(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Ā Ā Ā Ā The 39th SpecialĀ meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED),Ā slated for Georgetown, Guyana on Friday, will provide the last ministerial platform for environment and sustainable development ministers to frame a regional strategic approach for the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Twelve Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be participating in the Sixth Summit of the Americas on 14-15 April 2012 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Two other Member States, Belize and The Bahamas will be represented by their Deputy Prime Ministers. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will also be attending the Summit on the invitation of the host, His Excellency President Juan Manuel Santos.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) A team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat met with a Mission from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Thursday (12 April) to explore priority areas of cooperation and funding for regional development and to initiate dialogue toward shaping a strategy for future interventions in the Caribbean region.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) āSexual and reproductive Health and HIV services provided to most at-risk populations across the Region is not nationally led or driven and governments appear to have no clear strategy for responding to the needs of this populationā. This is the finding of one of two studies recently commissioned by the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) to ascertain the quantity and quality of available gender specific HIV services for key populations in the Region.
These guidelines have been prepared to help integrate and mainstream the concerns and issues related to older persons into disaster risk management programmes and processes. They outline difficulties faced by older persons in disasters and present actions that should be considered and implemented at different operational levels, from the national policy level through sub-national, facility and individual levels.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Staff of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat came in for high praise from Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government, His Excellency DesirƩ Delano Bouterse, President of the Republic of Suriname, who visited the Georgetown-based Secretariat on Tuesday.
President Bouterse, who chairs the Community from January to June, held discussions with Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General, and later interacted with staff members of the Secretariat.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Immigration officers within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have begun training sessions aimed at improving the treatment of nationals at ports of entry in the Region.
Ministers of Trade of CARICOM were apprised of the development at the 34th meeting the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) which concluded Friday in Georgetown, Guyana.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat-based Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit on 2 April published the first Issue for 2012 of its flagship newsletter, EPA Implementation Bulletin. It is a Special Issue that brings together the perspectives of a cross-section of organizations that have a stake in the development of Coalitions of Service Industries in the Region, with a view to pointing to their critical coordinating role in positioning their stakeholders to harness agreements like the EPA.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community and the United States are pleased to release the following Joint Statement, which outlines the overall results of the March 31, 2012 meeting of the Trade and Investment Council (TIC) in Georgetown, Guyana.