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The Bahamas National Youth Choir performs at the Opening Ceremony of the 26th Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Thursday morning, February 26, at Melia Nassau Beach Resort. (Photo vi
‘Invest in youth’ – CARICOM Chair at Summit opening

Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Rt. Hon.

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Workers use electricity and firewood to prepare cassava bread in Canaries, St. Lucia. The country’s government says renewable energy can help with value-added in the agricultural sector. Credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS
Falling Oil Prices Won’t Derail St. Lucia’s Push for Clean Energy

CASTRIES, Feb 25 2015 (IPS) - At Plas Kassav, a roadside outlet in Canaries, a rural community in western St.

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Ms Karolin Troubetzkoy
Karolin Troubetzkoy Appointed Chairman Of Caribbean Alliance For Sustainable Tourism

ST. LUCIA (February 25, 2015) - Prominent Caribbean hotelier Karolin Troubetzkoy has been appointed Chairman of the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST).

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Caricom
Antigua and Barbuda to launch UN International Decade for People of African Descent

The Government of Antigua and Barbuda and the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission will this evening (Thursday) launch the United Nations International Decade for People of African De

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Caricom
Participants hails CSME Media Workshop a success

Media personnel and spokespersons in Dominica who attended a three day CSME Media Workshop at the Windsor Park Stadium’s conference room has hailed the workshop as beneficial and informative.

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United Nations Secretary-General Special Envoy for HIV, Caribbean: Report to United Nations…

“While I fully understand the political constraints faced by our Heads of Governments in the court of public opinion, as UN Secretary-General Special Envoy, I must continue to make the case tha

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HIV AIDS Anti Retoviral Drug
Caribbean countries concerned over new strain of HIV/AIDS virus

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Caribbean countries were on Wednesday expressing concerns over a new strain of HIV virus that has been identified by Cuban scientists.

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Caricom
Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Secretary General Presents The State Of The Industry Report…

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Secretary General, Hugh Riley, presented the State of the Industry Report 2014 at a news conference at the CTO HQ in Barbados on Tuesday 10 February.

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CARICOM Chairman, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Rt. Hon. Perry Christie
CARICOM’s Human, Cultural and Natural assets – focus of attention at CARICOM Inter-sessional

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  “Young people matter.

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People eat near the pool at the new Marriott hotel after the hotel’s opening ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Haiti’s second international-branded hotel opened Tuesday in what backers of the project and officials
Officials in Haiti celebrate completion of Marriott hotel

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A second international-branded hotel opened Tuesday in the Haitian capital in what backers of the project and officials hope will be a spur to further economic develop

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Caricom
WICB hails Windies, Gayle’s landmark

The West Indies Cricket Board has extended sincere congratulations to Chris Gayle, following his amazing double hundred that prop

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Aedes aegypti Mosquito
CARPHA Places Mosquito-borne Diseases as a High Priority in the Public Health Agenda

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, February 24, 2015.  The emergence of the Chikungunya virus in the Caribbean in 2013, led to more than 800,000 suspected cases in the Caribbean and Latin Ame

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President Donald Ramotar announces February 28 dissolution of Parliament
February 28 dissolution of Guyana Parliament – President Ramotar

I therefore wish to announce that earlier today I issued the Proclamations that identify 28th February, 2015 as the date of the Dissolution of the 10th Parliament

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Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. (FP)
Barbados Prime Minister for CARICOM Inter-sessional Meeting

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is scheduled to leave the island tomorrow, Wednesday, February 25, to attend the Twenty-Sixth Inter-sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Communit

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Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris
PM Harris Pledges a New Beginning For St Kitts and Nevis

Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 23, 2015 (SKNIS): Prime Minister Dr.

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Guyana remains firmly with PetroCaribe

Ever since the inception of PetroCaribe in 2005, Guyana has remained firmly committed to the oil agreement.

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. Vice President for Export and Market Development at Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Robert Scott, highlights initiatives being undertaken to develop the local film industry, at a JIS Think Tank session
Jamaica can earn big from trillion-dollar film industry

News Americas Now, NEW YORK, NY, Monday, February 23, 2015: Vice President for Export and Market Development at Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Robert Scott, says the country can reap trem

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