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CARICOM SG attends Special Signing ceremony for Paris Climate Change Agreement
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has joined CARICOM Heads and other government representatives at UN Headquarters in New York for today’s Special Signing Ceremony for the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Ambassador LaRocque was also in Paris to coordinate CARICOM’s campaign as the Region sought to get its red line climate change issues represented in the final agreement. The CARICOM campaign,…
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CARICOM Member States to be among signatories to Paris Climate Change Agreement
Several CARICOM Member States will join more than 150 countries across the world which will begin to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at a special Ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York today. The Signing Ceremony takes place on the first day that the Agreement will open for signatures. It will remain open for one year.…
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Effectively coordinate action to face global challenges – COTED Chair urges Community
A redefinition of the national priorities “to fit CARICOM” so that the Regional integration movement could be more effective was necessary to respond to the challenges it currently faced, the Hon Alva Baptiste, Minister of External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of Saint Lucia, said on Thursday. Minister Baptiste, who is chairing the Forty-Second Meeting of the Council for Trade…
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CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General wants more sensitisation of border officials
More sensitisation needed to be done among Regional border officials on the rules and procedures for the treatment of nationals as they travelled throughout the Community, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan, PhD., said Thursday. Delivering remarks Thursday morning at the Opening Ceremony of the Forty-Second Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Amb. Soeknandan noted that the…
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CARICOM Secretariat partners with Guyana for Girls in ICT Day
The CARICOM Secretariat, in collaboration with the Guyana Ministry of Education and other partners, will host a number of activities in Guyana from April 28– 29, 2016, to celebrate Girls in ICT. Among the activities that will be held are workshops on ICT related topics, Open/Career Day at various public and private sector locations, television and radio features on women and girls…
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Caribbean Tech Community Gathers in Montego Bay
MONTEGO BAY—Anyone interested in the development of the Internet in Caribbean may have already heard of CaribNOG, the Caribbean Network Operators Group. Over the past decade, this volunteer-based community of computer engineers has grown into a formidable influencer in the regional technology arena. Today, its twice-yearly regional gatherings are among the most highly anticipated events on the Caribbean’s tech calendar. CaribNOG facilitates education and training for those…
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CEP says it will not create new crisis in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) says it will not create “a new crisis” in Haiti by rushing ahead to stage the third round of the presidential elections on April 24. “There is no electoral environment favorable in Haiti at this time and for the third time, the second round is postponed indefinitely,” said Richardson Dumel the…
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COTED convenes Thursday: CSME, correspondent banking in focus
Matters that impact on the economic health of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) come under focus in Georgetown, Guyana, when the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) meets Thursday and Friday. Regional Ministers who hold responsibility for Trade will hold discussions on a range of matters including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and treatment of nationals travelling in…
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West Indies Legends call for dissolution of ‘obsolete’ WICB
A host of West Indies legends including Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Wes Hall and Andy Robertshave called upon the WICB to dissolve the board, in line with the CARICOM cricket review panel’s recommendation, and appoint an interim committee as part of the structural reforms that would enable the region’s cricket to “develop and flourish”. On April 14 in Grenada, converging…
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CARICOM Reparations Relay Launched in Barbados – Reparations Baton and Torch Will Travel Throughout the Region in 2016
The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) has launched an International Reparations Relay & Rally Initiative in Barbados that in coming months will take a ‘reparations baton’ and ‘reparations torch’ from one CARICOM country to the other. The baton and torch will be presented to the national reparations commissions across the region at youth rallies organized under the banner ‘Roots, Rock, Reggae,…
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