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CARICOM Statement – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2023
There are an estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples in the world, living across 90 countries, and representing an estimated 7,000 languages and 5,000 different cultures. The Latin America and Caribbean region has one of the largest indigenous populations in the world with an estimated 800 different indigenous populations. Today, CARICOM salutes our Indigenous Peoples, who are integral to our rich…
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CARICOM and IICA confirm alliance and prioritise actions to combat food and nutrition insecurity and improve the Climate Resilience of Agriculture in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) reached an agreement to prioritize their joint actions in this region, with a view to strengthening the food and nutrition security of the population and the climate resilience of the agricultural sector. The agreement was signed during a visit by Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of CARICOM, to the…
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CARICOM congratulates Jamaica on its Sixty-First Anniversary of Independence
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Jamaica on attaining its Sixty-First Anniversary of Independence. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett extended the Community’s congratulations to the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness: “Most Honourable Prime Minister: On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I am pleased to extend heartfelt congratulations to the Government and people of Jamaica on…
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Mega concert in honour of CARICOM
(National Cultural Foundation Barbados) Barbados has earmarked Monday, July 31, as the day dedicated to celebrating Caribbean unity with the CARICOM 50th Anniversary Concert! Like many of our neighbouring countries, the Government is staging the concert which will showcase the best in Bajan and Caribbean talent featuring a mixture of different genres of music, spoken word pieces, dance and comedy.…
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Remarks by Dr Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General, CARICOM, at Opening Ceremony of Fifth International Conference “Transition and Trajectories in Pan African Development” Pan-African Enterprise Research Council, 26 July 2023
Honourable Ministers Distinguished ladies and gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to greet the distinguished gathering on the occasion of this Fifth International Conference of the Pan-African Enterprise Research Council. Congratulations to the Council on your continued commitment to quality research and advocacy regarding the participation of people of African descent in business and enterprise, elimination of discrimination and inequality,…
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Legal Drafting E-Learning Programme
The Capacity Building in Legal Drafting Project, financed by the European Union under the European Development Fund-Caribbean Regional Indicative Programme (EDF-CRIP) and executed by ARCA Consortium, on behalf of the CARIFORUM Directorate, seeks to build the capacity of CARIFORUM States in the area of treaty and legislative drafting through training and sponsorship. Accordingly, the Project imparted expert training in this…
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Joint Press Release – SELA, ACS, SICA, CAN, ALADI, and CARICOM
The Secretariats of regional and integration organizations: Latin American Economic System – SELA, Association of Caribbean States – ACS, Central American Integration System – SICA, Andean Community – CAN, Latin American Integration Association – ALADI and Caribbean Community – CARICOM; participating as observers of the III Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European…
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Six Heads of Government on sub-committee to define regional approach to COP28
Heads of Government of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are on a sub-committee that has been established to chart the regional approach to COP28. Heads of Government set up the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee during the just-concluded 45th Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Given the critical…
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PM Keith Rowley Chairs CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket
CARICOM Heads of Government will meet with representatives of Cricket West Indies next week to discuss how to better “position the game in the Caribbean so that we could come back to the glorious days”, CARICOM Chairman, the Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, announced on Wednesday. At a press conference at the conclusion of the Forty-Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Heads…
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Free movement for all people – CARICOM Heads decide at historic meeting
“We believe that this is a fundamental part of the integration architecture, and at 50, we could not leave Trinidad and Tobago and not speak about the core of the regional integration movement, that is, people’s ability to move freely within the Caribbean Community. I think we would have served and we have served the Community well at this meeting…
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