It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this, the Fifty‑Fourth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) (Energy) and to the CARICOM Secretariat. This is the second Special Meeting of the COTED on Energy within the last twenty‑four months. When you me...

These meetings are being held even as world oil prices, having plummeted in the recent months, despite modest gains continue to hover at below US$50 per barrel. While this fortuitous development provides some temporary respite to those of us who are almost totally dependent on this source of importe...

  In welcoming you all to this first Ministerial Meeting for 2015, I wish you a Happy and Productive New Year. In extending that welcome, I do so especially to the Honourable Donville Inniss, Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business development of Barbados and...

n a message to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has called for reflection on the lessons learned and consideration of the positive steps taken to reduce vulnerability and exposure in the Region. W...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    We have come to the end of what has been an exacting year for most of our Member States and their citizens.  The difficulties, with which governments and people have been confronted, demanded strength of character and...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     As we come to the end of 2014, it must be marked as a milestone year for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).  In July, Heads of Government approved the Community’s first Five-Year Strategic Plan which cover...

This Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit is testimony to the solidarity and fraternal relationship that exist among us as Caribbean people.  Forty-two years ago today, we began this journey when the four independent countries of CARICOM, acting in concert, came to Havana to establish diplomatic relations...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at the invitation of the Government of Dominica, mounted a CARICOM Election Observation Mission to Dominica to observe the country’s General Election which is due to be held on Monday, 8 December 2014.  The seven member Mission comprising members of seve...

Monday on the occasion of World AIDS Day, Sophia Martelly, the First Lady of Haiti has issued a message of hope. Message from Sophia Martelly : "The World Day against AIDS is once again an opportunity to take stock of the HIV epidemic in Haiti and look it in the face, our achievements and challenge...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     It has been over three decades since the first case of AIDS was recorded, leaving a trail of crippling fear that gripped the nations of the Caribbean. Though much work is still to be done, the fear is now abating. Mo...