Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Hugh Todd recently chaired the Fifty-Third Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers which discussed important Community matters including the provisional agenda for the Forty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government, scheduled from 3-5 July 2024 in St George’s, Grenada.
The practical ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat can support the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in its preparations for COP 29 was a key topic when a CARICOM team held talks with the UNFCCC.
The discussions on Monday 27 May, were held during the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States in Antigua and Barbuda, and also focused on the outcomes of COP 28.
Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, on Tuesday 28 May, attended a high-level breakfast hosted by His Excellency Dennis Francis, President of the United Nations General Assembly President (UNGA). Discussions at the event focused on sea level rise. The event was held on the margins of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) Conference in Antigua and Barbuda.
Here are some photos from the event:
The Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcome the news of the designation of a Transitional Prime Minister in Haiti. The unanimous election of Dr. Garry Conille by the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), following a selection process with nominations from several stakeholder sectors, is another important step forward on the path to free and fair elections and the return to constitutional order in Haiti.
The Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Roseau, Dominica from 23-24 May 2024, under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Dr. Vince Henderson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, on Tuesday continued rounds of bilateral meetings in Antigua and Barbuda that focused on support to CARICOM, sustainable development, climate change and foreign policy matters.
The Secretary-General engaged in talks with Norway, Romania, and Japan on the margins of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua and Barbuda.
As CARICOM, and all SIDS, continue to bear the brunt of global climate change – climate change that we do not cause - we are alarmed by the apparent drawback by some in the international community from the ambition necessary to limit increases in global temperature to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - Dominica has assumed the chairmanship of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), receiving the baton from Jamaica at the 27th Meeting of COFCOR in Roseau, Dominica.
CARICOM Ministers with responsibility for Environment and Sustainable Development met for the 112th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development on the Environment and Sustainable Development which took place on 15 May 2024.
Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, held several bilateral talks on Monday, 27 May, on the margins of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) now underway in Antigua and Barbuda.