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Government of Guyana, CARICOM Development Fund ink US$18M Agricultural Agreement

The Government of Guyana and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) yesterday signed a US$18 million financing agreement to kickstart the Agricultural and Infrastructural Development Programme (AIDP), which will see over 4,300 farmers across the ten regions of Guyana benefitting, with forty per cent of the beneficiaries being women and youth. The programme will allow for a further boost to Guyana’s agriculture sector in the form of support for compliance with food safety, sanitary and phytosanitary standards in the sector.

CARICOM Development Fund Provides initial US$100,000 cash contribution to Hurricane Beryl Recovery Efforts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Bridgetown, Barbados – September 10, 2024 – The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has made a cash contribution of US$100,000 or approximately EC$270,000 from its  Emergency Disaster Assistance Facility (EDAF) to the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to assist in recovery efforts following the devastating impact of Hurricane Beryl on July 1, 2024.

Message of Condolence from the Caribbean Community on the passing of Ambassador Lorne Mc Donnough, CD

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply saddened at the passing of Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, CD, on Thursday, 8 August 2024.

Ambassador McDonnough had a career of distinguished service to the Caribbean Community. He served as the first Chief Executive Officer of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), where he managed, inter alia, the Country Assistance Programmes providing financial and technical assistance to disadvantaged countries, regions and sectors in the Community.

CDF And The United States Partner To Launch For Building Caribbean Resilience

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - posting on behalf of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) Bridgetown, January 29, 2024 – The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), in partnership with the United States officially launched the CARICOM Resilience Fund in Barbados, on January 26, 2024.  The new US$100 million blended finance vehicle, with technical assistance provided by the U.S.

Green Climate Fund affirms its partnership with CDB

(Caribbean Development Bank Press Release) – The Green Climate Fund and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Friday signed a legal agreement to open doors for more climate finance projects in the Caribbean Region.

The signing of the Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) took place on the margins of the Green Climate Fund’s Caribbean Structured Dialogue meeting in Grenada, and which brought together regional stakeholders to plan climate action across the Caribbean Region.

CDF grant ensures further development of ‘De Strip’

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Development on the South Frigate Bay Beach Enhancement Project, popularly known as “De Strip”, is set to enter a new phase, after the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis signed an agreement effectively securing additional financing for the project.

Jamaica Signs and Ratifies Amendment to CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) Agreement

CDF, Bridgetown, Barbados, 21 Feb. 2017:   Senator The Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, signed and ratified on behalf of Jamaica the Amendment to Annex III of the Agreement Relating to the Operation of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) on the occasion of the Twenty-Eighth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Georgetown Guyana (February 16-17, 2017).

Guyana stands to be first country to receive assistance from CDF in second funding cycle

Guyana is likely to be the first member state to benefit from a new country assistance programme (CAP) under the CARICOM Development Fund’s (CDF) 2015-2020 funding cycle, since that country is already eligible to receive further support by virtue of having paid up its full assessed contribution to the organisation.

CEO Rodinald Soomer disclosed this recently stating: “The CDF is ready and willing to make this possible and wishes to thank the government of Guyana for its demonstration of commitment to, and confidence in, the CDF.

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