[CARICOM Conference Summit]
Regional leaders are keen to forge stronger links with Africa, and they will also take time to discuss their first CARICOM-African Union Summit to be held in June, as well as the 15th Meeting of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development.
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Barbados
BARBADOS TO HOST 31ST CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING
INDIA’S GOVERNMENT REAFFIRMS TIES WITH CARICOM CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES INCLUDING DONATING AID FOR BAHAMAS
[Caribbean News]
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque described India as “an important partner for the Caribbean Community.”
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OECS CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES ARE PROVIDING CRITICAL ASSISTANCE TO BAHAMAS IN WAKE OF HURRICANE DORIAN
[Hurricane Dorian]
OECS Director General Didacus Jules: “Dorian reminded us that our sisterhood is not just a common history and that our brotherhood bears the scars of the same vulnerabilities… Today is a role call of family, a call to give not as charity but as the obligation of family. Bahamas’ burden of pain is also our anguish, Bahamas’ loss is our impoverishment… And, sadly with the inevitability of climate change, tomorrow for any of the rest of us.”
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BARBADOS WILL ABOLISH IMMIGRATION CUSTOMS FORMS STARTING IN SEPTEMBER
[Caribbean News]
Barbados Minister of Home Affairs Edmund Hinkson: “We have eliminated the ED cards from September 1. Cabinet made that decision at last Thursdays’ meeting. We have 48 kiosks now; there were 16 and we got another 32 and they were installed last month and are working effectively.”
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