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Azim Bassarath,President of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director
Bassarath: ICC coming to region speaks to confidence in WICB
President of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director, Azim Bassarath says that the fact that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to keep their
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CSME Bilboard
St. Kitts and Nevis teachers to be trained on the CSME this week
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), through the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit, the Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and the Ministry of
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Details from the permanent memorial in acknowledgement of the tragedy and in consideration of the legacy of slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz
UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday thank the&
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Participants at a training programme (photo via Caribbean News Now)
Barbados, Eastern Caribbean youth for animation, software development training
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Four hundred young men and women in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean will be equipped to participate in the global multi-billion dollar mobile application and animation in
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he Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica, speaks at the unveiling ceremony of “The Ark of Return”, the Permanent Memorial at United Nations headquarters to honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Tra
Use Memorial to say no to racism, discrimination: Jamaica’s Prime Minister
Today is a significant day in history especially for Africans at home and in the Diaspora. 
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Ark of Return Memorial
Women and slavery
Do you remember the days of slavery?” Jamaican Roots Reggae artist Burning Spear asks in his 1975 song ‘Slavery Days’.
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State Minister for Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Luther Buchanan (left), shares a light moment with (from right): Regional Representative, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (CABI) Naitram Ramnanan; Global Director, Monit
Ministry of Agriculture to Set Up Plant Health Clinics
KINGSTON, March 26, 2015 – The Ministry of Agriculture is to establish several plant health clinics islandwide as the Government ramps up efforts to address the issue of pests and diseases affectin
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Minister of Health, Dr. Fenton Ferguson (centre); Health Specialist, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Denese McFarlane (left); and Consultant Nutritionist, Dr. Pauline Samuda; display Jamaica’s Food-Based Dietary Guidelines, at the launch today (
Dietary Guidelines For Jamaica Established
KINGSTON, March 25, 2015 - Jamaica has joined six other Caribbean countries in implementing its own dietary guidelines with the aim of improving the nutritional well-being of citizens.
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World Bank funds ICT workshops
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Mar. 26, CMC - The World Bank is funding a series of training workshops intended to strengthen St.Lucia's information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
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Commission committed to eliminating HIV stigma
The National HIV/AIDS Commission is actively working towards the goal of having an AIDS free, HIV stigma and discrimination free generation by 2020.
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Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (2nd right) participates in the unveiling of the “Ark of Return” – the Permanent Monument to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave
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Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP) Regional Steering Committee Convenes In Grenada
High ranking officials from several Caribbean countries will assemble in Grenada next Monday March 16, 2015 to participate in the sixth Regional Steering Committee (RSC) meeting of the Caribbean Re
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From left: tech entrepreneurs Ricardo Gowdie, Dave Oakley, Alesha Aris and Mannin Marsh with Minister Julian Robinson. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)  Three local start-up technology companies have been selected to benefit from a US$90,000 ($10.3 million)-
Tech entrepreneurs head for training in Jordan
Three local start-up technology companies have been selected to benefit from a US$90,000 ($10.3 million)-investment and a trip to Jordan-based accelerator company Oasis500.
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 23 commemorates the opening of GHESKIO's new tuberculosis hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
GHESKIO Opens New Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti
In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Haitian Study Group on Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma, or 
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Caribbean Export Explores Technical Management Unit To Support Regional Trade
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- Following the successful hosting of a business forum in the Cayman Islands, for private sector firms, the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) explo
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His Excellency Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona swears in Madame Justice Maureen Rajnauth-Lee as new CCJ Judge (Photo via CCJ)
New CCJ Judge sworn in
The Honourable Mme.
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Verene Shepherd, a member of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent of the Human Rights Council. (Photo via Jamaica News)
UN wants end to Racism, Intolerance as World Commemorates Anti-discrimination Day
Almost 50 years after the proclamation of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN has been told that too many individuals, communities and societies continue
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