(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Trade between Brazil and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has tripled in “a few years” since the thrust by Brazil to open resident embassies in every CARICOM Member State. This was relayed by newly accr...

Dr. Monroe, his wife Ruth, and several others, perished in a plane crash on Sunday in Grand Bahama, The Bahamas. Ambassador LaRocque‘s sentiments were expressed in a message of condolence to the Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Rt. Honourable Perry G. Christie. Here’s the full text of ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Engagement with the private sector and Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on a more continuous basis will be facilitated following a meeting of the Trade Ministerial body that concluded Friday. On t...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    Employers’ and workers’ associations from across the Region will  be sensitized and updated on the CSME regimes for free movement of skills and labour, at a major regional CARICOM and Single Market and Eco...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     This week, leaders and key decision-makers gathered to strategise and to identify the actions needed to achieve the goals set out by the recently adopted Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) 2014-2018. A rec...

  Before the beginning of our business here today, I would like to pause to pay tribute to Margaret Kalloo, former Deputy Programme Manager in the Agriculture Unit of the Secretariat. We, at the Secretariat, are in a reflective mode following Margaret’s death last week. Margaret almost s...

Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in special session in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 November, 2014, for deliberations on the two current public health challenges facing the Community: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); and the Chikungunya outbreak. Heads of Government ex...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     In what could only be described as a  most memorable opening, the  13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) got underway in  Pointe-à-Pitre, Gua...

Fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda Happy Independence Day to you. At 33, ours is still a young star in the galaxy of older nations that form our world. Yet, already we have embedded in our society values and traditions that were achieved by others only after centuries of c...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Official Opening of the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) takes place at the Creole Beach Hotel, Guadeloupe on Monday evening, 03 November 2014. Deborah L...