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CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and President of Haiti H.E. Michel Martelly (head table) and their delegations hold a working session on the margins of the 2nd EU-CELAC summit in Brussels.
Strong CARICOM presence as EU-CELAC Summit opens today in Brussels

Several CARICOM Heads of Government are in Brussels for the 2nd EU-CELAC Summit, which opens today and concludes tomorrow.

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Fisheries
The Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy: Breaking the cycle of poverty in fishing…

Social protection exists when governments develop policies and programmes to address economic, environmental and social vulnerabilities to food insecurity and poverty.

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Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and The Political Declaration on HIV/…

I have the honour  to speak on behalf of the fourteen member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at this plenary meeting to review the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment

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CRDARI wants to help CARICOM Cannabis Commission

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jun 8, CMC – The St.

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Mr. Christopher Corbin
World Oceans Day: an opportunity to showcase new, emerging opportunities

World Oceans Day was celebrated on Monday 8 June 2015.

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Delegates at the Meeting in Barbados (Photo via PAHO)
NCDs under focus in Barbados

The Forum of ‘Key Stakeholders on NCDs: Advancing the NCD Agenda in the Caribbean’, now underway in Bridgetown, Barbados, is a high level meeting were health leaders from throughout the Caribbean a

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Caribbean-US High-Level Citizen Security Dialogue: – front row, from left: the Hon. Fred Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration; Roberta S. Jacobson, US Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA); the Rt. Hon Perry
The Region and US commit to strong joint citizen security measures

Governments of the Caribbean and the United States agreed to undertake a number of security-related priority actions at a High Level Security Cooperation Dialogue, held in The Bahamas, 4 June, 2015

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Region a steward to important ocean resources

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has links with the ocean that surrounds it that can be described as spiritual, cultural and economic.

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On November 15, 2012, two Red Cross officials review a map of Campeche, a neighborhood targeted by the American Red Cross for a community regeneration project. (Photo: Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross)
Red Cross builds just six houses with $500 million after Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday June 8, 2015 – The Red Cross has been called to account for its operation in Haiti, after reports emerged claiming that the charity had built just six houses in the im

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Colleen Wint (second left) with other international network partners
CKLN-C@ribNET -  Part of the Global MAGIC Project

Caribbean academics and researchers are now able to be part of a network of worldwide collaborators with access to collaboration tools, as well as a means to application-sharing over the next 24 mo

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President David Granger
CARICOM critical to Coalition administration’s foreign policy –President Granger tells T&T-…

THE A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government will be prioritising regional integration,   President David Granger told Trinidad-based media entity, WIN T

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CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque shares a light moment with Staff of Human and Social Development Directorate, Ms. Amrika Singh who coordinated the World Environment Day Presentation and Ms. Myrna Bernard.
CARICOM SG lauds Secretariat’s celebration of World Environment Day

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has lauded as “commendable and timely,” the CARICOM Secretariat’s cele

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Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Sharon Belmar-George (Photo via Saint Lucia News Online)
Saint Lucians on heat stroke alert as drought conditions persist

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Friday May 5, 2015 – St.

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Dr. Ronnie Brathwaite, CARICOM Deputy Programme Manager, Agricultural Development, on World Environment Da
CARICOM Secretariat celebrates World Environment Day 2015

As the Region celebrates World Environment Day 2015, the CARICOM Secretariat is conscious of issues related to the environment and agriculture, particularly sustaining the environment to ensure foo

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climate action
CARICOM Declaration For Climate Action
We, the Heads of State and Government of CARICOM Member States, at our Thirty-Sixth Regular Meeting
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Participants of the Caribbean Regional Health Security (CHRS) meeting
Beyond Ebola, laying foundations for Caribbean Regional Health Security

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, June 4, 2015:  Diseases do not recognise borders, and as such, communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics pose a major threat to health, tourism, social a

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Chair of CARICOM, the Rt Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas
Influx of gun, youth hopelessness must be tackled – CARICOM Chair at Security Dialogue

A problem that is of special concern to us is the continuing influx of guns, and the increase in gun-related criminality, not only in The Bahamas but throughout the region.

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CARICOM Youth Ambassador to Barbados and Vice Dean of Regional Initiatives Ms. Sade Jemmott (2nd left) and other participants at a workshop on 'Evidence-based Policies on Youth Development in the Caribbean' hosted 2-4 June, 2015 in Bridgeto
Regional Youth Development Workshop timely, dynamic – Barbados CYA

I am happy to be a part of such a timely and dynamic youth-focused workshop and I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to be a presenter.”

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Google promises to pay more attention to Caribbean’s needs

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday June 4, 2015 —The first-ever Caribbean Peering and Internet Connection Forum (CarPIF) has concluded with commitments from Internet companies Akamai Technologies

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