Month: July 2013
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CARICOM is 40, But Who is Celebrating?
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is celebrating 40 years of existence. But who is really celebrating? Certainly not the masses of Caribbean peoples, plagued with high levels of unemployment, crime, debt and anxiety about the future. Officialdom is celebrating, the small band of government leaders, regional civil servants and technocrats who interact with the organization with some regularity. But should more…
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Multi-lateral review of human development progress unfolds in Georgetown
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A multi-party assessment on the progress the Caribbean Region has made in reaching international benchmarks in population and human development, unfolded in Georgetown, Guyana, among the CARICOM Secretariat, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), European Union (EU), the Intra-ACP Migration Facility and the Government…
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crime impacs
CARICOM Member States have taken the next step in enabling the newly-created Regional Integrated Ballistic Information Network (RIBIN) Board to begin its work by electing representatives to serve on the RIBIN Board pursuant to a decision of the 5th Meeting of the Council of Ministers Responsible for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE). The Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory…
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PANCAP to host Bi-National Commission on health for Guyana & Suriname
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) in collaboration with the German International Cooperation (GIZ), EPOS Health Management and Ministry of Health Guyana will host a Bi-National Commission for Collaboration on Health for Guyana and Suriname from 11-13 July, 2013 in Georgetown, Guyana. The three day meeting to be held at the Guyana…
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Institutional Collaboration the Way Forward for EPA Implementation
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The out-going Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Ivan Ogando Lora, has lauded the “spirit of cooperation” underpinning the development of National Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Plans in the eight regional states that elected to pursue these Plans. Mr…
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Remarks at the Launching of the Caribbean Public Health Organization Dr. The Rt. Hon Denzil Douglas National Academy of the Performing Arts Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Celebrating a triumph of the spirit of regionalism Today we are gathered in this splendid environment of the National Academy of the Performing Arts in Port of Spain to celebrate an extraordinary achievement, the official launching of the Caribbean Public Health Agency. This is indeed a timely gift to the people of the Caribbean Community which marks its 40th anniversary…
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Global security gymnastics
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – It is now nearly six-and-a-half years since Julian Assange and Wikileaks started releasing official government documents, revealing to the publics of the world information deemed to be classified and forbidden from exhibition, because such release might injure the security of particular states and by extension (in the eyes of their governments) the safety of citizens. Up to…
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PM pleased with work of Constitutional Commission
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Prime Minister Perry Christie has praised the work of the Constitutional Commission as he accepted its report on the review of the Bahamas Constitution. “We are so happy to see the emphasis placed by this Commission on consultation with people in our islands, because to too great an extent, because of the capital being here and…
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