Three Hundred and forty (340) Surinamese youth and ten (10) Chinese Shaolin Monks stole the show at the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA XI in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday night. As if to give living testimony to Surinamese President His Excellency Desi Bouterse’s assertion that culture &ldqu...

A special and unique celebration of Caribbean culture begins here and now with the Opening Ceremony of this Eleventh commemoration of CARIFESTA. We have come from all over the Caribbean Community and are joined by our family and many friends from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, to experience...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The new Director of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Carlos Wharton, has prioritised a stocktaking exercise in relation to the work of ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The contribution of women to agriculture and agribusiness, and by extension, to national and regional development was hailed on Tuesday as a Women’s Forum got underway at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA)...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Finance Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reviewed a range of economic and financial issues at the Fifteenth Meeting of CARICOM’s Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Change Facilitation Team based at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has expressed satisfaction at the response by participants at the Guyana national consultations on a Five-year Strategic Plan for th...

Hon. Billie Miller, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers; Other Hon. Ministers; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Distinguished Delegates; Distinguished Guests; Staff of the Secretariat; Members of the M...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Finance Ministers will meet on Wednesday 7 August in Trinidad and Tobago within the framework of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP). High on the agend...

I welcome this opportunity to greet teachers from across the Region, as you gather for your Biennial Conference.   The Region’s gradual shift toward knowledge-based economies, together with competition in the global market place and free movement of skilled labour, has placed new dema...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, has urged teachers gathered in Georgetown, Guyana for the 36th Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Union of Teachers, to place emphasis on ...