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Discussions Towards Reviving Regional Bio-energy Strategy Commence

The establishment a Regional Bio-energy Strategy is one of the key strategies identified for the development and execution of the C-SERMS Framework.

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Caricom
The OAS executed C-SEP Project successfully Concludes

The Department of Sustainable Development of the Organisation of American States (OAS/DSD), and the Delegation of the European Union to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean hosted a Closing Meeting

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Teachers attended a two-day workshop entitled 'Sustainable Energy for Caribbean Education in The Bahamas' and constructed models of wind turbines. In the photo a Mr. Keith Etheridge, Kidwind Workshop Facilitator (Back row, centre); Mrs. Bar
BAHAMIAN EDUCATORS LEARN EFFECTIVE METHODS TO TEACH SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LESSONS

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Bahamas and the Organization of American States (OAS) through its Department of Sustainable Development conducted a two-day teacher’s trai

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The Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago greets U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
Establishment of Regional Renewable Energy Research Centre advanced in Trinidad and Tobago

A Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate cooperation on scientific, technical and policy aspects of energy efficiency and clean energy technologies through the exchange of ideas and informatio

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Caricom
Agriculture finally getting recognition it deserves – President Ramotar

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  With renewed emphasis on agriculture to ensure food and nutrition security in the Region and to spur development, the sector is f

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Caricom
High cost of transportation must be addressed - ASG Slater

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The issue of the high cost of regional air and sea transportation was one of the areas that had to be addressed

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Dr Douglas- Slater ASG Human and Social Development
CARICOM appoints new Assistant Secretary General

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat now has a new Assistant Secretary General in charge of Human and

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Caricom
Jagdeo Initiative high on COTED agenda

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Jagdeo Initiative is one of the key subjects that will be considered when Ministers of Agriculture gather o

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Caricom
`Believe in agriculture’ – rallying call at CWA 2013 opening

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2013 was formally opened on Wednesday evening with rallying calls for b

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Caricom
Stakeholder Consultation to Examine Entry of CARIFORUM Entertainers in the EU Market

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Public and private sector stakeholders drawn from the Cultural Industry of the Caribbean Forum of African, Cari

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Caricom
Remarks by Dr. Douglas Slater,  Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development…

I speak to you this evening on behalf of Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, the CARICOM Secretary-General who, unfortunately, is out of the country.

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Caricom
Consensus turns into firm action

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SOME INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS are occurring in the Middle East that could see a thawing of relations with Iran and Syria and ultimately a realignment of United States strat

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Caricom
Libyan Prime Minister Snatched

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was snatched by gunmen before dawn today from a Tripoli hotel where he resides, the government said.

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Caricom
Former Jamaica deputy prime minister dies

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Seymour “Foggy” Mullings, a former deputy prime minister and regarded as one of the stalwarts of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP), has died. He was 82.

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Caricom
International migration

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Even as a high-level dialogue among states and governments on the issue of international migration began at the United Nations Headquarters in New York last Thursday, October

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Caricom
Finance Minister sacked

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC - President Desi Bouterse Wednesday fired his Finance Minister, Adelien Wijnerman, according to an official statement issued here.

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Caricom
OAS focuses on drug education and rehab

ST JOHN’S, Antigua - The treatment and rehabilitation of drug users is a major part of a new, holistic strategy Organization of American States (OAS) member are putting in place to address widesp

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Caricom
CCJ president speaks on diversity in selection of judges

BOSTON, CMC – President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, says a conscious and forthright statement of dedication to achieving diversity should be noted when the Trinidad

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