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CARICOM SECRETARIAT CONDUCTS ASSESSMENT ON ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat are currently visiting Member States to assess their current position regarding statistics on the environment.

The team from the Secretariat’s Regional Statistics Programme is currently in Antigua and Barbuda after leaving Dominica on Thursday following a two-day visit. The team moves on to Jamaica on Monday, 26 November.

CARICOM MOURNS PASSING OF ANGELA CROPPER

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has eulogized Ms. Angela Cropper as an extraordinary, respected, beloved daughter of the Region who quietly, but steadfastly dedicated her life in service to humanity.
Ms. Cropper, a former Director of Functional Cooperation at the CARICOM Secretariat, and former Adviser to a previous Secretary-General, died last week.

CEBA TRAINING IN ST. KITTS GETS HIGH MARKS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The recently concluded Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) entrepreneurship training in St. Kitts, has been hailed a success as a number of benchmarks were achieved for the regional pilot programme.

Regional Media to Engage Experts on EPA

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Regional Media Workshop on the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-based EPA Implementation Unit, will be convened in St George’s, Grenada on 12-13 November. It is the second such Workshop that the Unit has organized, this time around in collaboration with the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Grenada National EPA Implementation Unit (NEPAIU).

ADDRESS HIV AND AIDS AND NCDS TO ERADICATE POVERTY

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “Eradicating poverty is the greatest challenge facing the world today,” and HIV and AIDS and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) must be addressed if poverty is to be eradicated.

This is the view of UN Assistant Secretary, Ms Elizabeth Thompson, who delivered the keynote address to the Official Opening of the Twelfth Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS, in Belize on 24 October.
 

CEBO PARTICIPANTS FORM BUSINESSES – BEGIN SELLING PRODUCTS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Five new companies commenced operations in St. Kitts on Thursday as part of the practical exercise of the Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) training taking place in Sandy Point, St Kitts and Nevis this week.

BAHAMAS AMBASSADOR TO CARICOM SAYS THE REGION MUST LOBBY AGAINST BARRIERS TO DEVELOPMENT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Picewell Forbes is by no means happy with the classification of most CARICOM highly-indebted States as “middle income economies,” and has insisted that CARICOM step up its advocacy on the issue as well as other development issues.

BAHAMAS REAFFIRMS CONFIDENCE IN THE CARICOM SECRETARIAT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Bahamas envoy to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Picewell Forbes has conveyed his Government’s “utmost confidence” in the CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the staff of the CARICOM Secretariat.

“I wish to reaffirm my Government’s recognition of the role of the Caribbean Community Secretariat in championing the cause of the membership of the Caribbean Community,” he added.

CARICOM OBSERVES ENERGY WEEK

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Next week, November 11-17, is CARICOM Energy Week, to be observed under the theme, Sustainable Energy Powering a Green economy.

CARICOM Energy Week, first observed last year, was established as an annual event based on a mandate from CARICOM Energy Ministers in 2011 to provide a platform for increased awareness about energy matters, given the critical importance of energy to economic development.

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