In Focus
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CARICOM Secretariat launches solar project for Headquarter’s Building
A project that will see the CARICOM Secretariat’s Headquarters Building in Georgetown, Guyana generating 100 percent of its electricity needs through a Photovoltaic Power Generation System was launched with a sod-turning ceremony on Monday. The Project, being funded by the Government of Japan, will include: Installation of 400 kilowatt of solar photovoltaic power generator to provide electricity to the Secretariat building;A…
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ST. LUCIA-TRADE-St. Lucia to host ACP-EU trade workshop
A three-day meeting aimed at the further development of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and intra-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) trade, competitiveness and diversification gets underway here next week. The January 21-23 meeting, which will also be attended by officials from the European Union, is the culmination of an ACP-EU TradeCom11 Programme, and aims to present and validate the findings of a…
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2020 must yield optimism, determination to transform Region – PM Mottley
“People of the Caribbean Community, it is with a sense of immense pleasure, pride and humility that I greet you at the start of the new year, as the new Chairman of CARICOM. Across our region, 2019 has brought more than its fair share of challenges, and indeed many of them, including the very daunting prospects of the climate crisis,…
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Community made incremental, appreciable progress in 2019 – CARICOM SG
END-OF-YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE It is that season once again when in an atmosphere of joy and peace we can sit back and reflect on the impact of the past year on our lives. It has been a year in which we have made incremental but appreciable progress in our efforts…
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