New St. Kitts and Nevis Minister of Youth, the Hon. Shawn K. Richards discussed key youth related issues with local CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs), Sonia Boddie and Klieon John, who also serves as the regional Dean of CYAs,on Monday 16 March 16.
The Minister gained insight into some of the work currently being undertaken by the ambassadors and their upcoming plans for 2015 and beyond.
The United Nations Permanent Memorial to Honour Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is scheduled to be unveiled on United Nations ground in New York on March 25, 2015.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 20, 2015 (SKNIS): Approximately 120 delegates are expected to participate in the 33rd Model OAS General Assembly (MOAS) for Universities of the Hemisphere scheduled for March 24 to 26, in St. Kitts and Nevis.
The election of Ambassador Mendez took place in a vote in which he obtained 24 votes from the member states, compared with 10 received by the Permanent Representative of Guyana, Bayney Karran. The vote took place following the election of the former Foreign Minister of Uruguay, Luis Almagro to the position of Secretary General, which he will assume on May 26, succeeding the current leader of the hemispheric Organization, José Miguel Insulza.
Some 312 participants, including a 73-year-old woman, on Monday graduated from a computer literacy class hosted by the National Poverty Reduction and Eradication Programmes Coordinating Unit.
Congratulating all the graduates, particularly the elderly woman, Minister of the People and Social Development Christine Newallo-Hosein encouraged people of all ages to take advantage of the free classes which were being held in six telecentres throughout the country.
Creole speaking Dominicans, as well as Haitians residing in that CARICOM Member State got their chance on Thursday February 27th, 2015, to learn about the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the five regimes which facilitate its operation as a single marketspace.
The platform was the very popular Creole radio interview and call-in show “Naftanoun” which airs weekdays on Dominica Broadcasting Service (DBS), and hosted by well-known media presenter and artist Felix Henderson.
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says Jamaica intends to lead a charge in the United Nations to effect changes to the international treaties concerning marijuana.
The aim is to change the schedule class of marijuana in light of scientific studies that have proven its therapeutic benefits and medicinal value.
University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd, has been invited by the United Nations to deliver the keynote address at the special commemorative sitting of the UN General Assembly on Friday.
This special meeting of the UN has been called to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under the theme: 'Learning from Historical Tragedies to Combat Racial Discrimination Today'. Professor Shepherd is the chairperson of Jamaica's National Commission on Reparations of the Ministry of Youth and Culture.
Port of Spain, March 19: A Jamaican lawyer has filed a lawsuit in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) aimed at forcing the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Belize to scrap immigration laws that bar the entry of gays and lesbians.
Legal representatives from Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Community made statements on Wednesday at a hearing on the suit, Efe news agency cited court registry supervisor Nandlal Hardial as saying.