In Focus
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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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CARICOM Secretariat, CCREEE Launch Energy Innovation Challenge
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) have launched the CARICOM Energy Innovation Challenge. The Challenge – which is open to teams of primary and secondary school students – invites submissions detailing students’ interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) and the importance of a STEAM lab to…
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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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CARICOM signs on to Mechanism of Montevideo following talks in Uruguay on situation in Venezuela
The governments of Mexico, Uruguay and CARICOM, in response to the call of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, agree that the most appropriate way to address the complex situation that prevails in Venezuela is through dialogue for a negotiation, from a position of respect for International Law and Human Rights. The historical stance of our countries…
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CARIFORUM Capacity Building Intervention starts: Youth investment, policies and prevention programmes, partnerships emphasised
The importance of investing in youth, including treatment and rehabilitation for those who are using and addicted to alcohol and other drugs, was underscored at the Official Opening of the Regional Adolescent Training Workshops on 4 February 2019 in Trinidad and Tobago. To this end, partnerships, relevant policies and adolescents’ prevention programmes, among others, were emphasised by speakers who represented…
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CARIFORUM Regional Adolescent Training Workshops opens: Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation critical to advance economic development
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Assistant Secretary-General (ASG), Dr. Douglas Slater, emphasised the critical link between human resource development and economic development and, in this regard, the importance of treatment and rehabilitation for persons with problematic drug use and misuse. The ASG was speaking at the Opening of the Regional Adolescent Training Workshop earlier today, in Trinidad and Tobago. “Human resource…
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Statement on second day of visit to the UN by Delegation of CARICOM Member States
On Tuesday, 30 January 2019, the delegation of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) comprising Dr the Hon. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of S.Kitts and Nevis (Chairman of CARICOM) and Dr the Hon. Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, the Hon. Peter David, Foreign Minister of Grenada, H.E. Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General, as well as the Permanent Representatives of these…
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