Press Releases

By mahtabala, 8 December, 2005

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A number of strategies geared to increase awareness, training and the capacity strengthening of several communities within one of Guyana’s remote regions have been mapped out by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) during their recent trip to the Iwokrama Conservation and Development Reserve.

By mahtabala, 7 December, 2005

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The widespread economic threat that Alien Invasive Species (IAS) pose to the Caribbean dictates coordination at national and regional levels to optimise the use of resources and technical expertise.

By mahtabala, 7 December, 2005

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A group of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors (CYA)are presently in Guyana working with their peers from across the Region to develop strategies to fight against HIV/AIDS. This they are doing while at the same time observing Guyana’s biodiversity, by journeying to the central part of the country for a three-day visit to the one million acreage Iwokrama Rainforest Conservation and Development reserve.

By mahtabala, 7 December, 2005
AMENDMENT OF TRIPS AGREEMENT WELCOMED BY CARIBBEAN CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – “The Caribbean welcomes the recent consensus agreement by WTO Members to amend the TRIPS Agreement and allow Members with insufficient or no pharmaceutical product manufacturing capacity the facility allowed other Members to address their public health needs through compulsory licensing of patented inventions.” This was the reaction of Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Ambassador Dr.
By mahtabala, 6 December, 2005
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission was mounted in response to an invitation by the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to send an Observer Team to monitor the conduct of the General Elections to be held on Wednesday, 07 December 2005.

The five-member Observer Mission comprises_