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PANCAP to host Bi-National Commission on health for Guyana & Suriname

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) in collaboration with the German International Cooperation (GIZ), EPOS Health Management and Ministry of Health Guyana will host a Bi-National Commission for Collaboration on Health for Guyana and Suriname from 11-13 July, 2013 in Georgetown, Guyana.

Institutional Collaboration the Way Forward for EPA Implementation

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The out-going Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Ivan Ogando Lora, has lauded the “spirit of cooperation” underpinning the development of National Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Plans in the eight regional states that elected to pursue these Plans.

CARICOM OFFICIALS TO RECEIVE TRAINING TO RESPOND TO CBRNE EMERGENCY

Bridgetown, Barbados – July 9, 2013 – INTERPOL and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) will be hosting a two-day workshop from Wednesday, July 10 to Thursday, July 11, which will enable the Member States within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to develop capabilities to respond to a national or regional emergency related to the accidental or deliberate use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive (CBRNE) materials.

SPEECH   BY PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS THE HON. FREUNDEL J. STUART, Q.C., M.P.  AT THE   COMMEMORATION EVENT AT THE CHAGUARAMAS CONVENTION CENTRE, CHAGUARAMAS 4 JULY 2013

Mr. Chairman,

Your Excellency, President of Trinidad and Tobago,

Honourable Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago,

Fellow Heads of Government,

Excellencies,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and gentlemen.

Today is the 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord 2013. Forty years ago at this place, the Treaty of Chaguaramas was signed. Today, we try to re-enact what happened forty years ago.

CARICOM Secretariat partners with UNECLAC, UNFPA for migration forum

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat is partnering with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) and the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) for the Caribbean Forum on Population, Migration and Development.

Heads agree on reparations follow-up action

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on the final day of their Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting agreed on follow-up action on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery.

Statement by Ambassador Lorne T. McDonnough Chief Executive Officer Of the CARICOM Development Fund At the SIGNING OF THE COUNTRY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME AGREEMENT between the THE GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA and the CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND   HILTON HOTEL, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

HE Donald Ramotar, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,Hon. Ashni Singh-Minister of Finance,Hon Carolyn Rodrigues-Berkett--Minister of Foreign Affairs,Hon. Robeson Benn, Minister of Public Works,Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press.

 

Guyana gets US$7.3M from CDF

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Guyana and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) on Saturday, 6 July, 2013, signed a country assistance programme agreement that will inject US$7.32M into Guyana’s agriculture sector.