Facilitating Intra-Regional Agri-Food Trade

This Brief:

Informs of the recent study on Non-Tariff Measures (NTM) and Non-Tariff Barriers (nTB), and their impacts on intra-regional agri-food trade.
Clarifies, in a concise manner, the context of this long-standing issue and the difference between nTMs and nTBs.
Calls for consensus on the need for, and type of concerted actions to be taken to ‘systematically dismantle’ as opposed to ‘eliminate’ these nTBs within CARICOM.
Confirms that there is precedent in the Region

MARIJUANA -Whither the Caribbean Community

To decriminalise, or not to discriminalise, or other. That’s the task of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government who have placed the marijuana issue high on the agenda of its Thirty-Ninth Regular Meeting in Jamaica, on 4-6 July 2017, and will consider the Report of the Regional Marijuana Commission (RMC).

‘Building back better’: a resilient Caribbean after the 2017 hurricanes

Building back better’ after a disaster intuitively makes sense, but it is challenging and requires a deep understanding of the causes of disaster, recovery processes and future climate and other risks. Critically, it requires high levels of commitment from policymakers and technical staff in national governments, from the international aid agencies and donors supporting recovery, and from communities already engaged in recovery.

Cannabidiol is ‘not likely to be abused,’ WHO says

(CNN)Two separate substances, two separate approaches: The World Health Organization endorsed a gentle view of cannabidiol this week while issuing its sternest warning yet against synthetic opio

CRFM, JICA concluding innovative Caribbean Fisheries Co-management project

BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 (CRFM)—An innovative fisheries project, which the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) has been coordinating since 2013 with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) across six OECS Member States, is nearing its end.

Happy World Development Information Day!

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat joins the world in celebrating World Development Information Day - a Day that was set aside by the United Nations for the world to be aware of the development problems that exist and to solve these problems by strengthening international cooperation.

CCS embarks on another important training session for Managers

The CARICOM Secretariat’s Managers and other Supervisors are taking part in a two-week training exercise aimed at improving performance on the work floor.

The “Coaching for Improved Performance” exercise is exposing the participants to processes and tools designed to ensure acceptable performance from all employees, provide better definitions for behaviours that constitute acceptable versus poor performance, and ensure that employees’ performance create a competitive advantage for the Secretariat.

CARDI taking action to help rebuild agriculture in Barbuda, Dominica

CARDI Executive Director, Mr.

Today is International Day for Disaster reduction – Is this year’s string of hurricanes a sign of things to come?

Joint Op-Ed by

Achim Steiner is Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme www.undp.org

Statistics Integral to the Single ICT Space

Caribbean Statistics Day is commemorated every year on 15 October; however, this year the celebration will be held within the region on Friday, 13 October 2017, under the theme: Improving the Lives of People – Advancing the Action Plan for Statistics in CARICOM.

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