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UNESCO’S Institute for Statistics just concluded a regional training workshop on the 2009 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics (FCS)    The Workshop took place in Kingston, Jamaica from December 1st – 4th, with delegates from Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts –Nevis, Suriname, […]

ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, Thirty persons, including fifteen Customs Officials and representatives from key institutions, are currently participating in a Valuation Training Workshop on the General Agreements on Tariff and Trade (GAAT) at the Grenada National Stadium.

Former Minister for Finance and former Prime Minister of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell says Opposition members are still greatly disturbed over the taxation policy of the NDC Government.

St. George’s, December 9, 2009 – The National Lottery Authority (NLA), which has installed new technology to help improve its gaming system, has said that there is also a feature to assist Grenadian farmers.

The Ministry is concerned that despite the many official notices and substantial public discussion and debate on the issue of persons holding diplomatic passports, that Marietha Dian Mitchell, the wife of Opposition Leader, Dr. Keith Mitchell, has failed to surrender the diplomatic passport issued to her by the previous administration. […]

Please visit our new discussion forum St. George’s, December 7, 2009 (GIS) – The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has launched a new online lottery system as part of what is being called the “rebranding’’ of the authority.

St. George’s, December 7, 2009 – Government ministers, Peter David and Patrick Simmons, have praised the initiative that now allows access to a bank of computers and recreational space for residents of the Carenage, St. George’s.

Please visit our new discussion forum BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 5, 2009 – Just days before the start of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Grenada’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union, H.E. Stephen Fletcher, called […]

St. George’s, December 3, 2009 (GIS) – Finance Minister Hon. Nazim Burke has described a draft report on poverty assessment in Grenada as “quite disturbing.’’

St. George’s, December 4, 2009 – Normally there is nothing earth-shaking about a calf being born in Grenada. But Deacon Jr. is not just any calf.

St. George’s, December 4, 2009 – Supporters of the National Democratic Congress living in Toronto are making a contribution to the attempts of the Grenada Government to strengthen the nation’s food security mechanism. They are piloting a programme for the promulgation of various vegetable plants in the parish of St. […]

  St. George’s, December 3, 2009 (GIS) – Grenada will be looking to this month’s climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, to seek support for certain specific local projects.

St. George’s, December 3, 2009 (GIS) – Prime Minister Hon. Tillman Thomas has reaffirmed a pledge of his government and party to decentralise services and develop all parts of the nation, including St. Patrick.

MONTREAL, Canada, December 3, 2009 – Grenada’s Honorary Consul in Montreal, Mr. Leonard Wharwood has embarked on a media blitz in promoting Grenada as the best vacation destination in the Caribbean, and to assure investors that Grenada is open to investments from abroad.