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Christopher Roberts, Coordinator, CARCIP Saint Lucia, with students from Sir Arthur Lewis Community College last week
CARCIP partners with local college to expand internet access in St Lucia
CASTRIES, St Lucia -- The Saint Lucia ministry of public service, information and broadcasting is partnering with the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College to conduct a series of surveys, as part of a
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Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Robert Ready
Canadian high commissioner commends CARICOM Single Market
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Canadian high commissioner to Jamaica, Robert Ready, has commended Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states on the significant advances made in the CARICOM Single Market, in
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Rash caused by Chikungunya (Photo via Caribbean Journal)
Traditional herbal remedies harnessed to treat chikungunya in Antigua
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tuesday March 31, 2015 – Last summer, 38-year-old Sira Berzas from Antigua and Barbuda was struck down with chikungunya, the mosquito-borne disease that has swept through t
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Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and OAS Assistant Secretary-General Albert Ramdin at the opening ceremony of the First Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law (Photo via OAS)
Environmental Rule of Law Meeting opens in Jamaica
More than 100 high-level officials including judges, prosecutors, parliamentarians, experts from international organizations, academics, students, and representatives of civil society and the
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(L-R): Peter Nygard of Nygard International and Dr Eugene Redmond, President of the St Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation.
Stem cell research and treatment facility to be established in St Kitts
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) -- Plans are in the works to establish a stem cell research and treatment center in St Kitts in the near future.
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Chair of CARICOM, the Rt Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas
CARICOM seeks international support for socio-economic growth
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 31, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are still grappling with the effects of global economic crisis as well as the impact climate change, Bahamas Prime Minister Per
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BTMI Chairman, Alvin Jemmott (pictured) as well as cricketing legends, the Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers and Joel Garner, are in Cape Town, South Africa to promote the tournament. (FP)
Barbados To Host Golden Oldies Cricket Festival
Barbados has won the bid to host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players.
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The Hon Perry Christie, CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of The Bahamas
CARICOM Chairman addresses UN’s Economic and Social Council
Prime Minister Christie is in New York to participate in a high level dialogue during the 2015 integration segment of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on Monday, 30th Marc
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Caribbean Fisheries Forum to review regional spiny lobster declaration
Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen (17) Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), as well
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a cacao plantation (CJ Photo)
Transforming Caribbean Cocoa
By the Caribbean Journal staff
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Caribbean Export, OAS partner to enhance businesses through ICT
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in collaboration with the 
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Verene Shepherd, a member of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent of the Human Rights Council. (Photo via Jamaica News)
UN wants end to Racism, Intolerance as World Commemorates Anti-discrimination Day
Almost 50 years after the proclamation of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN has been told that too many individuals, communities and societies continue
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His Excellency Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona swears in Madame Justice Maureen Rajnauth-Lee as new CCJ Judge (Photo via CCJ)
New CCJ Judge sworn in
The Honourable Mme.
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Caribbean Export Explores Technical Management Unit To Support Regional Trade
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- Following the successful hosting of a business forum in the Cayman Islands, for private sector firms, the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) explo
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 23 commemorates the opening of GHESKIO's new tuberculosis hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
GHESKIO Opens New Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti
In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Haitian Study Group on Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma, or 
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From left: tech entrepreneurs Ricardo Gowdie, Dave Oakley, Alesha Aris and Mannin Marsh with Minister Julian Robinson. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)  Three local start-up technology companies have been selected to benefit from a US$90,000 ($10.3 million)-
Tech entrepreneurs head for training in Jordan
Three local start-up technology companies have been selected to benefit from a US$90,000 ($10.3 million)-investment and a trip to Jordan-based accelerator company Oasis500.
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Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (2nd right) participates in the unveiling of the “Ark of Return” – the Permanent Monument to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave
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Commission committed to eliminating HIV stigma
The National HIV/AIDS Commission is actively working towards the goal of having an AIDS free, HIV stigma and discrimination free generation by 2020.
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World Bank funds ICT workshops
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Mar. 26, CMC - The World Bank is funding a series of training workshops intended to strengthen St.Lucia's information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
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