'As this COTED deliberates, we are reminded that the framers of the Revised Treaty sought to be careful to strike the right balance between the common interests of the Community and the interests of Member States within our Community of sovereign states.
The competition aims to raise awareness and showcase successful agriculture production programmes that are being led by high school students throughout CARICOM; educate young people about the significance of agriculture to food security, sustainability, and economic development;
A programme to engage and empower youth to become advocates for data-driven decision-making, YSTAT, was launched during the Fourth High-Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics (HLF) in Placencia, Belize, 4 November 2024.
The programme is one of the activities to mark CARICOM Year of Statistics which also was launched during the opening ceremony of the HLF on 4 November.
"CARICOM and India share a longstanding history and deep-rooted partnership, through diplomatic relations forged at the bilateral level and further consolidated between CARICOM and India for over three decades.
The Hon. Philip Davis, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, has issued a call for the Region's bilateral and multilateral partners to scale up resources for climate adaptation and loss and damage, and to ensure that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can access the funds quickly.
CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, over the past week, held discussions with key figures in the margins of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Baku, Azerbaijan. The two-week Conference of the Parties opened on 11 November.
On Thursday 14 November, the Secretary-General met Dr. Mohammed Nagdee, Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE).
Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Grenada, Hon. Dickon Mitchell, called for the closing of the "significant" financing gap Small Island Developing States face in mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis.
COP29 must deliver a climate finance goal that is credible and consequential for achieving the 1.5℃ goal, Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, said on Wednesday.
The Secretary-General made the call at a Leaders’ Summit of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on Climate Change at the COP29 (Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been developing an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development Policy and Programme that includes creating regional AI policy guidance to consider its role in sustainability and climate action.
In appreciation of the yeoman service they rendered to the field of statistics in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), former Directors of Statistics were awarded on 5 November at the conclusion of a CARICOM Population and Housing Census Symposium in Placencia, Belize.