(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) condemns the killing of three Israeli teenagers and the revenge killing of a young Palestinian.  The Community is deeply concerned by the resulting escalation of violence ...

Madam Chair, the distinguished member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott, other distinguished members of the House of Lords, and House of Commons, Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corp, colleagues at the head table, Ladies and Gentlemen.   I speak this evening, in...

I commence with a heartfelt recognition of the plight of the young high-school girls of Chibok, Borno State, abducted in April of this year, the two teenaged Indian girls raped and hanged in Uttar Pradesh in May and the 25 year old pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death in May for marrying against...

The vision of the leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) articulated forty one (41) years ago has translated in today’s mandate of achieving regional integration through engaging, promoting and providing opportunities to Caribbean Member States to collectively direct the way forward. Ind...

We are honoured to have with us, the distinguished Prime Minister of Spain, The Most Excellent Mariano Rajoy Brey, whose country is no stranger to our Caribbean Sea. We look forward with great anticipation to the discussions we will have with him. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my great privilege to w...

CARICOM’S POSSIBILITIES, LIMITATIONS AND UNEVENESS OF OUTCOMES First, congratulations are in order to the people of Antigua and Barbuda and their relevant State institutions for yet again being fully engaged in the democratic exercise of choosing a government through free and fair elections....

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It is also my pleasure to welcome to the post of Chairman, the Honourable Gaston Browne, our host Prime Minister, who is participating in his first meeting of t...

Today we meet to discuss youth entrepreneurial development in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with stakeholder partners locally and CARICOM Secretariat.  The Creative Employment Business Opportunity (CEBO) program is a CARICOM Secretariat initiative that is funded by USAID, UNDP, the Government...

It is a great pleasure for me, in- my capacity as Deputy Secretary General, to extend to all of you a warm welcome to the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee. This is the Regional Body which has been advising our Ministers of Culture for the past 27 years on shaping national and...

It is a pleasure to warmly welcome all of you to the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (the RCC), a body that has been in existence for over 25 years, having first met on 6-7 June 1987 in Trinidad and Tobago. A very special welcome to the representatives of Member States wh...