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Community Notice Interested persons are invited to apply for the following external employment opportunities at the Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretariat: Job Title: Specialist (Regular Fund)Organizational Unit: Executive Secretariat for Integral Development Job Title: Jr. Procurement Officer (ICR Fund)Organizational Unit: Department of Procurement Services and Management Oversight The deadline to apply for the Jr. Procurement Officer post is Monday, April 18, while the closing date for the Specialist is Monday, April 25. All applications must be done online via the OAS portal. For more information on the above mentioned employment opportunities, kindly visit External Employment Opportunities.

Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Caribbean region’s leading employers’ organization: the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation (CEC) and labour organization: the Caribbean Confederation of Labour (CCL) are taking a collaborative approach to develop joint regional policies and advocacy strategies for the eradication of violence against women and girls at the workplace level. The employer and labour bodies, supported by the UNFPA and ILO, hosted a Virtual Launch of the Joint Regional Effort under the Spotlight Initiative on Wednesday 6th April, 2022. Ms. Alison Drayton, Director, UNFPA Caribbean Sub-Regional Office in her Feature Address emphasized the importance of the effort, “This project will promote Gender Equality and…

6 April, Basseterre, Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis – Following two years of mandatory telecommuting due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the management and staff of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) began returning to their physical offices from4 April. During the period 20 March 2020 to 1 April 2022, approximately 80.0 per cent of the Bank’s staff worked from home. The Governor of the ECCB, Timothy N. J. Antoine says, “We did not envisage when we began this journey that we would be out for so long.” The Bank’s main objective for the mandatory telecommuting was to ensure the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 07, 2022 (SKNIS): The Department of Technology in St. Kitts and Nevis attained its first-ever information protection certification following the presentation of the ISO27001 Certificate during a brief but significant ceremony on Wednesday, April 06 at the National ICT Centre in Basseterre. “This certificate qualifies that the Department of Technology has a working framework consisting of a combination of policies and processes to protect its information through the adoption of a world-class international Information Security System,” said Cheryleann Pemberton, Permanent in the Ministry of Information Technology. “Notwithstanding, the certificate asserts that our Department of Technology sits on…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 7, 2022 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aviation): On April 1st, 2022, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Mark Brantley participated virtually in the second CARICOM-CANADA Foreign Ministers’ Group Meeting. The Meeting was co-chaired by the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, current Chair of the Council of CARICOM Foreign Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Ms. Melanie Joly. This meeting provided a unique opportunity for CARICOM Foreign Ministers to candidly exchange views with their Canadian counterpart on six (6) broad themes: Regional Security and Stability, Global Issues and Multilateral Cooperation,…

San Jose, 07 April 2022 (IICA). The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is supporting technical coordination actions and the prioritization of efforts undertaken by Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the United States to prevent, control and eradicate African swine fever (ASF), a disease that threatens the income and, in turn, the food security of millions of agricultural producers across the Americas. In fulfilment of a resolution by the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA, IICA’s highest governing body, comprised of the Ministers of Agriculture of the hemisphere), the Institute is hosting a tripartite meeting of the technical missions of these…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 7, 2022 (SKNIS): The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in its continued efforts to control the local dog population is encouraging its citizens and residents to license their dogs. Chief Veterinary Officer in the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Lesroy Henry, during an interview with SKNIS on March 25, stated that “It has been a tradition for us to have our dogs licensed because dogs are supposed to be a part of our family and we are always supposed to have a check on how many dogs you have in the country.” “Over the years this has slipped away…

San Jose, 6 April 2022 (IICA) – The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) will implement actions to strengthen the development and implementation of standards in this key sector of the food industry, enhance production capacities and generate greater recognition of the fundamental role played by the livestock sector in the agrifood systems of Latin America and the Caribbean. The organizations expanded a previous technical cooperation agreement to follow up on matters addressed at the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, such as the need to share science-based best practices to boost sustainable…

Washington D.C., 6 April (PAHO) – As cases of COVID-19 surge in Europe and East Asia due to Omicron BA.2, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne has urged countries to remain vigilant and urgently close vaccination gaps. While COVID cases and deaths have dropped across much of the region, countries have reported more than 620,000 new cases each week. And in parts of North America and the Caribbean, where Omicron is becoming the predominant variant, new infections are beginning to rise. With Omicron BA.2 already detected in 8.7% of sequences reported from South America, “time and time…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, April 06, 2022 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – In an attempt to fashion the way forward for the governing Team Unity Administration in St. Kitts and Nevis, the three leaders of the parties comprising the union, engaged in dialogue this morning, (6th April, 2022), at the Cabinet Room, Government Headquarters, in Basseterre.Prime Minister and Leader of the People’s Labour Party (PLP), Dr. The Hon. Timothy Harris, along with Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the People’s Action Movement (PAM), Hon. Shawn Richards, and Premier of Nevis, Hon. Mark Brantley, who also serves as…