(CARIFORUM Directorate, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - CARIFORUM Senior Officials met recently in an Open-Ended Committee to continue preparations for the second joint review of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - The Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) has warmly congratulated His Excellency Albert Ramdin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation of Suriname, on his historic election as the new Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - CARICOM and Germany have agreed to strengthen their traditionally friendly relations through closer cooperation in key areas over the next five years.
(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) - On Thursday, 27 February, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr Carla Barnett welcomed a courtesy call from the A3 Plus Group of the United Nations Security Council.
The Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, will lead a review of the telecommunications environment in the Region. Prime Minister Mitchell is Lead Head of Government with responsibility for Science and Technology in the CARICOM Quasi Cabinet.
(CARIFORUM Directorate, Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - CARIFORUM Senior officials recently met with counterparts from the European Commission to continue discussions on the simplification of the rules of origin that govern trade in goods under the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have established an inter-governmental working group to advance arrangements to improve maritime transportation in the Region.
Senator the Hon. Dr. Amery Browne, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, will head the working group which will include other ministers from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - Chair of CARICOM, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados; CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett; United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres; and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen have underscored the need to work together amid current global flux.
Uncertainties in the global trade arena and impacts from natural disasters in the Region are among the factors that have necessitated an extension to the regional food security initiative.
Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon, Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, said that there is need for reform of the governance mechanisms of CARICOM.
Prime Minister Mottley raised the issue of governance of the Region in her address to the opening of the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM on Wednesday in Bridgetown, Barbados.