Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS): Honourable Eugene Hamilton, Minister of Agriculture, has hailed the first ever Pumpkin Festival and Arts Exhibition at the St. Kitts Eco-Park Grounds at Sir Gilles Estate in Sandy Point, as a success, as it promotes locally grown produce. The festival was held on Saturday, October 03.
This workshop focused on the current state of legislation on electronic commerce in the Caribbean, and allowed participants to discuss about the challenges they face in the implementation and application of national legal frameworks and consider best practices, toward regional harmonization.
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) yesterday deployed three rapid damage and needs assessment teams to The Bahamas to determine the extent of damage suffered during the passage of Hurricane Joaquin over the weekend.
The CDEMA-led teams will provide assistance to the disaster agencies in the Bahamas in the assessment of damage to critical facilities, infrastructure and housing, water, sanitation and health, telecommunications and coastal zones, as well as provide general disaster response and relief support.
(The Bahamas Weekly) YOUNG. Female. Educated. Farmer…Expert in the field of Agriculture???!!! Something seems amiss with this picture when the current line of thinking, current hypothesis, advances the view that the average Bahamian farmer is male and in his 60s.
CARICOM IMPACS in collaboration with the US Government concluded a week long Joint Interdiction Training in the U.S. Virgin Islands, on Tuesday.
The training, targeted at regional border security officials, was made possible through funding under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative and was overseen by personnel from the US Customs and Border Protections (CBP).
A very important discussion taking place at the regional conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Week 2015 in the Virgin Islands (British) has to do with the concept of a single ICT space, something Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Honourable Phillip Paulwell sees as a major beat as the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) seeks to abolish roaming in the Caribbean.
Hon Paulwell was at the time delivering his final speech as President of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), having served for three periods.
In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados.
Caribbean Community Minister of Health have endorsed steps being taken by the CARICOM Secretariat and its partners – the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) to develop the Caribbean Cooperation in H
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Hon. Mark Brantley on Thursday joined his counterparts from CARICOM and India for the Second CARICOM-India Joint Ministerial Meeting in New York. The meeting was co-chaired by the Hon. Alva Baptiste of Saint Lucia, and the Hon. Swaraz Shushma of India. Minister Brantley was accompanied by Mr. Samuel Berridge, Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of St. Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations.
The Caribbean is a priority for my government, for this reason I launched the initiative called: Costa Rica from the Caribbean, for the development of the costarican Caribbean coast. This proposal brings together a number of projects agreed between the private productive sector, social organizations, local governments and other public institutions for the well being of all. This initiative is framed in the context of our common environment: The Caribbean sea.