Year: 2021
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New Ambassador of Belgium to CARICOM Accredited
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque received the Letters of Credence from the new Ambassador of Belgium to CARICOM H.E. Hugo Verbist in a virtual ceremony on Wednesday 23 June 2021. Ambassador Verbist presented remarks during the ceremony. Read the Ambassador’s full remarks here – Remarks by H.E. Hugo Verbist CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque also addressed the ceremony. Read the…
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Address by new Ambassador of Belgium to CARICOM, 23 June 2021
ADDRESS BY HUGO VERBIST ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM TO CARICOM Your Excellency, I am very honored to stand here today, although virtually, to present my letter of introduction by Minister Wilmès as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kingdom of Belgium to the Caribbean Community. I would also like to…
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SG’s Remarks at Accreditation of new Belgian Ambassador to CARICOM
Remarks BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL of The CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, on THE OCCASION of THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY His Excellency HUGO VERBIST Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of the KINGDOM OF BELGIUM TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY Via videoconference Wednesday, 23 JUNE 2021 Your Excellency Hugo Verbist, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kingdom of Belgium to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Mr.…
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USAID AND CARICOM Development Fund sign an MOU to strengthen cooperation
The United States Agency for International Development/Eastern and Southern Caribbean Mission (USAID/ESC) and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Monday, June 21. The signing of the MOU occurred at the offices of the CDF in Barbados. The MOU provides a broad framework for cooperation between the two organizations and strengthening of institutional ties between…
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CARICOM and CITES Secretariats join forces in support of Caribbean Parties’ efforts to improve wildlife trade controls
On June 15, the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) held a workshop on eCITES permit management in support of the implementation of the Convention in the Caribbean region. The workshop aimed to raise awareness of the potential benefits of automated permitting…
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Elizabeth Riley appointed Executive Director of CDEMA
(Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency Press Release) The Chairman of the Council of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), the Honorable Vincent Byron Jr, Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, St Kitts-Nevis, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Elizabeth Riley as Executive Director of the Agency with effect from July 1, 2021. Ms. Riley,…
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Barbados delivers benefits to 88% of its unemployed: CARICOM BUSINESS
Barbados leads the Region in protecting its citizens during the pandemic through unemployment payments, delivering benefits to 88% of unemployed workers, while The Bahamas captured about 26%. That’s the information contained in the World Bank’s report, titled “Employment in Crisis” which asserts that only about one-third of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) offer a national unemployment…
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Capacity building training programme for regional and sub-regional authorities on the safe removal of mercury stockpiles (MAPs)
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is currently providing technical assistance to Parties to implement Articles 4, 10 and 11 of the Minamata Convention on interim storage, disposal of waste in mercury-added products (MAPs) using guidelines from the Minamata Convention. More specifically, through twelve individual consultation meetings, a competency based training action plan is being developed and subsequent training programme with…
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Region needs to strengthen its resolve to advance a green resilient recovery post-COVID-19: CARICOM SG to USAID Climate Change Symposium
“All of us gathered here are well-seized of the fact that climate change and the pandemic, as separate occurrences, are devastating for CARICOM Small Island and Low-lying Coastal Developing States (SIDS). That double threat compounded by the recent eruption of La Soufrière Volcano in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has stretched our limited human and financial resources. “This has been…
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Youth engagement: Intergenerational Dialogue in Latin America and the Caribbean for Biodiversity
In order to strengthen the dialogue and participation process of youth of the region, the ACP MEAs Project represented the CARICOM Secretariat in a panel discussion on issues related to biodiversity and youth empowerment in the Global Framework of Biodiversity Post 2020 on 16 June 2021. The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) for Latin America and the Caribbean held its…
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