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  • India offers support of $1 million to small, medium projects in Caribbean: Jaishankar

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: India can extend support of up to $1 million for medium and small projects in the Caribbean, said External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar in Georgetown, Guyana, on Saturday.

    “We are open to supporting small and medium scale projects of upto $1 million. My PM is very clear that we are there not just for ourselves but also for the countries who are not on the G20 table,’’ Dr Jaishankar said while co-chairing the fourth India-Caricom (15-member Caribbean Community) ministerial meeting.

    He emphasised that the focus would be on energy, particularly renewable energy, and said it was their “collective interest”, adding that India cared for the voice of the Global South.

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    “Today, I’d like to put forward for your collective consideration a proposal in the field of small & medium scale enterprises. We would be open to supporting on a grant basis, individual projects of up to a value of a million dollars and we would solicit proposals from you,” he added.

    India would like to create a partner group and see whether it can help in supporting viable project offers from the Caribbean through the supply of machinery, technology and training.

    On the sidelines of the summit, Jaishankar met his counterparts from Suriname Albert Ramdin, Dr. Denzil Douglas from St. Kitts and Nevis, Joseph Andall from Grenada, Barbados foreign minister Kerrie Symmonds, Kamina Johnson Smith from Jamaica, Dr. Amery Browne from Trinidad and Tobago and Keisal Peters from St. Vincent and Grenadines. Among the other dignitaries, he met Bahamas Parliamentary Secretary Jamahl Strachen.

    NEW DELHI: India can extend support of up to $1 million for medium and small projects in the Caribbean, said External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar in Georgetown, Guyana, on Saturday.

    “We are open to supporting small and medium scale projects of upto $1 million. My PM is very clear that we are there not just for ourselves but also for the countries who are not on the G20 table,’’ Dr Jaishankar said while co-chairing the fourth India-Caricom (15-member Caribbean Community) ministerial meeting.

    He emphasised that the focus would be on energy, particularly renewable energy, and said it was their “collective interest”, adding that India cared for the voice of the Global South.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

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    “Today, I’d like to put forward for your collective consideration a proposal in the field of small & medium scale enterprises. We would be open to supporting on a grant basis, individual projects of up to a value of a million dollars and we would solicit proposals from you,” he added.

    India would like to create a partner group and see whether it can help in supporting viable project offers from the Caribbean through the supply of machinery, technology and training.

    On the sidelines of the summit, Jaishankar met his counterparts from Suriname Albert Ramdin, Dr. Denzil Douglas from St. Kitts and Nevis, Joseph Andall from Grenada, Barbados foreign minister Kerrie Symmonds, Kamina Johnson Smith from Jamaica, Dr. Amery Browne from Trinidad and Tobago and Keisal Peters from St. Vincent and Grenadines. Among the other dignitaries, he met Bahamas Parliamentary Secretary Jamahl Strachen.

  • Devon Conway roped in as injury cover for Hamilton Test

    New Zealand have called up Devon Conway as an injury cover for regular wicketkeeper-batsman BJ Watling, who has picked up a hamstring niggle just ahead of the two-match Test series opener against the visiting West Indies team.

    However, after being ignored originally for a place in the squad as a backup batsman, Conway could have to wait longer for a debut even if Watling is ruled out with Will Young likely to get the nod ahead of him.

    New Zealand head coach Gary Stead noted that New Zealand will make a final call only on the eve of the game but in case Watling was indeed not available, Tom Blundell will be handed keeping duties and pushed down the order. That would indeed make an opener’s slot available, but Young could bag that by virtue of being chosen ahead of Conway as the original batting backup in the Test squad.

    “We have another injury cover. Devon Conway is here as cover for BJ Watling, who has a slight hamstring niggle that he picked up the day before (Sunday) in his last Ford Trophy match. What that would mean is that Tom Blundell would take the gloves if BJ is ruled out, and bat in the middle order. So that is why we had Conway at training today,” Stead said on Tuesday (December 1).

    Young was in line to make his Test debut against Bangladesh in Christchurch, in place of injured skipper Kane Williamson, before the game got called off due to the mosque shootings. He’s already notched up scores of 27, 64 not out and 133 in the two tour games against the West Indies’ Test lineup.

    Meanwhile, Conway has been the leading run-getter in the Plunket Shield for the past three seasons since arriving from South Africa. He made T20I debut in New Zealand’s 2-0 win over the Caribbean side recently, impressing with 41 and 65 not out in the two completed games.