The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has been awarded the 2016 Energy Globe for a project submitted on Belize.
CCCCC won from over 1,500 projects submitted from 170 countries and according to a statement issued here, the Energy Globe Award is a prestigious environmental prize worldwide.
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 8 June 2016—UNAIDS welcomes the new goals, targets and commitments of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. Countries have agreed to a historic and urgent agenda to accelerate efforts towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The Political Declaration provides a global mandate to Fast-Track the AIDS response over the next five years.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 08, 2016 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and CARICOM Lead Head with responsibility for Human Resources, Health and HIV/AIDS, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, has addressed the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on June 08. The meeting runs from June 8-10, 2016.
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 8, CMC – The United Nations Wednesday adopted a progressive, new and actionable Political Declaration on Ending AIDS which includes a set of specific, time-bound targets that must be reached by 2020 to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The declaration was adopted by member states during the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, now underway here. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries met ahead of the conference to put forward a regional approach to the meeting.
Haiti’s interim president, Jocelerme Privert, has told the Reuters News Agency that he will stay in office until next year to transfer power to an elected president unless parliament rules otherwise. He adopted this positioon after the electoral council on Monday scrapped the results of a disputed presidential vote.
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Dr Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, reaffirmed on Saturday in Havana that integration in Latin America and the Caribbean is a possible, realistic path and that its consolidation will make it possible for countries in the area to face common challenges.
Speaking at the seventh summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Gonsalves urged the region to work together and to use honest dialogue to resolve differences, thus promoting genuine friendship.
Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, together with the CARICOM Competition Commission, is hosting a training seminar on Competition Law and Policy on Monday 13 June, 2016, at the Customs and Excise Department.
This introductory Level I training programme is designed to raise knowledge and awareness of Competition Law and Policy, and build institutional capacity within St. Kitts and Nevis in the context of the implementation of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Making policy and planning strategies that are practical, useful and workable was the main objetctive at the Ninth Regional Planners Forum on Agriculture in the Caribbean, currently taking place in Trinidad and Tobago.
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, June 7, 2016 – A common complaint in any field of work is that high level strategies and policies are made without the input of those they impact. Or, that policies and strategies take time and effort to make but are never really implemented successfully in the areas where they matter.
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – An emotional Allen Michael Chastanet was sworn in Tuesday as the sixth Prime Minister of St Lucia since the island attained political independence from Britain in 1979, vowing to unite the country following Monday’s general election.
Chastanet, an economist and hotelier, took the oath of office before Dame Pearlette Louisy at Government House on the outskirts of the capital. The brief ceremony was witnessed by family members, including his 82-year-old father, Michael, as well as his wife and two children.
Guyana has been given the green light to award the Caribbean Vocational Qualifications or CVQs, as they are commonly called, in Technical Vocation Education Training (TVET).