Sec-General of CARICOM Edwin Carrington CARISEC, Guyana -  His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has notified the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community of his decision to step down from his position, effective 31 December 2010. Mr. Carrington, a national of Trinidad and Tobago was appointed in 1992 –...
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CARISEC, Guyana – Trinidad and Tobago’s  first female Prime Minister and the newest addition to the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, the Hon Kamla Persad-Bissessar attended the 31st Conference of Heads of Government which opened in Montego Bay, Jamaica Sunday night, armed with a formidable slate of issues that she wanted the...
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CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana - The proposed Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) received full approval by several international partners at a Partners’ Conference in Washington on Monday. Director of the Pan American Health Organisation, PAHO/WHO, Dr Mirta Roses and more than 25 international partners endorsed the creation of this regional entity, which is expected to...
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CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana - Regional disaster risk management planning must break the “cycle of vulnerability” as without effective strategies to mitigate the risks linked to the agriculture sector, poverty reduction would not occur. These sentiments were expressed on Wednesday at the Caribbean Regional Disaster Management Symposium, currently underway in Antigua at the Jolly Beach Resort,...
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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, June 17th: Chiefs of Immigration and Comptrollers of Customs from across the Region have begun deliberations in a Joint Standing Committee Meeting which precedes the launch of the Regional Travel Card System in July 2010. In the absence of the Executive Director of The CARICOM Implementation Agency for...
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CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana  - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organization of American States (OAS) are forging partnerships to address the youth development agenda. On Tuesday 1 June, both partners sat around the discussion table at the OAS headquarters in Washington, DC and explored ways of collaborating to address the challenges and opportunities of youth in...
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CARISEC, Guyana -  The Sixth Summit of the European Union (EU)and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), described as “one of results and agreements,” has ended; and perhaps on a positive note for the Caribbean. The more than sixty leaders who met in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday agreed on a slate of measures aimed...
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CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana – Dr Hilary Brown, CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager on Culture and Community Development has observed that developing countries including CARICOM Member States have not maximized the opportunities presented within the cultural/creative industries sector, which she said, was one of the fastest growing sectors of the world-economy.   Dr Brown was one...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Natural disasters are forecast to cost the world around 300 billion US dollars by the year 2050, said Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Public Utilities, Honourable Mustapha Abdul-Hamid. Mr Hamid was speaking at the commissioning of a Doppler Weather Radar Facility in Brasso Venado, Tabaquite, Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday 31...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The CARICOM Secretariat has launched two consultancies to increase CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) awareness among targeted stakeholders and to enhance its public education programme. The projects seek to deepen the knowledge and understanding of Regional Integration, particularly the CSME. The consultancy firm, European Profiles has been contracted by the...
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