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Head Table: Chair of the Regional Coordinating Committee on Climate Change (RCCC) and Minister of Sustainable Development in St. Lucia Dr. Jimmy Fletcher (right) and Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) Dr. Kenr
Region continues climate change planning
The Caribbean Community continues to plan the way forward following the recent signing of the
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- Minister for Grand Bahama Dr. Michael Darville, left, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Fred Mitchell at a press briefing Wednesday to announced the staging of the 9th UK-Caribbean Forum in Grand Bahama April 29-30,
9th UK-Caribbean forum opens in Grand Bahama
Freeport, Bahamas – Prime Minister Perry Christie is expected to officially open the 9th United Kingdom-Caribbean Forum in Grand Bahama tonight signaling what is expected to be two days of exhausti
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(From left: CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque; Hon. Fred Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Bahamas; Rt. Hon. Phillip Hammond, Foreign Secretary of the UK, prior to the start of the meeting on Saturday in Freeport, Bahamas
CARICOM-UK Forum frank and cordial
Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary ended two sessions of “frank and cordial” talks in Freeport, The Bahamas at the Ninth Caribbean UK Fo
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Paris Agreement on Climate Change
CARICOM bloc signs and 5 member states ratify historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Fourteen CARICOM nations, with only the exclusion of Montserrat, a British overseas territory, have joined 160 countries and the European Union in signing the historic Paris Agreement on Friday, Ap
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Energy, Science and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, addresses a Girls in Information and Communication and Technology (ICT) Day seminar and workshop, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel, today (April 28).  (Photo: Donald Delahaye)
Technology Minister Wants More Females in ICT
Energy, Science and Technology Minister, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, is underscoring the need for greater female involvement in the field of information and communication technology (ICT).
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Tarun Butcher, Moderator, Session One, Day, delivers a summary of the session. Also in photograph is CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, Dr. Douglas Slater
Regional youth forum stresses need for restorative justice
The connection of crime and violence to drugs, legal and illegal; the need for “restorative justice” and understanding the dynamics at the community level to ensure targeted interventions, formed p
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Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart
Barbados PM writes Britain on reparation on behalf of CARICOM
The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have sent a formal letter of complaint to Britain seeking reparation for slavery.
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Belize to host Caribbean Growth Forum Meeting
Next week, representatives from 14 Caribbean countries will come together in Belize City to take stock of key lessons learned from the hundred reform actions implemented through the Caribbean Growt
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Deputy PM Richards (left) and CYA Dennis McCall Jr. are attending meetings in Guyana
Deputy PM Richards Weighs In On CARICOM Youth Development Agenda
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 02, 2016 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy Prime Minister, Honourable Shawn Richards, and CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) Dennis McCall Jr.
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Assistant Secretary General, Human and Social Development at the CARICOM Secretariat Dr. Douglas Slater (second left) makes remarks during the Eighth Meeting of Directors of Youth Affairs. Also pictured are, from left, Director Human Development at C
‘Don’t disappoint Region’s youth’ – Assistant Secretary-General Slater
Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, 
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Prime Minister Perry Christie leading parliamentarians from the Churchill Building into Parliament Square to participate in the historic vote on gender equality. (Photo: BIS)
Historic gender equality legislation passed in Bahamas Parliament
NASSAU, Bahamas, Mar. 4, CMC – History was made on Wednesday when Parliament passed four amendments to the constitution, removing the remaining vestiges of discrimination from the law books.
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The University of the West Indies to host Zika Symposium
The University of the West Indies will host a two-day symposium bringing together an interdisciplinary group of specialists to explore issues relevant to the control of the Zika virus in the Caribb
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CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque makes remarks at the opening ceremony of the Twenty-Ninth meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development COHSOD. Also pictured are, from left, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social
Cost of crime and violence too high – CARICOM Secretary General
The social, psychological and economic cost of crime and violence in the Region was too high, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
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Flashback: participants of a CSME workshop
CSME Events Seek To Educate The Public On Free Movement Of Labour
Two events to be held in St. Kitts next week have as their goal to educate the general public about the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) with respect to the free movement of labour.
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Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris
Empowering Women And Achieving Gender Equality Are Top Priorities For St. Kitts And Nevis, Says PM Harris
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 08, 2016 (SKNIS): Empowering women and achieving gender equality are top priority issues for St. Kitts and Nevis, said Prime Minister Dr.
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Director, EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit, Carlos Wharton at the custom and trade facilitation capacity building workshop
Customs Officers get training - under CARIFORUM–EU agreement
Several local customs officers, as well as stakeholders in the public and private sector benefitted from a customs and trade facilitation capacity workshop, conducted today at the Guyana Revenue Au
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