GEORGETOWN—The European Union is providing Euro 8.6 million (One Euro =US$1.30 cents) to boost agriculture in the Caribbean. The funds are being provided under the tenth European Development Fund (EDF) Intra-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Agriculture Policy Programme for the Caribbean between the European Commission and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - IN this season of electioneering and politicking in the eastern Caribbean, at least two prime ministers have begun to mobilise supporters for likely polls within coming months.
That’s the current scenario in Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda amid growing speculation that Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas, may also feel compelled to move for a snap poll in the face of challenges facing his shaky Labour Party administration.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Pamela Clarke was a surprised woman when her mobile phone rang on March 14, two years ago, and police stationed at Grantley Adams International Airport were on the line.
Clarke told the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday she was even more surprised when police told her there was a woman named Shanique Myrie from Jamaica there saying she had arrived in Barbados and would be spending time with her.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Tuesday ruled that the statements of two people interviewed by a police officer as part of his investigations into allegations by a Jamaican national that she was assaulted by an immigration officer when she visited Barbados in 2011 cannot be used as evidence in the matter.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The immigration officer who interviewed Shanique Myrie when the Jamaican came to Barbados in 2011 became suspicious because the visitor was travelling here for the first time, and had also met the person who planned to host her on the Internet.
This was revealed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday by Grade 3 Immigration Officer Alicia Young, on the second day of testimony in Myrie’s discrimination suit against the Barbados Government.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will be pressing for a successful conclusion to the final negotiation session of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on an Arms Trade Treaty which began at the United Nations on Monday, according to a statement issued by the CARICOM Secretariat.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Haiti’s President and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, Michel Martelly arrives here on Wednesday for a two-day visit to the Secretariat of the regional integration grouping.
A CARICOM Secretariat statement said that Martelly will hold discussions with CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque and his executive management team on Thursday.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Haiti’s President Michel Martelly is due here on Friday for talks with his Surinamese counterpart, Desi Bouterse as the two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries seek to deepen bilateral relations between them, according to an official statement issued here.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – When high-level teams from the Caribbean Community and the United Nations Security Council visited Haiti in February last year to assess the post 2010 earthquake reconstruction efforts, one of the unanticipated issues that had to be taken account of was an outbreak of cholera which has resulted up to now in a total of about 8000 persons dead and over 600,000 suffering from the illness. The result has been a problem of dual priorities of almost equal importance to be faced by the UN itself, by Haiti, and by the wider Caribbean Community.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – One of the Caribbean’s longest serving head of government says he is ready to work with whichever leader the electorates in Grenada and Barbados select in general elections on Tuesday and Thursday respectively. “First of all, I make no comment about any of the elections. So, I am not agreeing with your thesis because I don’t want anybody to say that I am supporting,” Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the second longest serving government leader within the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, told reporters.