Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Executive Management of the CARICOM Secretariat, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Other Distinguished Guests and Officials, Brothers and Sisters of the Caribbean Community, Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to stand...

Your Excellency Leslia Miller-Brice, Ambassador of  The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community; Ambassador Donna Forde, Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations, and other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat. It is with great pleasure that I accept your Letter of Credence as th...

Grenada's Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has announced that General Elections will be held on 23 June 2022. Nominations Day will be 1 June. Dr Keith Mitchell The Elections are expected to be a straight fight between Prime Minister Mitchell's New National Party (NNP) and the opposition Natio...

The Regional Statistics Programme of the CARICOM Secretariat has established an electronic platform for training, research and knowledge acquisition that is aimed at improving statistical capacity in the Region on a sustainable basis. The platform is the Statistical Training and Research in the C...

Barbados has met all quantitative targets for end-December 2021 and end-March 2022 under the IMF’s EFF making it eligible for a drawdown of US$23 million. According to the IMF’s Bert van Selm, “international reserves, which reached a low of US$220 million (5-6 weeks of imports) in May 2018, are n...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed deep regret at the passing of Cuba’s former Foreign Affairs Minister HE Ricardo Alarcón, who played a constructive role in advancing Cuba’s relationship with CARICOM.  Mr   Alarcón died recently in Havana at the age of 84. CARICOM Sec...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed its profound sorrow at the loss of life in the accident at Cuba’s Hotel Saratoga. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett expressed the Community’s condolences in a message to Cuba’s President H.E.  Miguel Díaz-Canel: “Excellency The C...

Seprod Limited is moving to acquire a 100 year-old Trinidad & Tobago company, A.S. Bryden & Sons Holdings, “to  create the leading integrated manufacturing and distribution group in the Caribbean," the companies said In a joint announcement. Their combined revenues is estimated at US...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) takes note of the release on April 29, 2022, of the Report of the British Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry (COI) with its far-reaching recommendations.   The British Virgin Islands (BVI), a British Overseas Territory, has been an Associate Member of th...

His Excellency Joseph Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission; Senator the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize and Chair of the CARICOM Cou...