The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) mourns the passing of the former Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Sir Dwight Venner.
Former CARICOM Youth Ambassador and local youth advocate, Miss Sonia Boddie, recently travelled to Quebec, Canada, at the invitation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), where she served as a panellist at the Quebec-UNESCO Conference on “Internet and the Radicalization of Youth: Preventing, Acting and Living Together.”
Participants at the fourth staging of the Caribbean Youth Leaders’ Summit in Belize were encouraged to help shape the framing of solutions for issues such as climate change, reproductive health rights and reparations for native genocide slavery. This charge was given to them by Programme Manager for Culture and Community Development at the CARICOM Secretariat Dr.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 12th, 2016 (PRESS SEC) – Thirty-five years ago this week, the Treaty of Basseterre was signed on June 18th, 1981, in the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis, establishing the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
Company registries within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) are set to go online this year. This development is due to an ongoing project funded by the 10th European Development Fund to create an online regional registry of companies. This will serve as a central repository of information on companies and other legal entities established in the CSME. This should address some challenges related to the Right of Establishment regime within the CSME.
In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados.
FLORIDA, United States, Tuesday October 20, 2015 – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) have signed off on the Sustainable Energy Facility, a US$71.5 million loan and grant package that will fund renewable energy and institutional capacity projects in six Eastern Caribbean countries.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 19, 2015 (SKNIS): Honourable Lindsay Grant, Minister of International Trade, Industry and Commerce and Consumer Affairs underscored the importance of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) regional integration initiative, noting that it is vital for CARICOM member states.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 07, 2015 (SKNIS): A strategic response to HIV/AIDS is necessary in order for St. Kitts and Nevis and the wider Caribbean to end AIDS by 2030.
In a bid to further provide practical support to regional governments who are seeking to implement Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is currently hosting the first of three PPP Boot Camps at its headquarters in Barbados.