(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Each year, approximately 200,000 youths aged 10 to 29 die, and many more sustain serious injuries, because of violence across the world[1]. “Youth violence is a global challenge”. One which the Caribbean ...

Saint Lucia has made a sterling contribution to the Region’s effort towards coordinated, balanced and integrated action required to ensure the survival of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) with the threat that climate change poses. This sentiment was expressed in a message from the C...

Mission Head, Ms. Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer, Elections and Boundaries Department, Belize. The CARICOM Election Observation Mission mounted for Jamaica’s February 25 General Elections has hit the ground with meetings involving the country’s two major political parties &nd...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is mounting a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to monitor the general elections to be held in Jamaica, Thursday 25 February 2016. The Mission is being headed by Ms. Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer, Elections and Boundaries Department, Belize. The other ...

The Twenty-Seventh Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Placencia, Belize on 16-17 February 2016.  The Prime Minister of Belize, the Honourable Dean Barrow, chaired the proceedings.   Other members of the Confer...

The Twenty-Seventh Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Placencia, Belize on 16-17 February 2016.  The Prime Minister of Belize, the Honourable Dean Barrow, chaired the proceedings.   Other members of the Confer...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government have agreed to maintain the diplomatic engagement at international levels in support of the 1.5°C goal coming out of the COP 21 agreement signed in Paris last year. ...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have agreed to maintain the diplomatic engagement at international levels in support of the 1.5°C goal coming out of the COP 21 Agreement signed in Paris, France, last year. Prime Minister of Belize and Chairman of the Community, the Hon Dean Barrow, referr...

Prime Minister of Belize and Chairman of the Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government Hon. Dean Barrow on Wednesday announced a series of actions that CARICOM Member States will take to confront the Zika virus that is affecting the Region. The course of action includes continuous public educat...

- Mr. Remwick Rose, Chairman of the CARIFORUM Representatives of Civil Society; - Ambassador Mikael Barfod, Head of the EU Delegation to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean; - Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen  On behalf of the Director-General of the CARIFORUM Directorate, Mr. Percival Mari...