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From May 15 – 17, 2013, youth ages 16 – 29 from across St. Lucia will gather at the Bay Gardens Inn to discuss the issue of road safety, with the aim of creating a Youth Declaration for Road Safety. The initiative is part of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Youth VYBZING Outreach Programme.

Today, Thursday, May 16, 2013, members of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) senior management team met with St. Lucian journalists to share details about the Bank’s 43rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors taking place on May 22 and 23, 2013 in St. Lucia. Mr. Volville Forsythe, Assistant Bank Secretary, CDB, outlined the scheduled ...

A new multipurpose centre has been officially inaugurated in the village of San Jose in the Orange Walk District, Belize. The project was implemented by the Belize Social Investment Fund and financed by the Government of Belize through a USD243,695 loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The San Jose multipurpose centre is a community-based ...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced the launch of a dedicated microsite, www.caribank.org/43rd-annual-meeting  for its 43rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors to be held May 22 -23, 2013 at Sandals Grande St. Lucian Spa & Beach Resort, St. Lucia. Assistant Bank Secretary, Mr. Volville Forsythe stated, “The Annual Meeting of the Board ...

From May 15 – 17, 2013, youth ages 16 – 29 from across St. Lucia will gather at the Bay Gardens Inn to discuss the issue of road safety, with the aim of creating a Youth Declaration for Road Safety. The initiative is part of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Youth VYBZING Outreach Programme.

Freeman’s Hall in Trelawny is the most recent of several schools in Jamaica to receive upgraded facilities through funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Community Investment Programme (CIP). Under the project, renovations were conducted on the existing school buildings including the division of classrooms, installation of new ...

The need for dialogue on the role of the private sector in building a resilient Caribbean Region has been described as critical by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Vice President (Operations), Dr. Carla Barnett. Dr. Barnett made the remarks at the inaugural Compete Caribbean Regional Consultative Forum (RCF) and Strategic Regional Dialogue on Private Sector ...

The newly elected Prime Minister of Grenada,  Dr. The Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell, paid a visit to the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on April 10, 2013 and had the opportunity to meet with the President, Dr. Wm. Warren Smith and other members of senior management.  The Prime Minister outlined some of the critical challenges facing ...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is facilitating the training of 13 service industry workers from Haiti in Barbados from April 15 to May 3, 2013, as part of the Bank’s continued support to private sector development in Haiti. The participants in this training initiative are employees of six leading hotels in Haiti who will be ...