Jamaica
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CARICOM Statement on the violent attack on building housing Jamaica’s Consulate in Haiti
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) notes with deep concern the report that the Sun Auto Car Dealership in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, owned and operated by the Honorary Consul for our Member State, Jamaica, and which houses the Consulate, was set ablaze and ransacked by criminal gangs on Monday 12 June 2023. This act of violence has sadly caused the indefinite suspension of…
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COMMUNIQUE: Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), Kingston, Jamaica, 16-17 May 2023
The Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Kingston, Jamaica on 16-17 May 2023, under the Chairmanship of Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica. The COFCOR was attended by the Honourable E.P. Chet Greene, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture,…
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Remarks by Senator the Hon Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica, on the occasion of the Eleventh UK-Caribbean Forum, Kingston, Jamaica, 18 May 2023
Your Excellency Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community and CARIFORUM;The Right Honourable James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and my co-Chair;Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegation of the Caribbean Community, the Republic of Cuba and the Dominican Republic;Delegation members (recognising CARICOM…
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Remarks by Senator the Hon Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, and Chair of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) on the occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of COFCOR, Kingston, Jamaica, 16 May 2023
Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Honourable E.P. Chet Greene, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda and Outgoing Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations; Colleague Ministers of the Caribbean Community; Your Excellency Takei Shunsuke, State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan; Your Excellency Juan Fernández-Trigo, Secretary of State for Latin America, the…
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CARICOM Member States deepening cooperation to fight crime; Ministers of National Security zero in on firearms trafficking
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deepening cooperation among Member States to ensure the safety of the Region as increasing and new forms of crimes are occurring. CARICOM Ministerial Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE)met in Trelawny, Jamaica, on Thursday 6 October for the 24th Meeting of the. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security of Jamaica, the…
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Remarks by Dr. Hon. Horace Chang, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security of Jamaica, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) to the 24th Meeting of the CONSLE, 6 October 2022, Jamaica
Honourable Ministers and Heads of Delegation Mrs Alison Drayton, Assistant Secretary-General CARICOM Lt. Col. Michael Jones, Executive Director, CARICOM IMPACS; Commodore Errington Shurland, Executive Director, Regional Security System Distinguished Delegates Good Morning. Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my esteemed honour to address you in my capacity as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of National Security and Law Enforcement at…
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