Organized by the UNESCO Office in Brasilia, the Regional Office of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO Santiago) and the Secretariat of Distance Education of the Ministry of Education of Brazil, the international conference "The impact of ICT education, analyzed and discussed the training of teachers in information technology and communications (ICT), and evaluated the impact of ICT on the quality of education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “Failure was not an option”, for Haiti’s reconstruction efforts. That was the charge given to the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC) by Special Representative of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government to Haiti, former Jamaican Prime Minister, Most Honourable P.J. Patterson as it convened its first meeting in the Dominican Republic on June 2, in the margins of the World Summit for the Future of Haiti.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Region braces for the 2010 hurricane season, expected to be “extremely active”, the urgency of moving the reconstruction process forward in Haiti has intensified.
Some 80 international delegations met at the resort of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic on 2 June for the World Summit on the Future of Haiti, to recommit to the country’s recovery and reconstruction, following the catastrophic earthquake of 12 January.
The Study on Agrotourism Policy forms part of the Strategic Plan for Regional Development (SPRD) for the Caribbean Community that will give strategic focus to the achievement of Community goals and objectives in keeping with the Single Development Vision. The Plan will a ddress (i) self -sustaining economic growth; (ii) a full - employment economy; and (iii) spatially equitable economic growth within the Community as stated in the Single Development Vision that was approved by the Conference of Heads of Government in July 2007.
Thank you, Assistant Secretary [Arturo] Valenzuela. And thank you all for being part of this critical, and historic, discussion. A little more than a year has passed since President Obama called for a "new chapter of engagement" between the United States and our friends in the Caribbean.
I have the honour, as well as the decidedly difficult task, to speak on a subject which has already been comprehensively addressed by the preceding speaker, the Honourable Attorney General of the United States of America.
We in the Caribbean deeply appreciate the commitment made by President Obama during the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago in April 2009 to support a joint United States Caribbean partnership that addresses the various security and safety concerns of our respective governments and citizens.
I have the honour, as well as the decidedly difficult task, to speak on a subject which has already been comprehensively addressed by the preceding speaker, the Honourable Attorney General of the United States of America.
We in the Caribbean deeply appreciate the commitment made by President Obama during the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago in April 2009 to support a joint United States Caribbean partnership that addresses the various security and safety concerns of our respective governments and citizens.
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If European and US recovery from the global economic and financial crisis can be described as sluggish, characterised by jobless growth and dependent on stimulus packages, imagine what is the situation in CARIFORUM, particularly in the smaller countries of the OECS.
The Caribbean with its open economies is one of the regions most adversely affected by the crisis. |