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Customs and Trade Facilitation training in St. Kitts

On 19 April last took place in Basseterre (St. Kitts and Nevis) a training course on Customs and Trade Facilitation. The course was targeted at Customs, other trade regulatory agencies and the private sector on customs and trade facilitation measures. Enhanced knowledge on these matters is considered vital in the [...]
Five-day Training Workshop on Public Procurement, Barbados

Between the 18th and 22nd of April 2016, twenty-one participants from the OECS and Barbados attended a training workshop on Procurement held at the CSME Secretariat building in Bridgetown (Barbados). Attendees included a mixture of senior policy officials, a number of whom are on the Regional Task Force on Government [...]
Training in Competition for representatives of Government Ministries – Suriname

On 13th April 2016, was celebrated in Paramaribo (Suriname), a Training in Competition for representatives of Government Ministries. Most attendees were from the Ministry of Trade and Industry while other participants included representatives from the telecommunication sector regulator, consumer non-Government agencies, the national oil company, the Bureau of Standards, the Association [...]
Destination Europe 2016

To increase the visibility and knowledge about the EU in Indonesia and ASEAN Countries, the EU-PDO organises a wide variety of activities and events. Undoubtedly, the most important event of all is Destination Europe, an innovative and unique fair that combines the travel and culture specialities of each one of [...]
OECS Officials Receive Competition Training – Antigua

Participants from every OECS country, consisting of officials from the relevant Ministries, some of whom were senior Trade and Consumer Affairs officials, and also, lawyers attended a two-day workshop on Competition presented by Professor Frederick Jenny, Tina Kondo and Desroy Reid. In the first of the workshop’s well-presented and received [...]
Capacity Building Training Seminar on Competition Law and Policy – Guyana

On 17th March 2016, seventy persons attended a capacity building workshop on Competition Law at the Arthur Chung Convention Center at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. Attendees included representatives of the Public Utilities Commission, the Private Sector Commission, the Guyana Revenue Authority and several other organizations for which issues related to [...]