The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) CARICOM will pay formal recognition to yet another distinguished daughter of the soil when it confers its prestigious Triennial Award for Women on Ms. Shirley Pryce of Jamaica.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly appointed Argentine Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Luis Alberto Martino, on Monday, expressed his country’s willingness to coordinate, consult and cooperate with CARICOM.
He was speaking during an official ceremony at the CARICOM Secretariat headquarters, Turkeyen, Guyana where he presented his letters of credence to CARICOM Secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. Ambassador Martino is the first Argentine Ambassador to CARICOM
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, CMC – A new report released on Thursday says family farming has key role to play in food security in the Caribbean and Latin America.
The report, “The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas 2014: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean,” presented at the 2013 Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas, says Latin America and the Caribbean can produce more food by increasing the sector's productivity in the face of restrictions on using new land for agriculture.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, CMC – Victor M. Villalobos was on Wednesday re-elected Director General of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA).
The Mexican national, who holds a doctorate from the University of Alberta in Canada, will serve from 2014 to 2018.
Caribbean agriculture ministers join their counterparts in re-electing Villalobos said the IABA had “acknowledged the work of a team drawn from all parts of the hemisphere and characterized by technical excellence and commitment”.
Buenos Aires, (Prensa Latina) Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, participated today via a video conference at the opening of a hospital in Haiti, and thanked them for appointing it Nestor Kirchner. "We are very excited and want to tell everyone that we are about to inaugurate a referral hospital in Haiti which is an initiative of that country with Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina as part of a decision of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)" , said the president.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, barely 12 hours after his election, quietly left the Vatican early on Thursday to pray for guidance as he looks to usher a Roman Catholic Church mired in intrigue and scandal into a new age of simplicity and humility. Francis, the Argentinian cardinal who has become the first pope born outside Europe in 1,300 years, went to Rome's 5th-century Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; there he prayed before a famed icon of Mary, the mother of Jesus, which is known as the Salus Populi Romani, or Protectress of the Roman People.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected a call by Argentina's president for Britain to give control of the Falkland Islands to Argentina. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wrote an open letter to the British leader accusing his country of colonialism. More than 30 years have passed since Britain and Argentina fought a 10-week war over the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the southwest Atlantic Ocean, but their dispute continues.