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CARIFESTA XIII ends in true Regional integration style

The Region’s cultural performers transformed the Kensington Oval in Barbados into a sea of Regional integration as they brought the curtains down on CARIFESTA XIII, Sunday night.  The Closing

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Barbados Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth Stephen Lashley handing over baton to CARIFESTA XIIII 2019 host country Trinidad and Tobago, Minister of Culture and Art, Dr Nyan Gadsby.
CARIFESTA XIII concludes; Trinidad and Tobago next host

The curtains came down on the thirteenth edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts CARIFESTA XIII last evening.

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Chile’s President, Michelle Bachelet and Executive Director of CDEMA, Ronald Jackson, chatting while on a tour of the Agency’s headquarters today. Also pictured is Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs, Adriel Brathwaite (right).
Climate change, disaster prevention highlighted during Chilean President’s visit to CDEMA

 

There is a lot that Barbados could learn from Chile, especially given that country’s experience with seismic matters.

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Her Excellency Elisabeth Eklund and CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, during the accreditation ceremony on Wednesday
CARICOM SG ASKS SWEDEN’S HELP ON BLACKLISTING ISSUE

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has urged Sweden to use its position in two major international organisations to highlight the unfair labelling of s

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Her Excellency Elisabeth Eklund and CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, during the accreditation ceremony on Wednesday
CARICOM SG calls for new model for development finance

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) believes that a new model for development finance needs to be considered.

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Coconut industry benefits from CARDI project

Since the implementation of the Caribbean Coconut Industry Development Project two-and-a-half years ago, the Caribbean Agricultural Rese

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What does ‘climate-smart agriculture’ really mean? New tool breaks it down

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 14 2017 (IPS) - A Trinidadian scientist has developed a mechanism for determining the degree of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) compliance with respect

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CARIFESTA XIII – An opportunity for Regional economic progress

Asserting our future, celebrating ourselves is the theme for the thirteenth  Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA XIII), which  takes place in Barbados on Augus

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Delegates at the Forty-Fourth General Meeting of the Regional Nursing Body being at the the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana
Regional Nursing Body Meets in Guyana

Nurses from across the Caribbean Community are currently gathered at the CARICOM Secretariat for the Forty-Fourth General Meeting of the Regional Nu

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Karolin Troubetzkoy, President of CHTA
CHTA JOINS FORCES WITH TRAVEL ASSOCIATIONS WORLDWIDE TO UNIFY SECTOR

MIAMI (August 9, 2017) - The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is partnering with travel associations around the world to strengthen the tourism sector in the region.  

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