`There is power in unity’ – Botswana Ambassador to CARICOM

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    A strong working relationship between Botswana and the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would go a long way to ensuring growth and a stronger voice on issues which concern them such as climate change, gen...
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Remarks by Secretary-General CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion of the PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HER EXCELLENCY BERNADETTE RATHEDI, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF BOTSWANA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY

Excellency, I wish to welcome you to the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community as you present your Letters of Credence as the first Plenipotentiary Representative of Botswana. I have no doubt that your wealth of experience as a practitioner of diplomacy and representative of your country, in Eur...
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SG reiterates call for Member States to make CCJ their Final Court

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has once again called for the Member States to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final court of Appeal for the Region. Spe...
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Remarks by the Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque At The   Special Sitting Of The Caribbean Court Of Justice (CCJ)  In Honour Of The   Demission Of Office Of Hon. MMe JUSTICE DESIREE BERNARD, cch, OR

I am privileged to speak on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at this Ceremony honouring Mme Justice Bernard, one of the inaugural Judges, and the first female Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice. Her appointment to that high office was a proud moment for us in the Community, given tha...
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CARICOM gets new Deputy Secretary-General

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Her Excellency Manorma Soeknandan is the new Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. Ambassador Soeknandan, a national of Suriname, assumed duties at the CARICOM Secretariat on 1 F...
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CARICOM Statement on the Situation in Venezuela

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community is concerned by the confrontations which have taken place in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over the past few days in the course of demonstrations.  CARICOM deplores the deaths of t...
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