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As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework comes to a close in 2015, the Caribbean Region is advocating for a comprehensive and transformative Post 2015 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) development agenda. The goal of advocacy efforts will be to ensure that Caribbean specific priorities for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment are advanced. The emerging global development frameworks must address the structural foundations of gender-based inequality, including the recognition that inequalities are a consequence of the unequal relations of power.

The Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government, Trinidad and Tobago, July 2013, ‘agreed to devote a Special Session of the Twenty-Fifth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference, in March 2014, to addressing issues related to Human Resource Development (HRD)’.  The Cluster of CARICOM Regional Institutions responsible for Human Resource Development was charged with preparing the submission for the Inter-Sessional Meeting and has worked in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat in preparation of the Document.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point for the new sustainable development agenda to be adopted this year, according to the final MDG report launched today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging shortfalls that remain.

Research results from the neotropics showed a high positive correlation between plant population densities and yields of marketable berries in hot pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.). Densities were compared on a Piarco Series soil (Ultisols of the Aquoxic Tropudults sub-group) during 2011 in central Trinidad on cv. Moruga Red to determine the density that will produce the highest yields of berries, mean berry weights and mean plant developmental traits. The 16 different densities ranged from 60 x 30 cm to 150 x 120 cm.

The Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) 2014-2018 - the successor to the CRSF 2008-2012 - provides strategic direction and programmatic orientation for the members of PANCAP in their pursuit of universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services by 2018.

In follow-up to the launch of the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative (CESI) in June 2014, the Vice President, Secretary of Energy Moniz, other senior Administration officials, Caribbean Heads of Government, multilateral development banks, and other international partners participated in the Caribbean Energy Security Summit January 26 in Washington, D.C. to work together in support of Caribbean energy security.

This report analyses the state of the energy sector and energy policy in seven small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities in the countries. The report provides an overview of the status and recent developments in the seven SIDS, followed by more detailed individual reviews of the state of their energy sector and energy plans, projects and policies.

This paper seeks to examine the Caribbean shipping industry from three perspectives_

1. Efficiency and adequacy of the maritime transport service and infrastructure  

2. Opportunities for employment for Caribbean nationals

3. State of environmental machinery to protect the Caribbean Sea Basin.