May 28, 2021 The Bahamas will boost resilient and inclusive growth to promote business continuity and competitiveness of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as well as their Blue Economy…
Category: INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
IDB Invest Supports Mercon to Strengthen Latin America’s Coffee Sector, Promoting Sustainability and Inclusion
May 28, 2021 IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, agreed to provide up to $50m worth of financing for Grupo Mercon, a deal that will support Latin American…
CARICOM congratulates Guyana on its 55th Independence Anniversary
May 28, 2021 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of Guyana on the country’s Fifty-fifth Anniversary of Independence. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque in a congratulatory…
Thought Leaders Gather for Forum on Central American Security & Economic Prosperity
May 25, 2021 The Institute of the Americas will convene a two half-day, virtual forum June 2-3, 2021 to examine Central America’s Northern Triangle region’s (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador)…
Stay in the loop with CARICOM
May 25, 2021 In this episode, Communications Officer at the CARICOM Secretariat, Mrs Tusankine English-Francis, presents a weekly news roundup of the latest from the Caribbean Community. Highlights: 0:01:05 WELL…
Panama to strengthen MSMEs sustainability amid the pandemic with IDB support
May 25, 2021 The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $150m loan to support the sustainability of Panama’s micro-, small- and mid-sized enterprises (MSMEs) amid the COVID-19 pandemic and…
OAS, Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica and Citi Foundation Train Students in Digital Security
May 25, 2021 The Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica (MICITT), the Cybersecurity Program of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organization of American States…
CARICOM Secretariat wraps up pilot project ‘Regional Integration and the CSME’, conducted via online classes exchanges between High School teachers in Belize and Guyana
May 25, 2021 The CARICOM Secretariat’s pilot project with High School teachers in Belize and Guyana teaching each other’s classes online finished on Thursday. Mr. Albert Inshanally of Queen’s College…
COMENTARY: Gender-based violence: an overlooked risk in development projects
By: María Amelia Viteri May 21, 2021 With the urge that building gender equality may convey, the social safeguard policies of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) encompass concrete actions to…
UWI Open Campus certify early childhood practitioners in e-learning pedagogy
May 21, 2021 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) now has a cohort of Early Childhood Educators with new skills to conduct online teaching of children between the ages of 3 to…
OAS and CAF Present the Publication “Sub-regional Diagnosis of Data from the Government Procurement and Contracting System”
May 21, 2021 The Organization of American States (OAS), in its role as technical secretariat of the Inter-American Government Procurement Network (RICG, for its acronym in Spanish), in alliance with…
REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS TO DISCUSS SCALING UP AND SUSTAINING THE REGIONAL HIV RESPONSE DURING COVID-19
May 21, 2021 The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, will convene…