FIFA and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat held a kick-off meeting to discuss the development of a collaboration plan under the CARICOM-FIFA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU, signed in 2021, established a mechanism between the two parties to strengthen collaboration to promo...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government have adopted a Protocol which should create opportunities to further the principles, goals and objectives of the Community  through Enhanced Cooperation. The “Protocol to Amend the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas Establishing the Caribbean Comm...

In the lead up to #MinamataCOP4, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Clean Lighting Coalition are hosting a virtual conversation to highlight the feasibility and benefits of a transition to mercury-free LED lighting in Latin America and the Caribbean. A transition to energy-effi...

The CARICOM Secretariat has revised its organisational structure to refocus the work of its Directorates and Offices in order to improve and strengthen its work processes. The Directorate of Trade and Economic Integration has been renamed the Directorate of Economic Integration, Innovation and De...

Following a two-year delay as a result of COVID-19, the International community  re-convened at UN Headquarters in New York this week to continue negotiations on an international legally binding instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainabl...

Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados; Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, President of Caribbean Court of Justice; Honourable Mr. Justice Winston Anderson, Chairman of the Pioneering Ca...

MESSAGE FROM DR. CARLA N. BARNETT SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE SESSION IN COMMERATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY DURING THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE FORUM OF THE COUNTRIES OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SAN JOSÉ, COSTA R...

MESSAGE FROM DR. CARLA N. BARNETT SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 March 2022 It is a distinct honour and pleasure for me to celebrate our women and girls across the Caribbean Community on International Women’s Da...

JOINT DECLARATION OF SAN PEDRO IV SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Central American Integration System (SICA) 3 March 2022 We, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Central American Integratio...

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,  I want to start by expressing my deepest apologies for not being able to join you in person.   I want to thank you profoundly for your understanding, but I am very sorry I cannot go.    As you know well, pressing global even...