Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: The Borough of Point Fortin hosted the final site visit of Councillor Michael Thompson, a Program Steering Committee member for the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED). Councillor Thompson concluded a one week monitoring mission that began in Guyana on July 20, 2014.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 22nd 2014 (CUOPM) – The Caribbean aspires to be become the first region in the world to end AIDS.
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas also told the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday there is need for AIDS to be positioned within the broad context of health, poverty and equality.
Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne has signed a memorandum of agreement with Sheikh Tariq bin Faisal Al Qassimi on a $120 million hotel project, the government announced.
The agreement with the United Arab Emirates-based investor was signed on Sunday after negotiations following Browne’s trip to Brazil last week.
Al Qassimi signed the agreement on behalf of Al Caribi Development, which will develop a five-star branded luxury resort project on Morris Bay near the island’s famous Curtain Bluff hotel.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 21ST 2014 (CUOPM) –St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Patrice Nisbett is leading a four-person delegation to the ground-breaking First CARICOM-Turkey Consultation and Cooperation Meeting which concludes Monday in Istanbul, Turkey.
This Meeting is the final culmination of talks that began in July 2013 when the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, the Hon. Ahmet Davutoğlu, first extended the invitation to the Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Secretary General.
Drawn from 11 territories, tax administrators are meeting in Guyana for five days to deliberate on a number of tax issues, exchange ideas and share experiences in keeping with the theme for the shaping of useful approaches to tackling problems common among administrations.
The Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti are close to signing a memorandum of understanding to deal with the continued problem of irregular migration from Haiti to the TCI, according to Minister of Border Control and Labour Ricardo Gardiner.
Speaking at the 2014 budget address, the Minister said the two sides had produced the final draft of a memorandum of understanding and “will be signed shortly.”
Progression of the pact is being facilitated by the office of Turks and Caicos Governor Peter Beckingham, he said, but “is being driven from my office.”
Caribbean news. Bridgetown, BARBADOS, July 14, 2014. The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has announced the awarding of BBD 8,081,874.06 (€2,992,287) to firms and Business Support Organisations (BSOs) across the region via their flagship programme the Direct Assistance Grant Scheme (DAGS) as part of the Regional Private Sector Development Programme (RPSDP) funded by the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF)
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon begins a visit to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Monday, the world body announced.
Ban is set to meet with senior government officials and “get a first-hand look at programmes designed to improve health and reduce poverty,” according to a UN statement.
The Haiti portion of Ban’s trip is to include a visit to a village in the Central department, where Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe will launch the country’s new “Total Sanitation Campaign,” which aims to improve sanitation and rural hygiene interventions.
UNITED NATIONS, CMC — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged Caribbean nationals and others in the Americas to decrease salt intake to help reduce hypertension - the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
"Salt reduction is recognised as the most cost-effective intervention for population-based prevention of hypertension, and it is one of the
WHO (World Health Organisation) best buys," said PAHO's Dominican-born Director Dr Carissa F Etienne, last week.
Barbados’ government has formulated a national intellectual property strategic plan, it said this week.
The plan, which is being developed with the assistance of the World Intellectual Property Organization, aims to make the country’s economy “more competitive globally,” the government said.
According to Heather Clarke, registrar of Barbados’ Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office, “such competitiveness could only be achieved through creativity, productivity and innovation in the economic, cultural and social sectors.”