Eighty CARICOM Secretariat staffers received certificates on Thursday, 8 September 2016, after an intensive week-long training on Writing with Impact. The professional development initiative, spearheaded by the Secretariat’s Office of the Deputy Secretary-General in collaboration with the Canadian Executive Service Organisation (CESCO), updated staff on current developments in the field.
For 40 years, Regional integration has been driven by the central aims of improving economic and social wellbeing for all. While the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) can look back with pride at the progress it has made since them, it is time to increase the pace towards greater prosperity
(CARICOM Secretariat Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community’s first Strategic Plan, driven by inputs and reviews by stakeholders across the Community, will be presented to CARICOM Heads for consideration at their 35th Annual conference in Antigua and Barbuda, July 1 -4 2014.
The Plan outlines a comprehensive development agenda for the Community, but emphasizes the need to target a selected set of specific outcomes within specified timeframes, with a focus on practical and achievable goals.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) acknowledges the key roles of both young people and ICT play in the regional integration movement that aims to enhance the standards of living and work across the region.
GOAL/VISION: Fundamental transformation of the energy sectors of the Member States of the Community through the provision of secure and sustainable supplies of energy in a manner which minimizes energy waste in all sectors, to ensure that all CARICOM citizens have access to modern, clean and reliable energy supplies at affordable and stable prices, and to facilitate the growth of internationally competitive Regional industries towards achieving sustainable development of the Community.
At the last Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community matters relating to migration came up for discussion during Retreat. The Heads of Government considered several aspects of the issue, which was guided by a prepared paper, which included a section on The Caribbean Diaspora.
The youngest winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, UWI-CARICOM Youth Consultant, Mr. Ruel Johnson offers a perspective on The Diaspora.
The Diaspora
by
Ruel Johnson
(The youngest winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, he is currently a journalist)
The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) hopes a new ballistic information system will help track down guns used by certain gangs and reduce the backlog of criminal cases across the region.
The Regional Integrated Ballistic Information Network (RIBIN) would be empowered by a Charter and Participation Agreement.
PORT-OF-SPAIN – Trinidad & Tobago – July 08, 2013……“Reparation is an integral element of our development strategy and the legacy of slavery and colonialism in the Caribbean have severely impaired our development options…(therefore)reparation must be directed towards repairing the damage”.
PORT-OF-SPAIN – Trinidad & Tobago – July 08, 2013……Making his contribution to Agenda Item 4 “A Framework for regional Growth and Development”, Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Baldwin Spencer told his colleagues at the recently held CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting “as we continue to grapple with the challenges, urgent, bold and innovative strategies must continue to be devised to safeguard the survival of our economies.
Consequently, PM Spencer is suggesting a regional Marshall like Plan as an element of the overall strategy to deal with the economic challenges.
A CARICOM National, who is a wage earner, must be insured in the Member State where he or she is employed and must therefore make contributions to the respective Social Security Organisation. He/She is entitled to the same benefits as nationals of the host country.
The CARICOM Agreement on socal Security came into effect on April 1st, 1997. It protects all entitlements to long term benefits by providing for the totaling of all the contributions which were paid to the respective Social Security Organisation in the Member States where a national previously worked.