Press Release- Trinidad and Tobago. 11 November 2021. Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an agreement today to achieve Caribbean Regional Health Security, through the building of core capacity within CARPHA to prevent, detect, respond to and control infectious disease outbreaks. Based on the request from CARPHA and the decision of the Government of Japan, JICA, an implementing organisation of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA), is collaborating on a new technical cooperation project including provision of testing kits and laboratory equipment worth 1 million US$. Today, both parties signed the record of discussions, the official
