Mr. President, I should like to join those who have preceded me in warmly welcoming you once again to the Caribbean, on this occasion, for a short encounter with the Heads of Government of our CARICOM Region. We are pleased to be able to spare you a temporary respite from exposure to the asperitie...

Mexico, April 23, 2015.  The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Health of the United Mexican States, through the Federal Commission for Protection from Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS).  The aim of the MoU is to establish ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one of the greatest inventions for economic collaboration among Member States with the ultimate goal of creating benefits for people of the Region, Chair of the 40th Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) the Hon Claude Hogan,...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) moves forward from the recent CARICOM-US summit with seed funding for a sustainable energy programme, a commitment to help fast-track ICT development, and continued support for estab...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      Ministers with responsibility for Trade began a two-day Meeting on Thursday against the background of greater urgency being attached to consolidating the Community's gains under the CARICOM Single Market an...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      I welcome you all to this Fortieth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).  I extend a particularly warm welcome to our Chairman, Minister Claude Hogan who, while not a stranger to this Council, is attending ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     A Cdn$19.5M project aimed at building the statistical capacity in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was launched recently in Grenada. The Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC), funded by the Canadi...

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has described as “important and historic” a working visit to the Secretariat’s headquarters by a team from the African Union Commission (AUC). The three-day visit, which began on Wednesday, forms part of a comparative ...

First, I thank the Government of Panama and President Juan Carlos Varela for their warm hospitality.  My delegation and I are honoured to participate in this historic conference in which the entire Americas is represented and certainly to include the delegation of Cuba headed by His Excellency ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Mr. President, I join my colleague and our host, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, in welcoming you to the Caribbean and this discussion with the Leaders of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM). This meeting is important because it...