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Exploring Export Potential of Vital Sectors Could Be the Key to Caribbean’s Recovery
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- on Aug, 10, 2021
- Category11th EDF EPA TBT Programme, Cooperation
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If there’s one thing the last two years have taught us as a region, it’s how vulnerable we are to shocks. But it’s also shown us how much we need productive sectors to help bounce back from the toll these shocks, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, can take on our economies. This is why […]
Read MoreRegional Private Sector Sure to Benefit from Certification
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- on Aug, 10, 2021
- Category11th EDF EPA TBT Programme
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The region’s private sector will be one of the major beneficiaries of interventions by the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Component of the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Programme. Among activities currently underway is the certification of five private sector firms – one each in Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Montserrat and St […]
Read MoreRegional Cooperation Vital for INDOCAL
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- on Aug, 10, 2021
- Category11th EDF EPA TBT Programme, National Quality Infrastructure
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Submitted by the Instituto Dominicano para la Calidad (INDOCAL) “Unity is strength. When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved”. Mattie Stepanek Santo Domingo, D.N. Regional cooperation is of vital importance to boost technical and financial support for both public and private policies in a nation. The unity of efforts between national […]
Read MoreA Little About Accreditation and How it Works
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- on Apr, 29, 2021
- CategoryDemand for Quality, Quality Management Systems
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There are a dozen technical ways to explain what accreditation is and how it works, but often it leaps over the head of the layman who may have only heard the term in passing. So, we’re going to attempt to break it down into bite sized pieces so it’s more easily understood. As CROSQ’s mandate […]
Read MoreThe Evolution of Quality
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- on Apr, 29, 2021
- Category11th EDF EPA TBT Programme, Demand for Quality, Quality Management Systems
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“I have learnt that systems work to mitigate any huge shocks in the system. And it is because of that [I have] so much more confidence in systems. I go out and I preach systems but I can tell you the systems have caused us to rebound much faster and I’m telling you I am so surprised right now how quickly we have rebounded because we have that sort of planning, future planning in place. I can say now . . . if we continue the way we are continuing now, we will exceed our best year which was in 2019.” (Sheryl Anderson, QSSI Managing Director on the importance of quality systems.)
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