| “Climate Change is a numbers game, and we have to understand what the numbers mean and what they mean for our future,” said the Hon. Vaughn Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of The Bahamas. |
Friday, 22 March 2024, (PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, concluded the Eighth Meeting of National AIDS Programme (NAP) Managers and Key Partners in Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday, 20 March 2024.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) - Your Excellency Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa;
Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, and Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations;
Other Honourable Ministers;
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is eager to deepen its cooperation with the Kingdom of Sweden in education and ICT.
CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett underscored this interest while accrediting a new envoy from the Nordic country, His Excellency Andres Bengtcén.
As the world celebrates World Consumer Rights Day 2024, we must reflect on the evolving landscape of consumer rights, especially in artificial intelligence (AI). In a world increasingly driven by data and algorithms, ensuring fair and responsible AI for consumers has become a pressing concern.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) The First Special Meeting of the Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) and Attorneys-General of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Host Countries was held 8 - 9 March 2024, at the Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Dale Marshall, SC, Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Barbados.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) - A commitment to a transitional governance arrangement in Haiti and the resignation of interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry were among the major outcomes, as CARICOM, international partners, and Haitian stakeholders concluded a High-Level Meeting on Haiti late Monday [11 March 2024] evening in New Kingston, Jamaica.
The CARICOM Secretariat co-facilitated a workshop in Grenada on 12 March that was aimed at helping to create legal frameworks and institutional guidelines to implement the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora. The CITES of Wild Fauna and Flora programme aims to safeguard endangered animals and plants from harmful international trade, thus ensuring their survival.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) - “The people of Haiti deserve the opportunity to experience another way of being to determine their destiny, to secure their rights and to be free from oppressive forces from within and without.”
These were the words of host Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica, as he made an impassioned plea for the people of Haiti at the High-Level Meeting on Haiti, held on Monday 11 March in Jamaica.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chair of CARICOM, H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Monday [11 March 2024] called on Haitian stakeholder groups to “give a little” to reach consensus on the way forward, “for the greater good of the Haitian people.”
The President of Guyana was at the time addressing the High-Level Meeting on Haiti in New Kingston, Jamaica.