Stronger CARICOM Relations a top priority for Panama

President of Panama H.E. Juan Carlos Varela met with CARICOM Heads of Government during Saturday’s session of their 36th Regular Meeting at the Hilton Hotel, Barbados, and made a strong case for closer cooperation. “Strengthening Panama’s relations with CARICOM at all levels is a top priority for ...
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“Celebrating CARICOM” Day with the CARICOM Song!

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Forty two years ago (July 4, 1973) the CARICOM founding fathers came together and signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community. Today we celebrate this anniversary on “CARICOM Day”, a day we set aside to co...
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Remarks by the Hon. Perry G. Christie Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas and Outgoing Chairman Of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At the Opening of The Thirty –Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government Of The Cari

I am pleased to be back in Barbados for this formal handing over ceremony of the Chair of the Caricom Community.  It has been an honour and a privilege for The Bahamas and for me personally to have served as its Chair.  I now pass the mantle onto the distinguished Prime Minister of Barbados.  I am c...
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Address by Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis At the Opening Of The Thirty –Sixth Regular Meeting Of the   Conference Of Heads Of Government Of The Caribbean Community   Bridgetown, BARBADOS 2 JULY 2014

It is indeed a great pleasure and an honour for me to address this distinguished gathering on behalf of the people of St.Kitts and Nevis. A strong spirit of fraternity and kinship has been fostered among Caribbean leadership for more than four decades, especially among the tiny group of officials, t...
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Continue to be voices of the vulnerable – UN SG tells CARICOM

Praising the Caribbean as a place of ideas, examples and solutions, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday called on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to be voices of the vulnerable in the Region and beyond. He was at the time delivering remarks at the opening ceremony of the...
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Address by the Hon. Donaldson Romeo Premier of Montserrat at the Opening of the Thirty–Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of The Caribbean Community Bridgetown, Barbados 2 July 2014

I recognize that protocols have been established, but please allow me to recognize our Host Governor General Sir  Elliot  Belgrave. The Highly distinguished Chair Hon Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados Colleagues and friends from across the Caribbean. The UN Secretary General a...
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