Grenada’s efforts to promote Regional integration, particularly in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), have been lauded by CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
The Secretary-General expressed his appreciation in a message to Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell on the occasion of Grenada’s 42nd Independence anniversary observed on 7 February.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Friday February 5, 2016 – Ministers of Health of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have agreed on a harmonized approach to combating the fast spreading Zika virus which has already affected more than 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
OECS chairman and Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell, who made the announcement yesterday, said the effort includes monitoring and surveillance, eradication and protection, care and case management, and public education campaigns.
Haiti’s outgoing President Michel Martelly on Saturday reached an agreement with parliament to form a caretaker government when he leaves power ton Sunday.
Media reports say under the agreement parliament will elect an interim president for a four-month term.
A presidential runoff due to be held last month was scrapped after opposition candidate Jude Celestin threatened to boycott the vote over allegations of fraud in the first round, and protesters took to the streets in force.
President David Granger, in his capacity asCARICOM‘s Lead Head of Government with responsibility for Agriculture, on Thursday, met officials from the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) to discuss his vision for Caribbean agriculture.
As 2016 gets underway, the CARICOM Secretariat continues its drive toward a fully functioning single market with consumer protection training for CSME-participating Member States kicking off this month.
The Regional Transportation Commission (RTRC) met at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, on February 1, to continue its work towards the provision of adequate, efficient and safe transportation services at affordable cost to the people of the Community.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 02, 2016 (SKNIS): Two consultations with the objective of discussing and negotiating a regional procurement regime, specifically pertaining to a regional electronic notice board for CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) member-states were held January 28 and 29 in St. Kitts.
A group of youngsters from Grenada were recently involved in Youth in Agriculture Business Forum hosted by the Forum of the Caribbean Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Caribbean Agricultural Research
The Caribbean Regional Public Health Agency (CARPHA) will present a policy brief on the Zika virus at the Intersessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government on February 16-17 in Belize. To date, Zika has been confirmed in five CARICOM territories and other Caribbean jurisdictions have also reported Zika transmission.
The Community of Latin and American States CELAC Parliamentary group has adopted the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) call for reparations for native genocide and the enslavement of African people in the Caribbean through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.