The Government is projecting that within two years, more than half of Jamaica’s electricity demand, totalling nearly 700 megawatts will be generated from renewable sources.
According to Finance and Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, this is based on the Government’s “aggressive” approach to fuel diversification resulting in over 200 megawatts of renewable energy already being supplied to the national power grid.
Local and regional entrepreneurs will have a rare opportunity to showcase their products to international buyers as well as shoppers from the Caribbean when the new CARIFESTA Grand Market and Buyer’s Shopping Mall opens at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC) on August 17.
The CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is a network of National Standards Bodies (NSBs), from the 15 Member States of CARICOM. See the video below on how
I am most honored for this opportunity to present my Letter of Accreditation as Finland`s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community.
Finland established bilateral relationship with CARICOM seven years ago. I have the honor to be the third Finnish Ambassador accredited to the organization.
Past few years have witnessed the construction of a solid and active partnership between Finland and the Caribbean countries and their organizations, primarily CARICOM.
Senior officials from the Caribbean Community and Japan hold the 18th CARICOM-Japan Consultation on Tuesday 14 March at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.
The consultation will, among other things, review CARICOM-Japan cooperation since their last Ministerial Meeting in 2016, and examine the CARICOM-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Fund and its current and planned projects.
On the occasion of the celebration of International Women’s Day, 2017, I take this opportunity to wish all women and particularly those in statistics all the best. In the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the contribution of women to statistics in the R egion must be undersc ored. Women are at the helm in t he Member States of The Bahamas, Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, Haiti and St Vincent and the Grenadines as well as the Associate Members of Anguilla, Bermuda and Cayman Islands.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, on Wednesday paid tribute to former President of Haiti, His Excellency René Préval, who died suddenly in his homeland last week.
Eighty CARICOM Secretariat staffers received certificates on Thursday, 8 September 2016, after an intensive week-long training on Writing with Impact. The professional development initiative, spearheaded by the Secretariat’s Office of the Deputy Secretary-General in collaboration with the Canadian Executive Service Organisation (CESCO), updated staff on current developments in the field.