Roseau, Dominica -The ceremony to mark Dominica’s accession to the appellate jurisdiction of theCaribbean Court of Justiceis set for Friday, March 6, 2015. The ceremony will begin from 10:00am and will be held at the State House Conference Centre.
CARICOM leaders last week endorsed the idea of the CARICOM Secretariat and Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) preparing a proposal for a Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday received presentations by the two candidates proposed by the member states for the position of Assistant Secretary General – the current Permanent Representatives of Guyana, Bayney Karran, and of Belize, Nestor Mendez- in a special meeting that took place in Washington, DC.
Jamaica is slated to launch a $6 million climate change resilience project in the greater Kingston metropolitan area, the government announced this week.
The project is called “Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in LAC.” The latter refers to Latin America and the Caribbean, where Jamaica was one of three countries selected by the United Nations Environment Programme to launch such a project.
“DELIVERED OR DENIED The Dividends of Integration” LECTURE BY THE HON. DR. KENNY D. ANTHONY PRIME MINISTER OF SAINT LUCIA & MINISTER FOR FINANCE, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, PLANNING & SOCIAL SECURITY AT THE DAAGA AUDITORIUM UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE CAMPUS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2015, 6:00PM
St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Kenny Anthony on Tuesday delivered a “Distinguished Open Lecture” on the topic, “Delivered or Denied: The Dividends of Integration” at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
Havana – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Jessica Faieta announced continued support to Cuba in the economic, social and environmental fronts.
At a press conference in Havana she said that UNDP will also place special emphasis on boosting renewable energy sources, especially through biofuel.
Jessica Faieta also mentioned the need to increase support to local development as well as import substitution.
Washington, 23 February 2015- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) launched today in Washington a partnership to support the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean, boosting access to energy and increasing the use of renewable energies and efficiency in the region, with specific goals by 2030.
A Caribbean Training Centre, warehouse and the Regional Coordination Centre are all now housed with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency’s (CDEMA), new eight million dollar headquarters, which was just launched at Resilience Way, Lower Estate, St. Michael.
Executive Director of CDEMA, Ronald Jackson, said the Centre, would focus mainly on the delivery of standardised training, even to the Master’s degree level.
Caribbean Community Labour Ministers opened a two-day conference in The Bahamas, Tuesday with their attention focused on pressing labour matters impacting the region.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier invited his counterparts from the states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to a conference in Berlin on 2 March. The talks focused on global issues such as climate change and renewable energies, as well as on efforts to reform the United Nations.