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Millions of dollars, massive manpower needed to tackle Sargassum seaweed
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday August 18, 2015 – It would take at least US$120 million and more than 100,000 people to clean up the Sargassum seaweed that has created “an international crisis”
CDN Special Feature: THE SARGASSUM PHENOMENON IN THE CARIBBEAN
A SPECIAL (CDN) FEATURE
BY: RICARDO BLACKMAN (CDN) BARBADOS.
Following IICA training… Honey gets sweeter for local bee-keepers
LOCAL beekeepers who are members of the Guyana Apicultural Society (GAS) have said that a bee-keeping training programme organised for them by the Inter American Institute for Cooperation in A
CARICOM/Spain Reducing Youth on Youth Violence Project strengthens community partnership
Informed minds; proud faces and without doubt hearts too; all 104 of them between the ages of 5 to 18 years with their thirty-four parents of mostly mothers, indeed no less
Barbados to host major yachting event in 2017
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS. AUGUST 10, 2015 – Barbados has won the bid over Germany for the right to host one of the world’s leading yachting events in 2017.
CARICOM congratulates Cuba, US as steps to normalise relations continue
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated sister Caribbean nation Cuba and the United States on their ongoing moves to normalise relations.
CARICOM Chairman congratulates Haiti’s government, people on elections
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chairman of the Caribbean Communit
Caribbean Artists Raise Their Voices for Climate Justice
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Aug 10 2015 (IPS) - Award-winning St.
Caribbean tourism stakeholders say Cuba is region’s wakeup call
PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten, Friday July 3, 2015 – Relatively little effort has been spent on turning the most tourism dependent region in the world into the most tourism competent, according to a whit
Jamaica phases out use of ozone-depleting compound in foam manufacturing industry
Jamaica has successfully phased out the use of a key ozone-depleting substance that was being used in the foam manufacturing industry.
Barbados renews call for debt relief for the Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)– Barbados Wednesday renewed a call for an international debt relief programme for developing countries like those in the Caribbean saying it was not enou
Guyana strengthening cyber security against hackers, fraudsters
Guyana is moving to insulate a number of loopholes and so drastically reduce the possibility of cybercrimes ranging from website hacking to fraud, officials said Wednesday.
Region’s Nurses lauded for contributing to one of the world’s highest immunization rates
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean can boast of having one of the highest immunization rates in the world -
Statement by the Caribbean Tourism Organization on the influx of Sargassum seaweed
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tues 11 Aug 2015 – The seasonal influx of Sargassum seaweed on Caribbean beaches has got the attention of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and tourism policymakers and
President Barack Obama’s Climate Change Plan 2015
United States’ President Barack Obama is set to launch a new energy programme to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of his ongoing bid to combat climate change.
Belize continues to bet on energy efficiency
As part of a regional effort to improve energy efficiency in CARICOM member states, the Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology and Public Utilities (MESTPU) of Belize has partnered with the O
Alternative ways of measuring development must be found
The United Nations (UN) is upbeat about advancing the process to reshape policies governing access to international public finance.
WHO says world on the verge of an effective Ebola vaccine
CONAKRY, Guinea, Friday August 7, 2015 – A newly developed vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus is proving to be “highly effective”, according to the World He