The project covers 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries.

UNDP is also supporting recovery efforts in five Caribbean countries.

13. Supports the efforts of Caribbean countries to implement sustainable fisheries management programmes by strengthening the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism

10. Supports the efforts of Caribbean countries to implement sustainable fisheries management programmes by strengthening the recently established Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism

Countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean region

8. Supports the efforts of Caribbean countries to implement sustainable fisheries management programmes

Mohammed focused on the ways in which Caribbean countries are responding to Climate Change.

Countries from the Caribbean to southern Africa to the Pacific currently have substantial Indian populations.

Preparations for the replication of the project in five Eastern Caribbean countries are under way.

Eighteen Caribbean countries and 10,472 persons took part in the 2003 international coastal clean up.

The installation of EMPRETEC was being explored in some Andean, Caribbean and Middle Eastern countries.

The potential of information sharing has been recognized by many Latin American and Caribbean countries.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, social and economic inequality remain endemic in many countries.

Equally deserving of commendation is Venezuela's initiative in the Caribbean, called Petrocaribe, which will help Caribbean countries to respond to the challenges posed by the high price of oil.

Currently, several Latin American and Caribbean countries allow online census data processing via the Internet. ECLAC, together with CARICOM and UNFPA, continued supporting Caribbean countries in census data processing and provided technical support to initiate census evaluation and analysis.

Approved the subregional programme for the countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados.

Caribbean countries take seriously the responsibility of fostering the self determination and decolonization processes, especially in our neighbouring countries which are part and parcel of our Caribbean civilization, but which have not yet achieved a full measure of self government.

Merely waxing lyrical about the benefits of education will do nothing to help Latin American and Caribbean countries catch up with developed countries.

Sports As in other Caribbean countries of British colonial heritage, cricket is very popular on the island.

European countries have reported a stable level of coverage, while countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have reported a decrease (see figure III).

Some Latin American and Caribbean countries have gained considerable experience in developing innovative pension and provident fund schemes.

Reviewed the draft subregional programme document for the countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados

We support increased representation in that body for developing countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are already far advanced in the transition to low fertility.

And the Cotonou Agreement provides preferential market access to the European Union by African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

A regional centre was also established in Caracas (Venezuela) to provide support to Central American and Caribbean countries.

Last year many Caribbean countries were battered by hurricanes, and the Eastern Caribbean nation of Grenada was in the unfortunate situation of facing the onslaught of two major hurricanes in one calendar year.

Neighbouring countries were also affected, as were countries in the Caribbean and Central America, caught in the nexus between crime, corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking.

ACWW International Workshop on Leadership Skills Training, Colombia, November 2000, participants from 12 Caribbean, Central South American countries Canada, June 2001, participants from 12 developing countries.

Countries of the Caribbean held the Caribbean Ministerial Conference on Disability in 2004 with the aim of coordinating their regional approach to the Convention process, and to mainstream disability issues in national sectoral plans.

We support increased representation in that body for developing countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean must be represented there with permanent seats.

Caribbean countries reported their involvement in an ongoing study on the potential use of photovoltaic technology to produce electricity.

We have a common currency for eight of the eastern Caribbean countries, called the Windward and the Leeward Islands.

In recent years, countries from various regions other than Latin America and the Caribbean increased their participation in local resources.

Yet Latin American and Caribbean children gain fewer skills in each year of school than students do in high income countries and even in some other developing countries.

Many countries, including brotherly countries in Central America and the Caribbean, require immediate action to help finance the supply of fuel and the development of new fuel sources.

Anguilla is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, an associate member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Association of Caribbean States, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Caribbean Community and Common Market.

Merchandise needn t pass through the capital, as it does in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, with the associated cost increases.

Another interesting observation is that the Caribbean and Latin American countries emerged as an important host region for OFDI from Singapore.

Noting the efforts of the Caribbean countries, within the framework of the Association of Caribbean States, to develop further support for their concept of the Caribbean Sea as an area of special importance, in the context of sustainable development and in conformity with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,

and the Caribbean

Caribbean Development Bank

Caribbean Environment Programme

The Caribbean Community