A major event aimed at developing a business approach for the agri-food sector in Caribbean and other small island states (SIDS) in African Caribbean and Pacific regions (ACP) commenced in Bridgetown.…
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November 4th, 2015 •
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The KFC franchise in Barbados will launch a new, community focused initiative this month. Starting Monday, October 12, 2015 KFC will introduce, “Add Hope” to the Barbadian community –…
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October 12th, 2015 •
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Five top baristas find themselves pushing the limits of coffee perfection to win the National Barista Championship – a surreal competition where even one mistake is far too many. Once a year, th…
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October 1st, 2015 •
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management has advised that the current sea egg closed season will end on Wednesday, September 30. The licence to harvest sea eggs will …
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September 23rd, 2015 •
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According to studies conducted by fisheries experts, there is scope to almost double fishing efforts and increase production from some shrimp and groundfish stocks in the Brazil-Guianas shelf in comin…
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September 19th, 2015 •
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The third ServSafe Food Safety Training and Certification Workshop facilitated by the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Technical Cooperation Division, through its programme, the Caribbean Tech…
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September 18th, 2015 •
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Reducing food loss and wastage is critical to improving global food security. Yet, thousands of dollars in food are wasted every year in the Caribbean due to poor practices or inadequate facilities fo…
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September 16th, 2015 •
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Chef Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) had it all – and lost it. A two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything differen…
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September 10th, 2015 •
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“Getting local agricultural and environmental groups on the same page“. This is the motivation behind the launch of the inaugural Green Summit to be held this week at Foursqaure Rum Distil…
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September 1st, 2015 •
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The rigidity of individual maritime codes and a lack of unity within the fishing industry of the Caribbean is stifling its growth. In addition, if fishing was more cohesive, then there’d be less…
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August 25th, 2015 •
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The Caribbean region’s ability to cash in on a potentially lucrative, international export trade in fish and seafood is being held back by huge gaps in measures to protect food safety and animal…
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August 18th, 2015 •
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Thor as Mead flavoured; Iron Man as Bacon & Bourbon; Hulk as Chocolate Pistachio and Captain America as multi-coloured cherry vanilla and blueberry flavoured? Try it out at Coconut Baby’s ta…
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August 16th, 2015 •
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Nestled unobtrusively in the heart of Belleplaine, St. Andrew at the back of a quaint Barbadian home lies an example of what happens when agriculture, renewable energy and technology come together to …
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August 8th, 2015 •
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Seatonia Blackman knows well the meaning of the proverb, Every cloud has a silver lining. The 26-year old youth agri-preneur had started her bachelor’s degree in Agriculture at the University of…
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August 5th, 2015 •
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is playing an active role by ensuring stiff productivity with livestock development in the Caribbean through the provision of practi…
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August 3rd, 2015 •
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Addressing the food import bill, creating new jobs in the food and agricultural sector and improving nutrition and health through appropriate public policy for the cassava industry were promoted at th…
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July 8th, 2015 •
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Trinidad and Tobago’s participation in the 61st Summer Fancy Food Show kicked off over the weekend at the Jacob Javits Centre, New York, USA. The Show runs for three days. The more than 40,000…
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July 4th, 2015 •
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Both the Hilda Skeene and Ellerton Primary Schools recently received some important visitors… The United Nations Development Project or UNDP funded an initiative with US$150,000 towards buildin…
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June 22nd, 2015 •
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An innovative new programme for young people to learn about the business of agriculture and contribute to the economic development of the country has been launched. The Youth Agri-preneurship Incubato…
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June 12th, 2015 •
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Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has made a huge step towards the total eradication of hunger by reducing both the percentage and total number of undernourished people to less than half, accordin…
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June 4th, 2015 •
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The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has pumped an additional $469,000 USD into the region’s specialty food sector via a Supplemental Grant to the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean …
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May 31st, 2015 •
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The Nature Valley association of Colombier will coordinate the “how to do” workshop on arrowroot at the 13th annual St. Martin Book Fair, June 4 – 6, 2015, said Shujah Reiph, book fa…
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May 27th, 2015 •
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Fifty school children gave cassava buns a ‘thumbs up‘ during a tour of the facilities of the Barbados Agricultural Development Marketing Corporation (BADMC), which took place on Friday 22 …
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May 23rd, 2015 •
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St Kitts’ Sugar Workers’ Restoration Fund (SWRF) office began Monday 18th May to process claims and guarantee the outstanding gratuity payment to former sugar workers. The office will be l…
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May 21st, 2015 •
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Once again the highly selective and notoriously hard to please judges at the Chelsea Flower Show have bestowed a Gold Medal on the ever creative and industrious team of the Barbados Horticultural Soci…
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May 19th, 2015 •
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