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CARICOM had strong team at ocean biodiversity treaty negotiations
CARICOM’s strong negotiating team for the just-agreed Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction treaty (BBNJ) comprised representatives of the Region’s Permanent Missions to the United Nations and capital base experts supported by scientific and legal experts drawn from the regional institutions (the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (and the University of the West Indies) with the CARICOM Secretariat providing technical,…
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Conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
March 4, 2023 marked a historic moment for the world’s ocean. After a marathon of intense, sometimes overnight negotiations, Member States of the United Nations agreed on the provisions of a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (the ocean biodiversity treaty). With this treaty, a new chapter for equity in the…
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Treaty launches new chapter for equity in world’s ocean
March 4, 2023 marked a historic moment for the world’s oceans. After a marathon of intense, sometimes overnight negotiations, Member States of the United Nations agreed on the provisions of the ocean biodiversity treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine Biodiversity of areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). With this treaty, a new chapter for equity in the world’s…
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Message from Dr Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023
On 8 March 2023, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), a special observance that was adopted by the United Nations 48 years ago in 1975, during the International Women’s Year. The first International Women’s Day observance occurred well over a century ago with the gathering numbering over a million women…
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Remarks by Dr Carla N Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community on the occasion of the launch of the CARICOM Skilled Workers Programme, CARICOM, Secretariat/Videoconference, 6 March 2023
Your Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM; Your Excellency George Talbot, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Guyana; Ms. Volika Jaikishun, Deputy Chief Education Officer, Development, Ministry of Education, Guyana; Ms. Renee…
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CARICOM Skilled Workers Programme to be launched with Secondary School Teacher Attachments
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat launches a CARICOM Skilled Workers Programme on Monday, 6 March, 2023 at 10.30 am, with a short hybrid ceremony at its Headquarters in Georgetown Guyana. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr. Carla Barnett, the Head of Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM, Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska and Guyana’s Ambassador to…
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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Statement on Mission to Haiti
In keeping with the decision of CARICOM Heads of Government at their 44th Regular Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas, 15-17 February 2023, a CARICOM Special Mission went to Haiti today February 27, 2023 for a one day working visit. The mission, led by Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, met with the interim Prime Minister of Haiti,…
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CARICOM Reparations Commission and UWI Centres welcome Royal African Delegation
The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica W.I. Monday, February 27, 2023—A high-level delegation of royal African traditional leaders from AIDO Network International, will visit Jamaica from February 28 to March 6 for a series of activities hosted by the CARICOM Reparations Commission, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies (UWI), and its Centre for Reparation Research and PJ Patterson…
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CARIFORUM Legal Drafting E-Learning Programme begins
The CARIFORUM Legal Drafting E-Learning Programme has begun and we are please to share the details. For further details please contact the CARIFORUM Directorate at admin.epaunit@caricom.org.
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Heads seeking collaborative approach on regional transportation
CARICOM Heads of Government will explore working with companies servicing the Caribbean to find a solution to the current transportation woes facing the Community. “We’re looking at what kind of construct we can bring into play, recognising that there are existing companies that are servicing our islands, and how we can work with those existing entities to seek to alleviate…
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