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Global testing standards goal set for next year Article by February 18, 2021 Export-oriented businesses in Barbados, Dominica and St Kitts and Nevis will be offered globally standardised testing at domestic laboratories as early as next year, says Daniel Best, Director of Project Department at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The CDB has partnered with the European Union (EU) and the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) to upgrade labs, train staff, and in the case of St Kitts and Nevis, develop a national quality policy, all in an effort to...

Competitiveness stressed as regional quality framework boosted Article by February 12, 2021 Using high tariff barriers and other practices to limit competition from imports into the region is a thing of the past, a CARICOM trade official has said, urging Caribbean economies to focus instead on building their firms’ capacity and become more competitive as they seek to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. This advice has come from Leo Preville, the CARICOM Single Market (CSME) programme manager at the CARICOM Secretariat, who said the launch of a second project under a stand...

CDB/CROSQ, Press Release February 10, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Export oriented businesses in Barbados, Dominica, and St Kitts and Nevis will be offered globally standardised testing at domestic laboratories as early as next year says Mr. Daniel Best, Director Projects Department at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The Bank has partnered with the European Union (EU) and the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) to upgrade labs, train staff, and, in the case of St Kitts and Nevis, develop a national quality policy; to ensure businesses can deliver globally ...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — St. Kitts and Nevis will be offered a Regional Quality Infrastructure Programme (RQIP) with globally standardised testing at domestic laboratories as early as next year, according to Daniel Best, Director Projects Department at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The program will also be offered to Barbados and Dominica. The RQIP will provide the Federation with a national quality policy to ensure businesses can deliver globally recognised goods and services required for trade. CDB has partnered with the European Union (EU) and the Cari...