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Statistics workshop underway in Trinidad and Tobago

A statistics workshop focusing on National Accounts is now underway in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Competition Sensitization for Judges Concludes in Belize

The CARICOM Secretariat winds up its sensitization sessions for judges in competition law and policy this Friday, June 17 in Belize at the Radisson Fort George Hotel.

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Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Chairman of the OECS, Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris
The OECS Stands as a Beacon On The Hill To The Process of Regional Integration, Says Prime Minister…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 13, 2016 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and recently-appointed Chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr.

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FLASHBACK: CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development Dr. Douglas Slater, prepares to run with the athletes at the CARICOM 10k race held in Barbados in 2015
Mark! Set! Go! CARICOM 10k Race to be held 3 July

The twelfth Annual CARICOM 10K race will be held on Sunday, 3 July, 2016, at 6:00 am in Georgetown, Guyana.

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Practical approaches needed to engage youth in agriculture – Trinidad and Tobago Minister
Practical approaches needed to engage youth in agriculture - Trinidad and Tobago Minister

Young agriculture entrepreneurs (agripreneurs) from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were involved in sessions with senior agricultural planners during the week geared at strengthening regi

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Marijuana conversation moves forward in CARICOM

The formal regional conversation around marijuana in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will move to another level when the first national consultation on the issue is held on Wednesday, 15 June in

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Trade, investment prominent as CARICOM, SELA host meeting in Georgetown

Trade and integration officials from member countries of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), gather in Georgetown, Guyana, nex

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CARICOM Climate Change Institution wins international award

The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has been awarded the 2016 Energy Globe for a project submitted on Be

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UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé
2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS sets world on the Fast-Track to end the…

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 8 June 2016—UNAIDS welcomes the new goals, targets and commitments of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on Ending AIDS.

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L-R (Front Row): Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris; Hon. Wendy Colleen Phipps; H.E. Ambassador Sam Condor L-R (Back Row) Dr. Edward Greene; Dr. Slater
PANCAP - A best practice and regional coordination model for the world

PANCAP shined at a Breakfast Caucus held on 8 June 2016 to brief Caribbean delegates and to cement a consolidated regional position for the plenary sessions and side meetings of the United Nations

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A view of the General Assembly Hall during the High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
UN adopts declaration on ending AIDS

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 8, CMC – The United Nations Wednesday adopted a progressive, new and actionable Political Declaration on Ending AIDS which includes a set of specific, time-bound targets that mu

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CARPHA collaborates to protect the Caribbean’s Oceans

  In observance of World Oceans Day which is celebrated on June 8 each year we take a look at the work that one of our

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Haiti’s provisional president Jocelerme Privert (Photo via Reuters)
Haiti scraps election; interim president says could stay for months

Haiti’s interim president, Jocelerme Privert, has told the Reuters News Agency that he will stay in office until next year to transfer power to an elected president unless parliament rule

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Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves
Caribbean integration is possible, St Vincent PM tells ACS summit

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Dr Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, reaffirmed on Saturday in Havana that integration in Latin America and the Caribbean is a possible, realis

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Competition Law, Policy Training Seminar for St. Kitts and Nevis

Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, together with the CARICOM Competition Commission, is hosting a training seminar on Competition Law and Policy on Monday&nbs

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Reflect, act to safeguard Caribbean Sea – CARICOM on World Oceans Day

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as steward of the the Caribbean Sea – the second largest sea in the world – is joining in the observance of World Oceans Day today.

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A young farmer harvests cassava in Guyana. (Photo: Canbean Associates Inc.)
Putting together policy and strategy to work for small and medium agricultural producers

Making policy and planning strategies that are practical, useful and workable was the main objetctive at the Ninth Regional Planners Forum on Agriculture in the Caribbean, currently taking pla

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