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CARICOM expresses sympathy to cyclone ravaged Vanuatu

Message of Condolence from the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to the Prime Minister, Honourable Joe Natuman and the Government and People of the Rep

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Participants of the Training Exercise
Customs officers being trained in fight against wildlife trade

A number of Guyanese Customs and other Border Control Officers are currently undergoing a three day capacity building programme that is expected to better enable them to not only protect

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How Latin America and the Caribbean is ending hunger

BY RAÚL BENÍTEZ —This year marks a turning point in the global fight against hunger: 2015 is the deadline that world governments set to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and the go

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Caricom
Cholera coalition urges stepped-up support of water for Haiti

(PAHO/WHO) — On World Water Day 2015, the Regional Coalition for Water and Sanitation to Eliminate Cholera in Hispaniola is calling for stepped-up support from the internation

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Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary-General Human and Social Development CARICOM Secretariat
Message by Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary-General Human and Social Development on the…

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    World Water Day is being observed on 22 March 2015 under the themeWater and Sustainable Development.

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Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary-General Human and Social Development CARICOM Secretariat
Partnerships crucial for water sustainability – CARICOM ASG

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown)     At the world celebrates International Water Day on March 22, 2015, Assistant Secretary-General, Directorate of Human and

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Trinidadian Simmons New West Indies Cricket Head Coach

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board announced today the appointment of Phil Simmons to the role of West Indies Head Coach on a three-year contract.

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From left: Minister of Youth, Hon. Shawn Richards and CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, Sonia Boddie and Klieon John
St. Kitts/Nevis Youth Minister engages CARICOM Youth Ambassadors

New St. Kitts and Nevis Minister of Youth, the Hon. Shawn K.

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New OAS Assistant Secretary-General acknowledges ‘clear mandate’

The election of Ambassador Mendez took place in a vote in which he obtained 24 votes from the member states, compared with 10 received by the Permanent Representative of Guyana, Bayney Karran.

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Social Development Minister, Christine Newallo-Hosein, right, presents 73-year-old Marjorie Anderson of the Penal Centre with her certificate during last Friday’s National Poverty Reduction and Eradication Programmes Coordinating Unit graduatio
73-year-old graduates in computer literacy

Some 312 participants, including a 73-year-old woman, on Monday graduated from a computer literacy class hosted by the National Poverty Reduction and Eradication Programmes Coordinating Unit.

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Belizean students prepare for their mission
CSME students missions to kick off in April

Phase 1 of the 2015 CSME students missions begins on April 13-17 with the first batch of tertiary students from four participating CARICOM Member States: Belize, Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Lucia.

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Participants of the CSME Training Worlshop
Making Strides toward Improved CSME Access for CARICOM Nationals

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     CARICOM nationals will now have more efficient access to the provisions of the CARICOM

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CARICOM Creole speaking stakeholders talk CSME in Dominica

Creole speaking Dominicans, as well as Haitians residing in that CARICOM Member State got their chance on Thursday February 27th, 2015, to learn about the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) a

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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton
Jamaica To Lead Reform Of Int’l Laws On Ganja

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon.

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University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd
University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd

University of the West Indies’ Professor Verene Shepherd, has been invited by the United Nations to deliver the keynote address at the special commemorative sitting of the UN General Assembly

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Caribben Cout of Justice (CCJ)
Caribbean Countries Sued For Banning Entry Of Gays, Lesbians

Port of Spain, March 19: A Jamaican lawyer has filed a lawsuit in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) aimed at forcing the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Belize to scrap immigration laws t

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