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Professor Rhoda Reddock

Professor Rhoda Reddock, national of Trinidad and Tobago and esteemed scholar of the Caribbean Community, is the seventh outstanding woman from the Caribbean Community to receive the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women. Attaining a Doctorate in Applied Sociology in 1984 at the University of Ams...
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Sir Edwin Carrington

As the 20th century came to a close, the Caribbean Community continued to be confronted with major challenges and urgent tasks. The changes in the international political and economic system became pronounced after the collapse of the Soviet system in 1989. The world was then configured as unipolar ...
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Vidiadhar Surajpra-sad Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajpra-sad Naipaul was born in1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad, close to Port of Spain, in a family descended from immigrants from the north of India. His grandfather worked in a sugar cane plantation and his father was a journalist and writer. At the age of 18 Naipaul travelled to England wh...
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Trinidad and Tobago

Key facts Date of Membership in CARICOM: 1 Aug 1973 Also Known as:Land of the Humming Bird Status of Independence:Independent 1962/08/31 Area: 5,128 km2 (1,980 miles2) Capital City: Port-of-Spain Population: 1,308,600 (208) Currency: Trinidad and Tobago Dollar (TT) Highest Na...
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Ambassador Hon. Edwin W. Carrington

Sir Edwin Wilberforce Carrington, TC, CM, KCN, CHB, OCC is the former Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), serving from 1992 to 2010. Academic career Born in Parlatuvier in Tobago, Carrington attended the University College of the West Indies and McGill University, M...
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HIPCAR Project

Enhancing competitiveness in the Caribbeanthrough the harmonization of ICT Policies,Legislation and Regulatory ProceduresStart: 2008 Ended: 2013HIPCAR Project was conceived by the ITU, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Caribbean Telecommunication union (CTU) in response to reques...
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Brian Charles Lara, T.C

CITATION FOR THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC) 2008   English speaking Caribbean communities have made their greatest single cultural investment in the cricket enterprise. Citizens have come to measure the extent of community detachment from the oppressive grip of the colon...
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