The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) launched its latest New Generation CAPE Animation and Game Design Syllabus on Saturday 12 March 2016 at the KingstOOn Festival in Jamaica. CAPE Animation and Game Design will be taught in schools from September 2016 and the first examination will be offered in May/June 2017.
The Federative Republic of Brazil is the newest member country of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), signalling that country’s commitment to sustainable development of the Region. This became effective on December 31, 2015, following a process that began with Brazil’s application to membership in 2007 and its acceptance by the CDB Board of Governors in 2008.
Brazil is CDB’s 28th member, and the fourth non-borrowing regional member, joining Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela in that category.
In welcoming you all to this Meeting of the Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM, allow me to extend a special greeting to those Ministers attending their first meeting of this Council.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – Four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been chosen to conduct social marketing training and technical assistance to reduce daily salt intake.
The project in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and Jamaica, is being led by the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) Salt Smart Consortium, acting as the secretariat, supported by Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC).
First it was in only English. There Dutch. Now thanks to the Caribbean Regional Information and Translation Institute (CRITI) there is also a French version of The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) including the CSME.
A US$770,000 grant support package will become available to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States from the Republic of Kazakhstan to strengthen capacity in the areas of climate change and sustainable development.
CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Ambassador of Kazakhstan to CARICOM, H.E. Mr. Konstantin Zhigalov signed the agreement of financial support on Thursday 10 March 2016 at the Marriot Hotel, in Georgetown, Guyana, on the side-lines of the Fourth High-Level Donor Forum.
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.
The Honourable Vance Amory, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Labour, is of the view that there is further need for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis to be educated on the benefits of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).
As International Development Partners (IDPs) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet to examine the priority areas for development in the Community and to match the IDPs interests and resources with those priorities, the IDPs have been assured that CARICOM continually assesses its performance.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Australia continue to strengthen an already rewarding relationship, which among other things, has seen 128 CARICOM nationals benefitting from major scholarship programmes and leadership awards.
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Wednesday 9 March accepted the Letters of Credence from new Australian Ambassador to CARICOM, Mr. John Pilbeam, at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.