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Over 37,000 hits for Facebook link to livestream for interaction with CARICOM SG

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Over thirty-seven thousand hits were received from users of the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Facebook page leading up to a Social Media Interaction with CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Tuesday.

The social media interaction was hosted at the Secretariat’s headquarters in Georgetown Guyana. Its purpose was to expose young people across the Region to the work of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Secretariat and the institutions of the Community.

CARICOM Secretary General to host social media interaction with youth on Tuesday

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will host a social media interaction with youth across CARICOM on Tuesday between 6:00 and 8:00pm. The main topic for discussion will be the CARICOM Youth Development Action Plan (CYDAP) which was developed to guide national policy, integrated planning and action regarding youth.

C@ribNET - a step in the right direction for CARICOM says Secretary General LaRocque

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has stated that C@ribNET was a step in the right direction for CARICOM.  He was speaking to Ministers and delegates at the opening ceremony for the forty-eighth (48th) Special Meeting of the Council on Trade and Economic Integration (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Grand Anse Grenada on Friday.

ICT and Human Resource Development, the catalyst to sustainable economic growth and development for CARICOM

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     ICT and Human Resource Development fused together could be the catalyst to enhancing prospects for sustainable growth and development for CARICOM. That was the sentiment expressed by Prime Minister of Grenada Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell at the opening ceremony for the forty-eighth (48th) Special Meeting of the Council on Trade and Economic Integration (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Grenada on Friday.

ICT new frontier for regional integration – SG

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ministers and delegates to the Caribbean Community’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), led by the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr the Rt Honourable Keith Mitchell, were given a demonstration of the cutting edge of technology in the Region.

C@ribnet demo makes impact at ICT Ministerial meeting

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ministers and delegates to the Caribbean Community’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), led by the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr the Rt Honourable Keith Mitchell, were given a demonstration of the cutting edge of technology in the Region.

CARICOM moves to harmonise literacy data

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is forging ahead with a programme designed to harmonise the measurement of literacy data to advance the production of reliable information for better decision making in this area.
Education officials, statisticians and other experts gathered in Barbados on Tuesday and Wednesday for the CARICOM Fourth Technical Workshop on a Common Framework for a Literacy Survey under an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Regional Public Goods Project.