The Fifth Quarterly Regional Sustainable Energy Meeting was held on 30 September using a virtual platform. The RSEP seeks to encourage dialogue among all development Partners and organizations involved in regional level sustainable energy initiatives/Projects in CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) stakeholders in the field of energy, as well as International Development Partners that are active in the regional energy sector will gather in Barbados 11 July, 2013, to discuss initiatives and activities identified as part of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS) Phase 1 Study.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A number of Guyanese youth interested in starting their own businesses will soon be benefitting from entrepreneurial workshops and seminars hosted through the regional Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO). The programme will start with a training of trainers workshop Monday October 21- Thursday October 24.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Consensus on priority programmes and needs, and increased national leadership to sustain the regional AIDS response are among the expected outcomes of a meeting of national AIDS programme managers, donors and regional partners on October 21-23, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad, in Port of Spain.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations Directorate at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, on Tuesday said statistics played a vital role in the Community because “it is crucial in providing data for evidence-based policies that can guide and monitor progress at the country and regional levels.”
Statistics has been playing a significant part in the evolution of our Community through the provision of data based upon which decisions could be guided. It is a happy coincidence that such an important element of the Region’s social and economic life, is celebrating the International Year of Statistics in the same year of the Community’s 40th Anniversary.
The First Bi-Regional Dialogue (Caribbean–EU) Workshop under the EUCARINET Project was hosted by the CARICOM Secretariat in conjunction with the consortium of Project Partners from Europe and Caribbean, in April 2013 at the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana
A group of nine energy and environment representatives of the Caribbean Community participated in a one week - 21/22 Sept to 28/29 Sept - visit to Germany, compliments of the German Federal Foreign Office Visitors Programme