(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders in the field of renewable energy and sustainable development are meeting in Barbados from Wednesday 9 May to explore and exchange ideas on how solar energy and solar thermal systems could be utilised more efficiently in the Region.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) foreign policy coordination in a constantly changing international climate was the common thread running through the addresses at the Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) in Paramaribo, Suriname, Thursday 3 May 2012.
(Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The region’s sustainable development rests heavily on its human capital. This is the consensus of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers and other officials at the 39th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment and Sustainable Development.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 39th Special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), slated for Georgetown, Guyana on Friday, will provide the last ministerial platform for environment and sustainable development ministers to frame a regional strategic approach for the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than 120 representatives of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), including one Head of Government and several ministers, will meet for the Partnership’s Eleventh Annual General Meeting on 18 November 2011, in The Bahamas. The venue of the meeting is the British Colonial Hilton, Nassau.
The island's Minister for Sustainable Development, Hon. Dr. James Fletcher will chair the high-level meeting.
The Government of Saint Lucia, on Thursday 19th June 2014, will host the first meeting of a High-Level CARICOM Task Force on Sustainable Development in the Conference Room of the Ministry of the Public Service, Information and Broadcasting.
Saint Lucia’s Minister for Public Service, Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology, Hon. James Fletcher, has been chosen by the CARICOM Secretariat to chair this high-level Regional Task Force.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “The world’s pledged generosity to Haiti has little value until and unless it translates into improved conditions for the people of that country.”
This is the view of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Acting Secretary-General as she received, on Thursday, Letters of Credence from the Plenipotentiary Representative of Italy to CARICOM, His Excellency Paolo Serpi, at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Special Representative of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government on Haiti, the Most Honourable Percival Patterson, on Wednesday, impressed upon the United Nations Security Council the need to expand the focus of the its stabilisation mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH to giving greater support to the reconstruction program of that earthquake ravaged country.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Investments and Capital Markets Conference in Jamaica on Wednesday was visionary and timely as participants had the opportunity to infuse new impetus into the 1989 Grande Anse decision to create a Regional Capital Market, the Most Hon. Percival J. Patterson, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Special Representative to Haiti said.
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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. |