Actualités dans la Caraïbe

18 Novembre
The World Bank
New Report Examines Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century
The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting...
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17 Novembre
Trinidad Express
ACS to discuss disaster risk management
A three-day meeting aimed at exploring and increasing the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) capacity for strategic planning in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) process begins in Port of Spain on Tuesday.
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16 Novembre
ECLAC
New SME Policies Needed to Boost Latin America's Growth
After nearly a decade of continuous expansion, GDP growth in Latin America will slow from 4.4% in 2011 to 3.2% in 2012 and 4.0% in 2013. The outlook remains relatively positive, but is exposed to global uncertainty and volatility. Latin American governments must act now to...
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15 Novembre
La Prensa Gráfica
Realizan foro de tecnología en turismo
El Ministerio de Economía (MINEC), el Ministerio de Turismo (MITUR) y la Corporación Salvadoreña de Turismo (CORSATUR) realizaron ayer el primer Foro Tecnológico de Turismo 2012, en el que empresarios se dieron cita para conocer las últimas tecnologías.
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04 Octobre
Trinidad Guardian
ACS  maps out routes for regional trade
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) is implementing projects in the maritime and air transport areas to increase trade opportunities and connectivity in the region, says Alfonso Múnera, Secretary General, Association of Caribbean States (ACS). “We, at the ACS, are trying...
01 Octobre
United Nations
H.E. Ms. Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
Statement Summary: MAXINE MCCLEAN, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, said that despite being a small island developing State vulnerable to the global crises, her country had retained its stability and made great gains in its standard of living...
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01 Octobre
United Nations
H.E. Mr. Wilfred Elrington, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Statement Summary: WILFRED D. ELRINGTON, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belize, said the theme for the sixty-seventh session was most timely and fitting because although his country had gained independence in 1981, after 100 years of colonial rule by the United Kingdom, its...
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01 Octobre
United Nations
H.E. Mr. Vince Henderson, Permanent Representative to the UN
Statement Summary: VINCE HENDERSON ( Dominica) said the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development was a commendable effort by the international community to take stock of the human impact on the earth’s resources and to commit to reversing present trends.
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01 Octobre
United Nations
H.E. Ms. Dessima Williams, Permanent Representative to the UN
Statement Summary: DESSIMA WILLIAMS ( Grenada) said her country’s ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in the past year had triggered the instrument’s entry into force.
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01 Octobre
United Nations
H.E. Mr. Winston G. Lackin, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Statement Summary: WINSTON G. LACKIN, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Suriname, said a combination of prudent fiscal policies and windfall earnings from trading crude oil, derivatives and gold had created a stable political and economic environment in his country. That...
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