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Remarks by the Secretary-General of the CARICOM, Dr Carla Barnett, at the Third CARICOM-Colombia Ministerial Meeting | Cartagena de Indias | May 28, 2025

 Your Excellency Francia Márquez, Vice President of the Republic of Colombia;

 Rt. Honourable Dr. Denzil Douglas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations;

 Your Excellency Laura Sarabia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia;

 Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community and Other Heads of Delegations;

CARICOM-Colombia Foreign Ministers meeting taking place in Cartagena de Indias

(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) -
CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett is leading the Secretariat’s delegation to the Third Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Republic of Colombia, which will be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on May 28, 2025. The theme of the meeting is “Sustainable Development and Climate Change.”

We must do more and do it more quickly - SG urged CARICOM Heads on CSME

 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     As the CARICOM Single Market and Economy returns to Jamaica, its place of induction, for a review, the CARICOM Secretary-General said while much has been accomplished under its regimes, the Region has not achieved as much as it should have by now.

 

The humbugs, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque posited ,were that “major policy decisions and adoption of legal instruments take much too long to be negotiated.”

 

Remarks by the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion of the Presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Peterson Benjamin Noel Plenipotentiary Representative (DESIGNATE) of the Republic of Haiti To The Caribbean Community   Georgetown, GUYANA 10 January 2014

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you, Ambassador Noel, as Haiti’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community.  Ambassador, you, however, are far from being a newcomer to our Community and this institution in particular.

U.S. expels 3 Venezuelan diplomats amid growing political row

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Venezuela is protesting Washington’s decision to expel three of its diplomats in a tit-for-tat purge of embassy officials that has brought relations between the countries to a standstill.
The U.S. State Department announced that it was expelling Venezuela’s Chargé d’affaires Calixto Ortega, Second Secretary Mónica Sánchez and Venezuela’s Houston onsul Marisol Gutiérrez.

Caribbean, Latin American leaders likely to discuss spying, development at U.N. meeting

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff cancelled a U.S. state visit over allegations that the National Security Agency listened into her conversations and spied on state-run oil company Petrobras.
On Tuesday, as she kicks off the United Nations 68th General Assembly, she’s expected to vent those grievances to the globe by calling for more oversight and stricter rules to keep the U.S. from being a global peeping tom.

Colombia, U.S. help train Haitian women police

FUSAGASUGA, Colombia -- Juliana Jolissaint is no more than 5-feet-5 and 123 pounds, but she could easily instill fear in the heart of a criminal. Put a nightstick in her hand and she drops a comrade to the ground in seconds. “I was very slow,” said Jolissaint, a 21-year-old cadet from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. “Everything that I have to do [now], I do fast. This is an experience, a great opportunity.” Since arriving at the Sumapaz academy near Bogotá four months ago, Jolissaint has learned to run everywhere she goes, march in formation, bark out orders and use her nightstick for self-defense.

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