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CARICOM Observers in Suriname: Standing, back row, from left: Devanand Persaud; Glendon Bennett; Brian Bellevue (Deputy Programme Manager, Foreign and Community Relations, CARICOM Secretariat); Ian Browne (Chief of Mission). Sitting, front Row, from
Suriname elections transparent, free and fair – CARICOM Observer Mission

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE CARICOM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION (CEOM) TO GENERAL ELECTIONS OF SURINAME

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Anthony Phills has designed the Hilton HHonors for HIlton Worldwide. (Photo: Madeline Eiden)
Trinidadian designs mobile app for prestigious Hilton hotel group

CALIFORNIA, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – Trinidad-born entrepreneur and mobile specialist, Anthony Phills, has designed a mobile app for Hilton Worldwide, a leading global hospitalit

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Caribbean countries to improve climate change resilience with IDB grant

WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – The Caribbean region will increase its resilience to climate change by enhancing the adaptive capacity across the region through a US$10.39 m

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Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Ronald Jackson
Climate Change - Full response critical

Executive Director for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson has rapped the region’s response to climate change.

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Haiti gets US$50 million for cleaner water and sanitation in cholera hot spots

WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – About 300,000 people from Haiti’s cholera-affected rural areas and small towns will benefit from increased access to clean water and sanitati

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Senator Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados
Minister weighs in on region’s development

Government is expressing its gratitude to the United Nations Development Programme and the entire United Nations system, for their assistance in helping the country to achieve the Millennium Develo

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Banking
Redefining banking models to sieze digital age opportunities

Customers across the Caribbean look longingly at innovations in the US and other markets, such as full-service online and mobile banking, marketplace lending facilities and merchant payment solutio

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Guyana Independence Monument
CARICOM congratulates Guyana on 49 years

The Caribbean Community heartily extends congratulations to the Republic of Guyana on the celebration of forty-nine years of independence. 

 

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Hon. Fred Mitchell, Foreign Minister of The Bahamas (c) signs three agreements during the COFCOR Meeting in St. Lucia. COFCOR Chairman and Minister of Foreign Affairs of St. Lucia Hon. Alva Baptiste (l) and CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin
The Bahamas signs on to major Agreements

The Bahamas used the occasion of the just-ended 18th Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) to sign Instruments of Accession to three agreements.

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HIV AIDS in the Caribbean - Strengthening and expanding community-based approaches

Strengthening and expanding community-based approaches to delivering HIV treatment is vital to the long-term success of the AIDS response, according to a report launched on 20 April by Médecin

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CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to the General Elections in Suriname
CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission in Suriname – update

It is the intention of the Mission to observe the activities of the poll in as many constituencies as possible and as many polling stations as time permits.  In this regard, the C

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File Photo: A School in Central Belize
CDB approves US$35M loan to improve education access in Belize

More children are expected to gain access to education in Belize with the construction of 35 new schools and the provision of 5,300 additional places across pre-primary, primary and secondary level

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CARICOM Observers in Suriname: Standing, back row, from left: Mr. Devanand Persaud; Mr. Glendon Bennett; Mr. Brian Bellevue (Deputy Programme Manager, Foreign and Community Relations, CARICOM Secretariat); Mr. Ian Browne (Chief of Mission). Sitting,
CARICOM observers monitoring elections in Suriname

A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Electoral Observer Mission is on the ground in Suriname to monitor the general elections underway today.

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CARICOM Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Ministry Officials and CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque at the COFCOR Meeting
Communiqué Issued at The Conclusion Of The Eighteenth Meeting Of The Council For Foreign And…

The Eighteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) took place in Castries, Saint Lucia, on 21-22 May 2015, under the chairmanshi

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File Photo: Farmer
Farmers and Communities to Benefit from Climate Change Adaptation Project

Soil erosion management, solar power energy and an improved building code are some of the areas to be handled under a Climate Change Adaptation project estimated at more than one million Eastern Ca

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Picture by Patricio Zambrano-Barragán. Parc Industriel de Caracol (PIC)
Haiti getting $27M for transportation improvements

(Caribbean Journal) Haiti is getting a $27 million grant to improve transportation infrastructure, following approval from the Inter-American Development Bank.

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Delegates at the Caribbean Development Bank’s Board of Governors Meeting May 2015 (Photo via Caribbean Development Bank)
CDB’s Board of Governors Meeting ends with pledge to fight poverty more creatively

The continuing impact of poverty and high unemployment on the Region emerged as one of the key areas of concern for Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) who wrapped up the 45th Annual

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Regional statistics stakeholders meet to chart way forward post-2015

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Officials involved in the field of statistics will next week begin a four-day training session that will focus on

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