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Suriname reaffirms commitment to CARICOM
The Republic of Suriname has reaffirmed its commitment to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) through a new ambassador who was accredited by the CARICOM Secretary-General on Wednesday 30 January 2020. The accreditation ceremony took place at the Georgetown, Guyana Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat. In accepting the Letter of Credence of Her Excellency Ms. Chairme Haakmat, CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque…
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CARICOM Health Ministers to hold Emergency Meeting on deadly Coronavirus
The Region’s Health Ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Monday 3 February on the novel Coronavirus which the World Health Organisation has now classified as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The novel Coronavirus outbreak which originated in Wahun City, Hubei Province, China, started in December 2019 and, up to this week about eight thousand cases have been…
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Services Sector key to CARICOM’s future – Barbados Min. Sandra Husbands
The importance of the Services sector to the future of the Caribbean was highlighted Friday as CARICOM Ministers began a day-long consideration of matters that are key to moving the sector forward. The Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Services got underway at the CARICOM Secretariat. The Services sector is the largest and fastest…
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New Chair and Vice Chair elected to PANCAP-CVC-COIN Technical Advisory Group..
(PANCAP Coordinating Unit Press Release): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) has extended congratulations to the new Chair and Vice Chair of the PANCAP-CVC-COIN Technical Advisory Group. A press release from the PANCAP Coordinating Unit said Mr. Roger McLean and Dr. Gail Gajadhar were elected Chair and Vice-Chair respectively of the PANCAP-CVC-COIN Technical Advisory Group for the Multi-Country Caribbean Global…
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The UWI Activates Coronavirus Response Plan
Today, The UWI will host a Vice-Chancellor’s Forum which will offer informed analysis and perspectives. The programme will include remarks from Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and feature UWI health experts along with Dr Joy St. John, CARPHA’s Executive Director.It begins at 1:00 pm (Jamaica)/2:00 pm (Eastern Caribbean) at The UWI Regional Headquarters, and will be carried live on UWItv’s…
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CARICOM expresses condolences with passing of SVG’s former Governor General
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has extended sympathy to the Government and people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on the death of the country’s former Governor-General, Sir Frederick Ballantyne. Sir Frederick, who served as Governor General from 2002 to July 2019, died last Thursday at the age of 83. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in a message of condolence to…
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CDEMA, UNOCHA host data, information management training in Barbados
(Barbados Today) In efforts to improve collaboration and coordination of information and data management among ministries and agencies before, during and after a disaster event, members of the national disaster management system in Barbados and given its role as a sub-regional focal point for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) benefited from a data and information management training workshop,…
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Climate change is a planetary emergency – how can we avert disaster?
The Earth has coped relatively well with emissions so far.But ‘tipping points’ are being reached.Read the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report (World Economic Forum) While politics continue to cripple efforts to fight the planetary emergency, the science remains as unequivocal and irrefutable as ever. We have already crossed a number of ‘tipping points’ in the Earth system; vital thresholds beyond…
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Ambassador Dr. Kurleigh King
The time has come to pull many strands in this paper together in order to form a good appreciation of where the Caribbean Community stood when Dr. Kurleigh King became its Secretary-General. It will be recalled that the high hopes of the Community had been dampened by the effects of the global recession triggered by the increases in the price…
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CARPHA: Coronovirus risk ‘low’ here but ‘be prepared’
(Barbados Today) The risk of a new, mysterious strain of Coronavirus to the Caribbean is “low” but public health officials need to be prepared for a possible outbreak here, said Dr Joy St John, the former chief medical officer of Barbados who is now the head of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that…
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