The Special Topic Statistical Bulletin on COVID-19 in CARICOM Countries, Issue 33, provides an update of the trajectory of the COVID-19 in the CARICOM Region up to 6 November 2020. The Bulletin provides information on the pattern of the disease of the total number of confirmed cases, new cases an...

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) DR THE HONOURABLE RALPH GONSALVES PRIME MINISTER OF ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES JOSEPH R BIDEN Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CAR...

The CARICOM Election Observation Mission for the 5 November 2020 General Elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has concluded that the Elections were free and fair and free from fear and that the outcome reflected the will of the people. Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves’ Unity Labour Party ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belize, via correspondence dated 13 October 2020 to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, invited the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to field a CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) to observe the conduct of the General Elections to be held in that co...

Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves led his Unity Labour Party (ULP) to a 5th consecutive term of office in General Elections held on Thursday, 5 November 2020. Preliminary results show the ULP won nine of the 15 seats at stake, with the other six going to the main opposition New Democratic Party ...

CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES GENERAL ELECTIONS, 5 NOVEMBER 2020 ARRIVAL STATEMENT By way of letter dated 7 October 2020, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines invited the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to field a miss...

Energy Experts Discuss Path to Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Future for the Region Under the theme “A RE-silient Community: Energy at the Centre”, CARICOM Energy Month got underway on 2 November with a virtual regional launch in the form of a panel discussion.  The 2020 launch was held b...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of the Commonwealth of Dominica on the country’s Forty-Second Anniversary as an independent nation. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, p...

OPENING REMARKS Forty-fifth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (45th SCCS)  (2-3 November 2020) Thirty-Third Meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (33rd RCCC) (4 November 2020) [caption id="attachment_26223" align="alignleft" width="326"] ...

The IMF has announced that all quantitative targets for endSeptember under the Extend Fund Facility (EFF) with Barbados were met. It further advised that the programme target for Net International Reserves was met by a wide margin exceeding US$1 billion. Those were the findings of the virtual EFF...