There could hardly be a more fitting way to mark this CARICOM-Japan Friendship Year than to welcome, for the first time to the Caribbean Community, the Prime Minister of Japan.  Welcome to the Caribbean Prime Minister Abe! Twenty years ago the first CARICOM-Japan Consultation was held and sinc...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The structure established to pave the way for an AIDS-free Caribbean is getting an operational plan. Representatives from regional support agencies within the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP...

Excellency, it is my pleasure to receive your credentials as your country’s second Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).  Our relations have been improving steadily since our first interaction in 2009 and further strengthened by the efforts of your predecess...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Finland’s Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Kim Luotonen, on Friday presented his credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. At the ceremony held at th...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, in a presentation to the British House of Commons on 16 July 2014, expressed the view that the reparations process will bring honour and di...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     A group of young people in Guyana will get an opportunity to learn valuable animation skills through a project coordinated by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. The project, which is being implemented in...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The impact of the global financial crisis on social security institutions across the region is at the top of the agenda as CARICOM Heads of Social Security Organisations hold their 25th Meeting in St. Vincent and the...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      The Guyana-based Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) was honoured with the 2014 Red Ribbon Award for Advocacy and Human Rights at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Austr...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) says it is deeply saddened that a number of great friends in the fight against HIV may have been lost in the devastating crash of Malaysia flight MH17 last ...

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet with Japanese Prime Minister His Excellency Shinzo Abe in the first ever CARICOM-Japan Summit on 28 July 2014 in Trinidad and Tobago. Since 1993, CARICOM and Japan have enjo...