Ambassadors to CARICOM, representatives of Member States, representatives of Regional Institutions, experts from Baastel,  representatives from Directorates of the Secretariat, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I  have the distinct honour and pleasure to welcome you to the Secreta...

Remarks By The Secretary-General Caribbean Community (Caricom) Ambassador Irwin Larocque At The Opening Of The Twenty-eighth Inter-sessional Meeting Of The Conference Of Heads Of Government Of The Caribbean Community Georgetown, Guyana, February 16-17, 2017   His Excellency Brigadier (Retired...

Address of His Excellency Brigadier David Granger President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana  to the Twenty-eighth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community The four founding fathers – Barbados’s Errol Barrow, Guyana’s Fo...

His Excellency Franz Manderson, Acting Governor of the Cayman Islands   Honourable Alden McLaughlin Premier, Cayman Islands;   Honourable Ministers of the Caribbean Community   Members of the Legislative Assembly   Honourable Matai Seremaiah Nawalu - Minister of Agricultu...

It is with great pleasure that I deliver this message on the occasion of Caribbean Statistics Day 2016. The significant role of Statistics in the development of the Community is well recognised.  The performance of Member States with respect to the real growth rate of GDP, exports and imports ...

Salutations My fellow citizens and residents, congratulations on our thirty-third Independence Anniversary. This year we celebrate our Independence under the theme “Promoting Prosperity through Sustainability and National Unity.” This theme was chosen specifically to encapsulate how on...

Let me thank my fellow Heads of Government for their warm welcome as the new Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.  The numerous congratulatory messages received from the entire region speaks to the profound respect given to this new designation, which the people of my beautiful country have bestowed ...

I am honoured to join colleagues here in our beautiful sister state of Guyana, at this, the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government. I thank you President Granger, Secretary General LaRocque and the Government and people of Guyana for the warm...

It is with a degree of conviction, that we are on the right track, and with optimism for the future, that I assume Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It is also at a time when the Conference of Heads of Government is being infused with new blood. In welcoming the Most Honourable And...

Normally I would begin by welcoming you all to the Thirty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).  However, I believe it is only fitting that at the outset, we should pay tribute  to a true  champion of CARICOM, the late M...