CARICOM’S POSSIBILITIES, LIMITATIONS AND UNEVENESS OF OUTCOMES First, congratulations are in order to the people of Antigua and Barbuda and their relevant State institutions for yet again being fully engaged in the democratic exercise of choosing a government through free and fair elections....

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It is also my pleasure to welcome to the post of Chairman, the Honourable Gaston Browne, our host Prime Minister, who is participating in his first meeting of t...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Trinidad and Tobago’s Tonya Nero won the women’s leg of the CARICOM 10K Road Race for the third time in a row, when the event came off in St. John’s, Antigua/Barbuda on Sunday June 29 2014. Nero made it to the finish line in just over ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The first ever Strategic Plan for the Caribbean Community will be among major items for consideration by regional leaders at their 35th annual CARICOM Heads of Government conference in Antigua/Barbuda, July 1-4 2014....

Today we meet to discuss youth entrepreneurial development in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with stakeholder partners locally and CARICOM Secretariat.  The Creative Employment Business Opportunity (CEBO) program is a CARICOM Secretariat initiative that is funded by USAID, UNDP, the Government...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Foreign Ministers of CARICOM and the Dominican Republic and Premiers from the UK overseas territories met in London on 16-17 June 2014 for their biennial high-level talks with the Foreign Office Minister for the Cari...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Raising the consciousness of CARICOM nationals regarding issues related to Reparations for Native Genocide Slavery is, by itself, a win.  Those sentiments were expressed by Programme Manager for Culture and Comm...

We, the Foreign Ministers and representatives of the United Kingdom (UK) and Caribbean governments met at Lancaster House in London on 16 and 17 June 2014 for the eighth UK-Caribbean Ministerial Forum under the theme "A Partnership for Prosperity". The UK-Caribbean Forum was first held in Nassau i...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     CARIFESTA must be sustained despite current economic challenges. That was the main message from CARICOM Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan to delegates at the opening ceremony for the Twenty-Se...

It is a great pleasure for me, in- my capacity as Deputy Secretary General, to extend to all of you a warm welcome to the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee. This is the Regional Body which has been advising our Ministers of Culture for the past 27 years on shaping national and...