[Caribbean News\Intraregional Trade]
OECS Dr. Didacus Jules: “None of the OECS Member States by themselves can meet their own or the region’s food security needs. What we should lament is our continued dependence on the importation of substandard meat and poultry from extra-regional sources that cost our governments millions of US dollars…Increasing intra-OECS trade is not a one-sided matter. We are building partnerships so that Member States can focus on areas of comparative advantage to build a dynamic, sustainable internal market of healthy organic food.”
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Canada
OECS: INTRAREGIONAL TRADE INTEGRATION VITALLY IMPORTANT TO CARIBBEAN GROWTH
U.N. DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL ON CLIMATE CRISIS: “WE HAVE NO TIME LEFT TO LOSE”
[Climate Change]
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on climate crisis: “The way in which we manage the world’s lands is central to combating climate change. And restoring the capacity of the land that feeds, houses and sustains us is core to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.”
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INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYERS ORGANIZATION: “NO-DEAL BREXIT” WOULD LEAD TO ECONOMIC CHAOS AND RACIAL STRIFE
[European News]
FedEE Secretary-General Robin Chater: “Many people ask me how will it be possible to recognize on the ground that a No-Deal Brexit is affecting not only the economy but UK society in general? In fact, it is already happening and the isolationism that comes as a consequence of such a savage rupture from the European continent will just speed up current trends…At a more fundamental level, it will be seen in a greater incidence of violent crime (now very evident in the sharp rise of knife crime), more frequent incidents of racial abuse…”
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