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Prolonged Drought Leaves Caribbean Farmers Broke and Worried
CASTRIES, Jun 2 2015 (IPS) – St. Lucian farmer Anthony Herman was hoping that next year he’d manage to recoup some of the losses he sustained after 70 per cent of his cashew crop withered and died in the heat of the scorching southern Caribbean sun. But on June 1, the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season which coincides with the…
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How Caribbean youth are turning digital content into business
Role-Models are Essential When you talk with Caribbean youth about the possibilities and hope that working online offers, you have to give them real-life examples to hang their dreams on and help them to understand that it can be done and that others are doing it. So in my previous article on digital literacy, DuttyBerry and Wally British, two youths…
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CARICOM, India move to enhance relations as Joint Commission meets
The long anticipated inaugural meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-India Joint Commission was held on Tuesday 2 June at the Georgetown, Guyana, Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat. Leading the team from India was Vice Minister and Special Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, His Excellency Mr. R. Swaminathan, who lauded the longstanding relations that existed between CARICOM…
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CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors to connect national, Regional agendas
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors at its inaugural meeting on Saturday 30 May, at the CARICOM Secretariat, placed emphasis on the strategic guidance it will provide to connect national and Regional agendas in the integration architecture. Established in March 2015 through an agreement by CARICOM Heads of Government of CARICOM at their 26th Intercessional…
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Three Regional Heads attend new UWI Vice-Chancellor’s installation
Three of the Region’s Heads of Government were part of a distinguished audience which witnessed the installation of Professor Sir Hillary Beckles as the eight Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Saturday 30 May, 2015. Prime Minister of The Bahamas and Chairman of CARICOM, Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of Barbados, Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart…
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High-powered delegation for UNESCO Slave Route Conference
The National Commission for UNESCO has announced plans to host a Sub-Regional Slave Route Conference that will be based on the theme: ‘Beyond Reparations: Strengthening the Slave Route Project in the Caribbean Region’. The Conference will be held from 7 -8 July, 2015, at the St. Kitts Marriott Hotel, and will bring together experts and representatives from across the Caribbean to…
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CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors an opportunity to impact efficiency and effectiveness – Chair
Excellencies, the formation of this Committee provides an opportunity for us to greatly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of the CARICOM Secretariat and its related agencies. As Ambassadors, we have a unique position in having direct contact with our Heads of Government and Cabinets, as well as with the technical advisors and shareholders. We must therefore maximize these unique positions…
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His Excellency Picewell Forbes Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Chair of the Inaugural Meeting of the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors
Secretary-General, His Excellency Irwin LaRocque Deputy Secretary-General, Her Excellency Manorma Soeknandan Other members of the CARICOM Secretariat Executive Management Team Colleague Ambassadors Officials of the Secretariat and CARICOM Member States Good Morning, During the Twenty-Sixth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government that was held in Nassau, The Bahamas on 26-27 February 2015, under the chairmanship…
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CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors hold inaugural meeting
When our Heads first considered the proposal for a Committee of Ambassadors, they agreed at that time that the principal focus would be the advancement of the integration process. From where I sit, given what has transpired since, I see the Committee of Ambassadors as having two broad overarching roles, almost a dual personality. On the one hand, as Ambassadors,…
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Five CARICOM Member States sign visa waiver agreements with EU
On 28 May, the EU signed short-stay visa waiver agreements with Saint Lucia, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Republic of Vanuatu, the independent State of Samoa and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, at a ceremony that took place in Brussels. On behalf of the EU, the agreements were signed by Ms. Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Parliamentary…
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