Remarks by Ambassador Wayne McCook, Assistant Secretary General, CARICOM Single Market and Trade |Opening of the National Consultations on CSME Implementation | Trinidad and Tobago | Tuesday 18 March 2025

-Salutations- I am honoured and delighted to be here in Trinidad and Tobago for this CSME country mission. Trinidad and Tobago is a foundational bulwark of regional integration and has been central to all phases of our regional integration effort as the seat of the West Indies federation, a fo...
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Food Security Initiative Expanded, Extended to 2030

Uncertainties in the global trade arena and impacts from natural disasters in the Region are among the factors that have necessitated an extension to the regional food security initiative. The 25 by 2025 Initiative, which targeted the reduction of the Region’s more than $6B food import bill by 25...
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Food for Lunch webinar to focus on water management in agriculture

Our Food for Lunch webinar series will continue on Friday, 28 February at 12:30 pm, ECT. This one-hour virtual session will be conducted under the theme -  ‘Exploring Sustainable Water Management Practices in the Caribbean - An Agriculture and Food Security Perspective’. The Caribbean W...
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Advances being made to encourage youth in agriculture

The Caribbean Community Secretariat continues to make advances in its quest to encourage the Region’s youth to become more involved in the agriculture sector. Last year, the Secretariat consolidated its approach to youth with several targeted programmes including the continuation of the ‘I am CAR...
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Major achievements under food security initiative

The 25 by 2025 food and nutrition security initiative has recorded major achievements including increased production across the Region, and the implementation of key agricultural policies, the CARICOM Secretariat’s Agriculture Programme has reported. The Initiative aims to reduce the Region’s hig...
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