GUEST EDITORIAL: A thousand days to keep the Millennium Promise

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but starting this week we can march a thousand days forward into a new future. On April 5, the world will reach a vital moment in history’s largest and most successful anti-poverty push – the 1,000-day mark before the target date t...
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Caribbean pleased with role played in UN Arms Trade Treaty

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries were on Wednesday expressing satisfaction with the roles they played in a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). CARICOM countries voted in favour of the treaty on Tuesday to regulate the US$70 billion global trade in small arms, ...
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Chronic diseases killing Afro-Caribbeans

Caribbean trade bloc governments have been so worried about the stark increase in chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension among citizens that they have twice organized special summits to address the issue and even pushed the United Nations into holding a high-level meeting to find ways of re...
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Caribbean immigrants re-taken into custody

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says agents have taken 28 Caribbean and other immigrants back into custody after they were recently released from detention centers and jails around the country. ICE said the immigrants were re-taken “a...
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EU funds to boost Caribbean agriculture

GEORGETOWN—The European Union is providing Euro 8.6 million (One Euro =US$1.30 cents) to boost agriculture in the Caribbean. The funds are being provided under the tenth European Development Fund (EDF) Intra-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Agriculture Policy Programme for the Caribbean bet...
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Energy ministers meet for special COTED in Trinidad

(CARICOM Secretariat)) Dr. the Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, will lead his delegation to a special meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy which will be held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad a...
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Regional foreign ministers to meet in Panama

PANAMA CITY, Panama, CMC – Foreign ministers from three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will attend the 18th Ordinary Meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) on Friday, according to a statement from the Trinidad-based ACS Secretariat. It said tha...
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A Caribbean style Schengen visa programme

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are being urged to review their visa regimes so as to lure more visitors to the region. The recommendation comes from the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Aviation Task Force, a highly focused committee established to faci...
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