by Ms. Donna Sealy (contributor) Guyana is gearing up for its fourth National Quality Awards (NQA) slated for October this year. The awards, first held in 2017, are open to micro, small, and large enterprises and will see them being recognised in categories such as health and safety, environmental initiatives,...
Quality Promotions Officers Meet in Guyana
Joint Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)/CROSQ Release The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently hosted twenty-five (25) marketing and communications representatives from Bureaus of Standards across the 16 CARIFORUM Member States for a three-day meeting at its Sophia, Greater Georgetown location. The participants were members of the CARICOM...
CARICOM Businesses Demanding Accreditation
Businesses in the Caribbean region now have easier and more affordable access to accreditation services in part due to the hard work of the Caribbean Cooperation for Accreditation Committee, a technical committee of the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ). So said Acting Director of the Barbados National...
CROSQ & CARPHA Join Forces on Health, Safety, Environmental Tourism Standards
Caribbean-wide Health, Safety and Environmental Sanitation Hospitality Standards: Agreement between CARPHA and CROSQ Signed In today’s Caribbean, the tourism operating environment, visitor health and safety, destination and services quality, with tangible links to community development, have emerged as hallmarks for a viable, sustainable and reputable tourism product. The health, safety...
CROSQ Makes Quality Links Across Africa and the Pacific
New avenues for expanding intra-African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) trade are being explored, using quality as the basis for strengthening partnerships with CARICOM Member States. This development comes with the launch of a second component of a joint TradeCom II Programme/ CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) initiative,...