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CARIBBEAN-ENVIRONMENT-Regional workshop on biosafety opens in Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A three-day regional workshop on the environmental risk assessment in biosafety began here Monday as the region prepares to participate in two important international environmental conferences later this year.


The workshop forms part of a regional project for implementing national biosafety frameworks in the Caribbean and according to the director of the Environmental Coordinating Unit here, Lloyd Pascal, “this business of biosafety is critical, is important to us”.

EDITORIAL: Girvan’s vision for single economy

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - NOTED THINKERS, scholars and decision-makers of the Caribbean Community continue to offer moving tributes to the remarkable contributions of Dr Norman Girvan who died last week in Havana, Cuba, where he was undergoing emergency medical attention following serious injuries suffered from a fall while on a visit to Dominica.

Dominica Announces Formation of National Committee on Reparations

Following the Caribbean Community’s recent agreement to set up national committees on reparations for slavery, Dominica has announced the formation of its own national committee.

The purpose of the national committees is to “establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of reparations by the former colonial European countries, to the native and people of the Caribbean Community, for native genocide, the transatlantic slave trade and a racialized system of chattel slavery,” according to the government.

DOMINICA-LABOUR-Caribbean trade unionists meet in Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Representatives of Caribbean public service sector unions meet here this weekend amid concerns that the decision of the Barbados government to lay off workers in an attempt to reverse an ailing economy could spread to other regional countries.

Thousands of chikungunya cases in region

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March (CMC) – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) says there are reports of new cases of the chikungunya virus in the Caribbean. The ECDPC said in the past week, 293 new cases of chikungunya have been reported in the region, with confirmed ones in St Martin (French), Martinique, St Barthélemy and Guadeloupe. New cases also surfaced in Dominica and French Guyana as well as St Kitts and Nevis.

Eight Caribbean countries to strengthen HIV programmes - UNAIDS

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday February 25, 2014, CMC – UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that eight regional countries have finalised specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programmes by making them more responsive to human rights.

It said that the representatives from Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago met her last week for a three-day workshop hosted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and supported by the Ford Foundation.

Statement by H.E. Felix Gregoire,  Plenipotentiary Representative Of The Commonwealth of Dominica TO CARICOM

Your Excellency Irwin LaRocque, I bring you greetings from your home country, Dominica, and it is with great humility that I present my Credentials to you as the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).


We are quite aware of the importance of the Regional Integration Movement to our people in the Caribbean, and the achievements of CARICOM to date are many.  However, CARICOM is forging ahead in the planning and implementation of programmes aimed at providing increased benefits to Caribbean citizens.

Newly appointed Dominican Ambassador presents credentials

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, on Thursday said he welcomed steps being taken by Dominica to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) its final court of appeal.

The Secretary General was speaking during a ceremony at the CARICOM Secretariat headquarters, Turkeyen, Guyana, where Ambassador to CARICOM from Dominica His Excellency Felix Gregoire presented his credentials.

Remarks by Secretary-General Of The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On The Occasion   Of The Presentation of Credentials by HIS EXCELLENCY FELIX GREGOIRE Plenipotentiary Representative Of The Commonwealth of Dominica To The Caribbean Community 7 October 2013

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the CARICOM Secretariat for the presentation of your credentials as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

In your new post, you are replacing a much loved and respected figure in the Community, the late Charles Maynard, whose contribution to the integration movement is well chronicled. I am certain, Your Excellency, that you will chart your own path in the knowledge that the foundation laid and the goodwill engendered by Ambassador Maynard will make it easier.

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