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By mahtabala, 22 December, 2011

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), RT. HON. DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS 23 DECEMBER 2011       As outgoing Chairman of the Conference of He

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will mount a mission to observe elections in Jamaica on 29 December 2011.

The CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission will be led by Mr. Winston O’neale Estwick, Chief Elections Officer of Barbados, and will include representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and the CARICOM Secretariat.

The team will be in Jamaica from 26-31 December.

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By mahtabala, 17 December, 2011

SURINAMESE YOUTH PROGRAMME A REGIONAL BEST PRACTICE

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque deemed the Surinamese Youth programmes as a regional Best Practice.

On the second day of his official visit to Suriname, the Secretary-General was brought up to date on the activities and plans of Surinamese youth and was particularly impressed by the exciting programmes outlined to him by the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYA) at a meeting in Paramaribo on Tuesday 13 December.

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By mahtabala, 16 December, 2011

SG PRAISES SURINAMES CENTRAL ROLE IN COMMUNITY

 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) highlighted the central role of Suriname in the Community as he ended his official visit to that country.

By mahtabala, 14 December, 2011

PRESIDENT OF SURINAME WELCOMES SECRETARY-GENERAL

 
 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Incoming Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Desi Bouterse, President of Suriname welcomed CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on the first day of the Secretary-General’s two day official visit to Suriname on Monday.

By mahtabala, 14 December, 2011

CARICOM CHOLERA-RESPONSE PROJECT UNDERWAY IN HAITI

 
 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is executing a project to improve sanitation infrastructure and to sensitize residents of a Cite Soleil community in Haiti in the practice of safe personal and community hygiene.

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By mahtabala, 13 December, 2011

NCDS FIGHT MUST BE MORE DATA DRIVEN SAYS PAHO CARIBBEAN COORDINATOR

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Ernest Pate, PAHO Caribbean Programme Coordinator has asserted that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must be more data driven in the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

He also called upon CARICOM Heads of Government to “move” their commitment from principle to practice, noting that adequate resources were an imperative to fighting NCDs.

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By mahtabala, 10 December, 2011

CARICOM Second Annual Meeting on NCDs set for Trinidad and Tobago

 
  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) / IADB Regional surveillance project will hold its Second Meeting of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Focal Points and Chief Medical Officers in Trinidad and Tobago on 11- 13 December, 2011

This meeting is convened in the fifth year of the

By mahtabala, 9 December, 2011

Declaration of Port of Spain on the occasion of the Fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community

 
 
WE, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Republic of Cuba, meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 8 December 2011 on the occasion of the Fourth CARICOM-Cuba Summit;

Recalling the Declaration of Havana adopted on the occasion of the First Summit commemorating the historic establishment of diplomatic relations between the then independent Member States of the Caribbean Community and the Republic of Cuba and, subsequently, the Bridgetown and

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By mahtabala, 8 December, 2011

REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE OPENING OF THE FOURTH CARICOM-CUBA SUMMIT 2011 PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AN

​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Excellency, on behalf of the CARICOM Delegation, let me begin by saying that it is with great pleasure that we are meeting with you, today in our beautiful Member State, Trinidad and Tobago.

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