Ahead of Tuesday’s CARICOM-UN High Level Pledging Conference at UN Headquarters in New York, a number of participants engaged in Technical Consultations on Monday. The Pledging Conference is seeking to mobilise support and commitment of pledges to help rebuild the countries ravaged by the recent hurricanes and importantly, to assist…...
Bolstering Resilience for Vulnerable Countries
Thursday, November 16, 2017 — In light of the devastation caused by the recent hurricanes, and the anticipation of more frequent events of a similar nature, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held an official COP23 Side Event on “Bolstering Resilience for Vulnerable Countries Facing…...
Building back better: The Caribbean’s wind of change
British billionaire Richard Branson called it a Marshall Plan for the Caribbean. Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne called it ”building on a sustainable basis in order to limit the impact” of future natural disaster. Whatever it’s going to be called, Caribbean leaders, planners and citizens are increasingly talking…...
