Antigua and Barbuda
20 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 April 2012: The Caribbean Marine Protected Areas Management Network and Forum (CaMPAM) has announced the launch of a project aimed at supporting learning exchanges among marine protected areas (MPA) staff and fishers from the Dominican Republic, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Cuba, and Antigua and Barbuda, as well as other Caribbean countries.
According to CaMPAM, the learning exchanges, set to take place throughout April and May, aim to use manager exchanges as a tool for...
11 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2012: The 14th issue of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean’s (RAC/REMPEITC) quarterly newsletter, titled ”Caribe,” highlights three workshops held in the region to help countries meet their obligations under the 1990 International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response, and Cooperation (OPRC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The first workshop, funded by IMO and the International...
02 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 March 2012: The Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) and the European Commission (EC) signed three financial agreements totaling €82.6 million (about US$110 million) to promote Caribbean integration and aid in the realization of CARIFORUM’s implementation commitments under the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
The first agreement, worth €8.6 million, will be implemented by the Secretariat of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS...
22 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 March 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released its first Caribbean Human Development Report, titled “Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security,” which covers Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
According to the report, 12 of the 20 most violent countries in the world are in Latin America and the Caribbean. UNDP underscores that crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and...
12 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 March 2012: The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has reported that it will administer a US$20 million Community Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Fund, which is to be established for Caribbean countries with funds from Canada. The Fund is intended to help Caribbean countries reduce risks, at the community level, posed to vulnerable populations by natural hazards and climate change.
The Fund will assist Bank member countries, except Haiti, to implement sub-projects to reduce natural hazard risks...
