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First INGSA Capacity Building Workshop in the Caribbean
From ICSU This past 20th and 21st of February, Kingston, Jamaica was the host for the first INGSA Capacity Building Workshop in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica was the chosen location to hold the first Caribbean INGSA Capacity Building Workshop, which…
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Women empowered through export – launch
Caribbean Export launch WE-XPORT, Supporting Caribbean Women in Business Bridgetown, BARBADOS, March 7, 2018. Caribbean Export is now taking applications from Caribbean women-owned businesses to participate in their newest programme: Women Empowered through Export or WE-Xport. At the Hilton Barbados…
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Emergency Notification System to become a reality in the Cayman Islands
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS; 5 March 2018 OfReg, and the Department of Hazard Management have joined forces to structure a plan for an effective emergency notification system (ENS) for the Cayman Islands. A discussion paper has been issued by OfReg…
Cayman Islands Off the Beaten Track runners conquer most difficult course to date
The participants of the 9th annual Off the Beaten Track 50 kilometer ultramarathon and relay took on and conquered the toughest course to date on Sunday February 28 2018. This year’s race started at Tiki Beach and finished at Smith…
Cayman Islands: Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. launches innovation unit
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLRE) (“Greenlight Re” or the “Company”), a specialist property and casualty reinsurance company headquartered in the Cayman Islands, today announced the launch of Greenlight Re Innovations,…
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Environmental agreement to Latin America and the Caribbean
From Radio Cadena Agramonte Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador highlighted the agreement just signed in Costa Rica for Latin America and the Caribbean in environmental matters. In its digital page and Twitter account, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and…
European diplomat says Caribbean women still yet to shatter glass ceiling
From Jamaica Observer BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)— A senior European Union diplomat says while women in the Caribbean have made “outstanding strides” in recent years, they, like their European counterparts are still yet to completely shatter the glass ceiling. In a…
CDB and FAO strengthen partnership with new agreement
March 6, 2018, Montego Bay, Jamaica – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Monday signed an agreement to strengthen their partnership to help countries in the Region achieve key…
This one picture sums up climate change’s growing role in coastal flooding
BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Boston is bearing the brunt of its second major nor’easter in two months, and it’s a beast of a storm. The city experienced its third-highest storm tide on record on Friday morning at 14.67 feet. On Friday…
Obama made one of history’s greatest stock market calls 9 years ago
By Akin Oyedele From Business Insider The stock market fell to its lowest level of the recession nine years ago on March 6, 2009. Days earlier, Obama said, “What you’re now seeing is profit-and-earnings ratios are starting to get to…
