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Suriname elections transparent, free and fair – CARICOM Observer Mission
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE CARICOM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION (CEOM) TO GENERAL ELECTIONS OF SURINAME
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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



















