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Cross section of speakers and students at Girls in ICT Forum
Celebrating Girls in ICT - Girls Can Do It Too!

Port of Spain, 29/4/15  - Over 130 girls of the Bishop's Centenary College were introduced to the limitless possibilities for women in ICTs to commemorate International Girls in ICT Day.

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Embrace Opportunities of New Cuba-US Relations: Former Jamaican PM Tells EU-CARIFORUM Business Forum
CARICOM Youth Ambassadors attend Youth Ministers-Youth Leaders Forum

CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) represented at the Caribbean Region Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting  and Youth Leaders Forum,  in Antigua and Barbuda, April 28th -30th.

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Honourable Samantha Marshall Minister of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development, Gender and Youth Affairs
Honourable Samantha Marshall Minister of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development, Gender…


In October 2011, a report commissioned by Commonwealth Heads of Government made the following compelling statement:

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UN ranks T&T as happiest C’bean nation


Trinidad and Tobago has been named the “happiest” Caribbean nation again.

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Senator Mark Golding
Jamaica gets Cannabis Licensing Authority

Jamaica Observer – The Jamaica Cabinet has given approval for a 16-member Can

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Young Coconuts
EU funding project to develop coconut industry in the C’bean

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – The European Union is financing a project aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of small-scale coconut farmers by identifying market opportunities, creating synergies be

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Delegates at the Opening Ceremony 40th Council for Trade and Economic Development
CSM, private sector engagement, Cuba feature prominently at COTED

Action to ensure that the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) is placed on a more efficient footing to benefit Comm

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Food security programme begins in all schools

As it gets ready to re-launch its food security programme to secure investment from the private sector, the Ministry of Agriculture is doing its best to ensure primary and secondary schools are als

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Securing a Sustainable Caribbean Future – upcoming Forum

Regional and international leaders will gather in Port of Spain from 5 to 7 May 2015 to tackle intractable challenges to development and identify strategies for securing a sustainable Caribbean fut

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Dominica State College students welcome CSME

Students of the Dominica State College (DSC), who recently returned from a Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) study tour in St. Lucia, have welcomed the regional initiative.

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Since its creation seven years ago, CCRIF has made eight payouts amounting to US$32 million to help countries manage budget volatility in the aftermath of recent natural hazards. World Bank
Caribbean and Central American countries formalize partnership for catastrophe risk insurance

Washington, USA, April 18th, 2015 - The Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN) and CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean C

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CARICOM-WICB Meeting, Grenada, 20 April 2015: (l-r) Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua and Barbuda; Ambassador Emmanuel Nanthan, WICB Vice-President; Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of The Bahamas; Dr. Rt. Hon. K
Cricket Board structure to be reviewed: CARICOM-WICB Meeting agreement

CARICOM and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have agreed to establish a panel to conduct a review of the governance structure of the Board.

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Meeting of the CARICOM Cricket Governance Committee with the W.I. Cricket Legends: (l-r) Sir Viv Richards; Sir Wes Hall; Deryck Murray; Sir Andy Roberts; Dr. Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Dr. Rudy Webster; CA
Cricket Legends meet CARICOM Heads of Government

West Indies Cricket Legends Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Wesley Hall, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts, Deryck Murray, Gordon Greenidge and Michael Holding met in Grenada with the CARICOM Cricket

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Dr. C James Hospedales, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) (right) and Mikel Arriola, Head of Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) sign the MOU, on Thursday April 23 2015.
CARPHA and Mexico sign MOU to benefit 17 million Caribbean people

Mexico, April 23, 2015.  The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Health of the United Mexican States, through the Fede

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COTED dynamic, critical to achieving Community’s goals – Chair

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one of the greatest inventions for economic collaboration among Member States with the ultimate goal of creating benefits for people of the Region, Ch

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CARICOM-US Summit Head Table:  (l-r)  US President Barack Obama, CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of The Bahamas Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of Jamaica The Most Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller
Energy, Security and Competitiveness commitments: CARICOM-US Summit outcomes

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) moves forward from the recent CARICOM-US summit with seed funding for a sustain

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