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End of Year Message by the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque
As we end another year in this festive season, it is a time for peace, joy and reflection. In the past year the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has made some significant advances. Agreements have been reached and legal instruments have been signed as the Member States demonstrated their commitment to strengthening integration. As is to be expected the CARICOM Single Market…
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CARICOM and Argentina looking towards closer cooperation
Argentina is offering the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) a platform to engage the global community when it hosts the “Second United Nations High Level Conference on South-South Cooperation, PABA 40” in March next year. It has proposed, as a side-event, a conference with the invited countries and organisations, which are expected to include some of the major economies of the world,…
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2019 ANSA Caribbean Awards Laureates Announced
The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence has named four laureates for 2019 and announced that its Awards ceremony will be held in Barbados on March 30, 2019. The Laureates are: For Arts and Letters, Ms Danielle Dieffenthaller, a Trinidadian television and film producer, director, writer and a passionate advocate for a strong Caribbean film industry; For Entrepreneurship,…
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Prime Minister Harris meets CARICOM Secretary-General ahead of assuming CARICOM Chairmanship and hosting 30th Inter-Sessional
Bassterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, OPM – Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris met today, Monday, December 17th, 2018, with the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in the Office of the Prime Minister at Government Headquarters. Prime Minister Harris said it was a special privilege to receive a visit from CARICOM’s Secretary-General. Chef de Cabinet in…
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REGIONAL STATEMENT ON THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) SPECIAL REPORT ON THE IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS (1.5 °C SPECIAL REPORT)
We, the Ministers responsible for addressing climate change in the Caribbean Community: Recalling the escalated climate change impacts that the region has experienced in recent years with warming of 1.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, including the devastating impacts from hurricanes and tropical storms and other weather-related extreme events, and the adverse effects these impacts have had on particularly vulnerable…
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CARICOM SG holds talks with Aruba on Associate Membership
Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque met on Wednesday with Prime Minister of Aruba Hon Evelyn Wever-Croes on Associate Membership in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for the Dutch Territory. The Secretary-General will also visit Curacao and St. Maarten this week. CARICOM Heads of Government earlier this year mandated the Secretary-General to begin the process of negotiations with the Dutch Territories in order…
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Statement – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on CSME
Conceived as an instrument to facilitate economic development, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is the manifestation of the intent to deepen the integration process that began with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973. That Treaty was later revised and the Community is now governed by the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas Establishing the Caribbean…
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Value of Early Warning Systems to the Region highlighted at Climate Change Conference
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been highlighting the importance of early warning systems to the hurricane prone region, at COP 24 – the Climate Change Conference taking place in Katowice, Poland. The CARICOM Secretariat’s Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development Dr Douglas Slater joined an international panel discussion at the Conference on Tuesday to address the question, “After the…
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Trinidad and Tobago signs CARIFESTA XIV Host Country Agreement.
As the excitement builds in the lead up to this country’s hosting of the Caribbean’s premiere Festival of the Arts in 2019, Dr. the Honourable Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago signed the Host Country Agreement for CARIFESTA XIV with Ambassador Irwin La Rocque, Secretary General of CARICOM. The signing took place on Tuesday December 4th, 2018 at…
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Statement to mark CARICOM-Cuba Day, 8 December 2018
The 8th of December 2018 marks the Forty-Sixth Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, the four CARICOM countries independent at that time, and Cuba. That historic and courageous act of 8 December 1972 has grown over the years into a strong fraternal relationship between all the Member States of the Caribbean…
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