Areas of Work

  • September 8, 2005
    511

    REGIONAL INTERNET GOVERNANCE TASK FORCE AMONG GEORGETOWN FORUM RECOMMENDATIONS

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists from the Caribbean concluded their recent Internet Governance Forum in Georgetown, Guyana, with a number of recommendations aimed at strengthening the Region’s involvement in the governance and use of the Internet. High among the recommendations emanating from the Forum is the establishment of a regional Internet Governance Task Force or…

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  • August 26, 2005
    525

    CARICOM INITIATES REGIONAL POSITION ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE

      (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues to focus on the full utilisation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the shaping of regional economies, ICT experts in the Region are taking steps to ensure that CARICOM’s concerns at advanced at international Internet Governance (IG) fora. In view of the growing awareness of the social, economic,…

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  • July 31, 2005
    464

    Barbados’ Trade Minister To Play Key Role In WTO Ministerial Summit

    BARBADOS’ TRADE MINISTER TO PLAY KEY ROLE IN WTO MINISTERIAL SUMMIT CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados Dame Billie Miller was elected by the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council Friday (July 29) as a Vice-Chair in the bureau of the Chair of the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in Hong…

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  • July 5, 2005
    690

    DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MUST BE CUSHIONED IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT

      (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are leading by example in streamlining the required arrangements to cushion any fall out that may occur as a result of the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM). Speaking with reporters following his brief to CARICOM Heads of Government in Saint Lucia on Monday 4 July, the…

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  • June 28, 2005
    502

    REGIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY BEING MAPPED OUT FOR CWC 2007

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean prepares to host thousands of visitors expected to flock to the Region for its Cricket World Cup 2007, security concerns are high on the CARICOM agenda. This is in light of the drastic changes in travel requirements that have taken place in the post “9/11” world. Saint Lucia’s Minister of National Security the…

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  • June 27, 2005
    403

    NO EXTENSION FOR CSME DEADLINE.

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that are experiencing setbacks in being Single Market ready by December 2005 need to speak up now so as receive resources necessary to assist them in meeting the deadline. This is the word from CARICOM Secretary-General His Excellency Edwin Carrington, as he addressed a Media Clinic in Saint Lucia…

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  • June 26, 2005
    385

    United Nations High Representative for LDCs, Landlocked and SIDS concerned that drastic cuts in sugar price could hurt fragile economies of SIDS

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  • June 23, 2005
    660

    Caribbean Concerned Over EC Sugar Reform Proposals

    CARIBBEAN CONCERNED OVER EC SUGAR REFORM PROPOSALS Steep Price Cuts to have Devastating Effect on Region’s Fragile Economies CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The European Commission unveiled plans Wednesday (June 22) for an overhaul of the Common Market Organisation for sugar. The Commission reform proposals cut guaranteed prices, totalling 39 percent in the price of white sugar over a period of…

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  • June 6, 2005
    421

    Milestone for Small Economies in Global Trade Talks

    MILESTONE FOR SMALL ECONOMIES IN GLOBAL TRADE TALKS CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – “The proposal represents a milestone for small economies in global trade talks,” said the Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, reacting to a communication (WT/COMTD/SE/W/13/Rev.1-An Approach to Framing Responses to the Trade-Related Problems of Small Economies) tabled by twenty-two countries at…

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  • May 21, 2005
    434

    COFAP DELIBERATES ON SINGLE ECONOMY FRAMEWORK

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Progress reports on the harmonisation of a range of Instruments required to complement and give effect to the macro-economic policy framework for the Single Economy were considered by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers attending the Tenth Meeting of CARICOM's Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) in Georgetown on Saturday 21 May. The Single Economy is one…

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