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Regional programme launched to increase goat, sheep meat production

JAMAICA has endorsed a regional programme that seeks to improve the stock of sheep and goats in the country while training persons in animal husbandry, with particular emphasis on small ruminants.

The Latin American Small Ruminants Programme and the Caribbean Small Ruminants Capacity-uilding Programme are funded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the Government of New Zealand.

Apart from Jamaica, it involves six other Caribbean countries, namely Saint Lucia, Guyana, Belize, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Grenada.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines hosts first formal Regional Conversation on Marijuana in CARICOM

The first formal regional conversation around Marijuana in CARICOM got started here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday June 15.

Earlier in the day, Members of the Regional Commission on Marijuana engaged in a series of Focus Group Discussions with a wide cross section of stakeholders including the youth, faith based organizations, non- governmental organizations and special interest groups.

A Town Hall meeting was held later in the day at the Methodist Church Hall in Kingstown.

CARICOM Marijuana Commission: T&T ‘not ready’ for consultation

The Caribbean Collective for Justice (CCJ) is calling for Government to uphold its promise to discuss the decriminalization of marijuana.

The CCJ said it was informed by the head of the CARICOM Marijuana Commission, Professor Rose Marie Belle Antoine, that Trinidad and Tobago was to be the first country where the Commission would host its first national consultation, but the Government said it was “not ready”.

Reparations important to Barbados

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has reiterated that “the reparations issue is not based on a diplomacy of protest, but on a diplomacy of engagement”.

Mr. Stuart made the comments recently, while chairing a meeting of reparation stakeholders at Ilaro Court.

Prioritising the Caribbean Creative Industry through the Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit (CCIMU)

Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, June 17, 2016.  The process of cultivating a buoyant and sustainable cultural and creative economy within the Caribbean is a step closer with the development of a business plan to establish the Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit (CCIMU).
At the 26th Intercessional meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government held in February 2015, a recommendation was m

OAS and private sector to boost digital connectivity in the Americas

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The Organization of American States (OAS), several leading companies in the field of information and communications technologies (ICTs), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and a group of universities from across the region on Tuesday signed the “2030 ICT Alliance for the Americas” to expand connectivity in the region and to democratize the preparation of young people for participating in the modern economy.

OAS approves Declaration of Support for Belize and Guatemala

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Jun 14, CMC – The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) has approved a Declaration of Support for Belize and Guatemala in their ongoing efforts to find a peaceful solution to their border dispute.

While no details of the declaration have been released here, the OAS has officially tweeted that the declaration was approved during its 46th General assembly now underway here.

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