIV response continues to be a priority of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PAN
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Minister Khemraj Ramjattan at the podium. Also in photograph are, from left, Mr. Terry Steers-Gonzalez, Chargé d' Affaires, US Embassy in Guyana; Mr Jean-Ricot Dormeus, OAS/CICAD Representative to Guyana; Ms. Beverly Reynolds, Coordinator
Evidence-based, data-driven policies to address drug situation, other crimes – Khemraj Ramjattan
The importance of drug observatories in the fight against the illegal drug situation was reiterated throughout the Opening Ceremony of the Regional Seminar for National Drug Observatories in the Ca
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Barbados Minister suggests bigger private sector role in regional standards
Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, has called on regional standards bodies to make greater use of the skills offered by the priv
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Dr. C. James Hospedales
Health is a critical resource for living – World Health Day Message from Dr. C. James Hospedales, CARPHA executive director
“Health is a human right and a critical resource for living. There is general recognition that health and access to health services are essential to individual, community and national development.
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Delegates at the ACP Meeting last week in Brussels. (Photo via ACP Secretariat)
Name change on the horizon for ACP Grouping
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Georgetown Agreement, which was signed in the capital of Guyana in 1975, bringing into being the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, is undergoing a wide-rang
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Delegates and facilitators pause for a photo op after the opening ceremony of the Workshop at the CARICOM Secretariat Tuesday morning
CARIFORUM Customs officials begin three-day workshop in Georgetown
A Regional Workshop aimed at building capacity in the Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), began this morning at the 
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UK’s May apologises to Caribbean countries over treatment of post-war migrants
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May apologised to representatives from 12 Caribbean countries on Tuesday over recent harsh treatment by immigration bureaucrats of peop
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From left, the Hon. Paul Lewis, Minister of Communications, Works and Labour, Montserrat; Dr. Devon Gardner, Programme Manager, Energy, CARICOM Secretariat; and Mr. Joseph Cox, Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, CARICOM Secr
CCREEE, regional energy security among matters before Ministers at Special COTED
Montserrat deposited its instruments of ratification of the Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Centre for Renewable
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A riot of colour as Form 3C performs a Haitian dance
Fascinating, sophisticated displays at The Bishops’ High School CARICOM Project event
The Bishops’ High School in Georgetown, Guyana, hosted its annual 9th Grade (3rd Form) CARICOM Project at the school o
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Delegates at the meeting
Region advancing protocol on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management in Fisheries
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, THURSDAY, 19 April 2018 (CRFM)—Fisheries officials from Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mec
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Dr.-James-Hospedales
CARPHA executive director urges caution on decriminalisation of marijuana
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) — The executive director of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
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Regional Workshop participants following the opening ceremony on Monday
Hub and Spokes Programme: providing critical Trade Support to Caribbean economies
Georgetown, Guyana (April 23, 2018) – Caribbean development partners and beneficiaries of the Hub and Spokes Programme, an aid-for-trade initiative, began a three-day regional plannin
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CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque
‘Sadness mixed with revulsion’ – CARICOM SG to Canada’s Prime Minister on Toronto tragic incident
CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has sent a message of condolence to the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr.
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