Press Releases

Caribbean Foreign Ministers will meet with United States Secretary of State Madeline Albright on Thursday October 2 in New York. The informal session will take place over breakfast at the Waldorf Astoria and will be the first high level encounter between the two sides since the Summit Meeting betwee...

The CARICOM Secretariat is concerned by suggestions coming out of Grenada and reported in the regional media that the CARICOM Common Market is not operating in an "equitable manner" The CARICOM Secretariat wishes to state that all decisions to approve or deny requests for suspensions of the Common E...

The original inhabitants of Dominica celebrate Carib Week from September 14 through 21 under the theme "Striving Together for Progress and Unity". Historically regarded as the first inhabitants of the Caribbean territory, they now number 3 400 persons living on approximately three and a half acres o...

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, the Hon Hubert Ingraham will carry the message of ACP unity from the Caribbean to the Pacific when he addresses Pacific leaders in Rarotonga, Cook Islands on September 17. Mr Ingraham, who will be accompanied by CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington to the thre...

Arrangements for the CARICOM Village at Davy Hill, Montserrat were put on the fast-track following the second meeting of the Regional Resource team for Montserrat on September 24. Chairman of CARICOM, the Rt Hon. Percival Patterson turned the sod to begin construction of the village on August 25 and...