(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Her Excellency Irina Bokova, Director-General, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday co...

It is indeed a great pleasure for me to join you at this session between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and UNESCO taking place at its Thirty-Seventh General Conference.  I wish to express our appreciation to you, Director General, for affording the CARICOM delegations this opportunity to me...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations health agency has approved a new vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), stressing that access to the vaccine will help save the lives of children in developing countries, including the Caribbean. The World Health Organization (WHO) added the Chine...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic depriving Dominican-born persons of Haitian descent of their right to citizenship could have a “devastating impact” on thousands of...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, on Monday called for bold actions to ensure that Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and disabilities are among the priorities in the post 2015-development...

(Miami Herald) - UNITED NATIONS Hoping to improve peace and security around the world, Argentine President Cristina Fernández led a day-long Security Council meeting Tuesday where she and other leaders said regions in turmoil could learn from how Latin American and the Caribbean have settled ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, CMC -A United Nations food relief agency says it remains “extremely concerned” by the plight of 1.5 million people in Haiti who need food assistance following extreme weather conditions and poor harvests. In addition to the 1.5 million people facing food insecurity, ...

Caribbean Trade Ministers will meet with the Mexican Foreign Minister and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday 28 November, 2003. H.E Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was the Chairman of the Fifth ...

The Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference came to an end in Cancún, Mexico, September 14. However, the ‘endgame’ was not the result WTO members had hoped for. The Cancún summit closed with no consensus on key items on its agenda. Members failed to br...

Today the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, Mexico, at which all Caribbean Countries were present, ended without agreement on the many key issues. Billed as a Conference to advance the Doha Development Round of Trade Negotiations, the Conference collapsed on the...