Remarks by Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community at the Opening Ceremony of the Climate Change and Health Orientation and Training Workshop for CARICOM Youth Ambassadors and Youth Leaders, 23 April 2024

 Honourable Frank Anthony, Minister of Health of Guyana;  Representatives of International Organisations;  Ms. Alison Drayton, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development;  Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat;  CARICOM Youth Ambassadors and Youth Leaders ...
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Pre-Recorded Video Remarks from Dr. Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at the Third Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Geneva Switzerland, 16-19 April 2024

Dr. June Soomer, Chairperson; United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent; Distinguished Members of the Permanent Forum; Representatives of Member States and Civil Society; Ladies and Gentlemen. I bring warm Caribbean greetings from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM...
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CARICOM celebrates International Girls in ICT Day 2024, 25 April

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will celebrate International Girls in ICT Day this year with a hybrid event on 25 April 2024, that will be anchored at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana. The CARICOM Girls in ICT Partnership and the Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC) organisatio...
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CARICOM SG accredits new Brazilian Ambassador

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) - Following the engagement between Heads of Government and Brazil’s President Lula DaSilva in Guyana last February, the country appointed a new ambassador who has pledged to address the potential of CARICOM-Brazil relations during her tenure. CA...
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STATEMENT ON THE UNACCEPTABLE ESCALATION OF TENSIONS AND THREATS TO REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY OCCASIONED BY THE ADOPTION OF “THE ORGANIC LAW FOR THE DEFENCE OF GUYANA ESSEQUIBA” ON APRIL 3, 2024, BY THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater, Georgetown, Guyana) - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) considers that the adoption of “the Organic Law for the Defence of Guyana Essequiba” on 3 April 2024, by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has occasioned an unacceptable escalation o...
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