Bridgetown, Barbados, January 09, 2014 (CDEMA) - In excess of EC$ 3,000,000.00 in donations have been mobilised by the Caribbean Community since a trough system impacted St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Dominica over the Christmas holidays.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has extended congratulations and best wishes to Haiti on the occasion of its 210th anniversary of independence celebrated on Wednesday, 1 January 2014.
In a congratulatory message to His Excellency Michel Martelly, President of the Republic of Haiti, the Secretary-General said that Haiti’s pride of place in history was unquestionable.
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque praised Grenada for leading by example in using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to create an enabling environment to pursue its social and economic development goals.
The Secretary-General was speaking during a ceremony at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown Guyana where he received the credentials of Grenada’s new Ambassador to the Community, His Excellency Patrick Antoine.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The work that has been done with the CARICOM Reform Process is to be applauded. That was the sentiment expressed by newly appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of Grenada to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Patrick Antoine.
The Ambassador was speaking during a ceremony at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown Guyana where he handed over his credentials to Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
Excellency, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the CARICOM Secretariat for the presentation of your credentials as the Plenipotentiary Representative of Grenada to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Energy sector officials are meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, this week to chart the way forward in energy information gathering and dissemination, management and planning.
The Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government which was held in July 2013 in Trinidad and Tobago, agreed to set up National Committees on Reparations, to establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of reparations by the former colonial European countries, to the nations and people of the Caribbean Community, for native genocide, the transatlantic slave trade and a racialized system of chattel slavery.
We, the representatives of the Fifteen States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),
Having met in Pétion Ville on 5 and 6 December 2013 for the High Level Ministerial Meeting on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Recalling the decision of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, meeting in July 2013, that priority attention be given to the concerns of persons with disabilities;
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador John W. Ashe, President of the 68th Session of the General Assembly, and Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund will lead a high level delegation to Trinidad and Tobago for a regional consultation on adolescent pregnancy. The purpose of the consultation is to explore the opportunities and challenges in addressing adolescent pregnancy which has been identified by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as a priority issue.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is urging an early resolution of the issues surrounding the implementation of recommendations to address deficiencies in the anti-money laundering regime of Guyana.