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  • Photo of Change citizens’ perception of security and law enforcement sector- Ramjattan

    Change citizens’ perception of security and law enforcement sector- Ramjattan

    Guyana’s Vice President and Minister of Public Security, Hon. Khemraj Ramjattan  on Monday, 21 November, zeroed in on the need to address  Community citizens’ perception of the security and law enforcement sector. The Minister was delivering remarks to the  official opening of the  Seventeenth Meeting of the Council for Security and Law Enforcement at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.…

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  • Photo of Belize’s Private Sector and Agricultural Producers Get More CSME-Aware

    Belize’s Private Sector and Agricultural Producers Get More CSME-Aware

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat presses ahead with its public education drive to ensure that vital sectors know about the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and its significant benefits. On Wednesday, November 23, a one-day CSME sensitization workshop will be hosted in San Ignacio, Belize. Approximately 40 participants from private sector entities and rural organizations will convene at the…

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  • Photo of CARICOM electoral mission to Haiti conducts initial assessments

    CARICOM electoral mission to Haiti conducts initial assessments

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Election Observer Mission (CEOM) is on the ground in Haiti conducting initial assessments of critical elements of the presidential and legislative electoral process. The CEOM, led by Dr. Steve Surujbally, the Chairman of Guyana’s Elections Commission, arrived in the French speaking CARICOM Member State on Wednesday 16 November to assess the pre-election environment.  Haitians will cast their ballots…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Member States push climate change concerns at COP 22

    CARICOM Member States push climate change concerns at COP 22

    The Heads of CARICOM Member States’ delegations to the climate change meeting COP 22 in Morocco underscored the Region’s position that climate change was not an obscure matter but an existential one. Here are some Statements made by the Heads of Government and other Heads of Delegations to the Joint High-Level Segment of COP 22.

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  • Photo of CARICOM to monitor November 20 rescheduled elections in Haiti

    CARICOM to monitor November 20 rescheduled elections in Haiti

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be monitoring the Presidential Elections in Haiti, rescheduled to Sunday 20 November 2016. The elections which were initially scheduled for Sunday 9 October 2016, were postponed after Hurricane Matthew pummeled Haiti and left in its wake death, destruction and displacement of people. CARICOM’s Electoral Observer Mission will be on the ground in Haiti from 16-23…

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  • CARICOM convenes 17th Meeting of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement

    The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM’s) Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) meets for its 17th meeting on 21 November 2016, at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown. Under the chairmanship of Barbados’ Attorney-General and Minister of  Home Affairs, Hon. Adriel Brathwaite, QC, MP,  CARICOM  Ministers with responsibility for  National Security are   expected to consider for approval,  the…

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  • Photo of Work together to achieve bigger goal – Chair of COTED

    Work together to achieve bigger goal – Chair of COTED

    The time is ripe for the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to “really bring economic trade and development to the Region” through public-private partnerships and strengthened institutional relationships within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). These were the views Her Excellency Sieglien Burleson, Minister of Trade and Industry of Suriname, and Chair of the Forty-Third Meeting of COTED, expressed on Thursday…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Ministerial Briefing sets stage for final week at COP 22

    CARICOM Ministerial Briefing sets stage for final week at COP 22

    CARICOM Ministerial and technical delegates met in a strategy session Monday as the critical second week of the Climate Change conference, COP 22 got going in Marrakech, Morocco. CARICOM Member States are among the more than 100 nations across the globe which have signed and/or ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change ahead of it coming into force on 4 November 2016.…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Energy Month gets going

    CARICOM Energy Month gets going

    CARIBBEAN citizens will, over the next few weeks, have the opportunity to get in the know on how to cut their fuel costs while exchanging ideas  on solutions to the energy challenges facing the Caribbean. All this, courtesy of the observation of November as CARICOM Energy Month (CEM), which is being celebrated under the theme “Sustainable Energy for Sustainable Development”…

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  • Photo of CARICOM congratulates US President-elect

    CARICOM congratulates US President-elect

    Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica has congratulated President-elect of the United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump on his victory in last Tuesday’s Presidential elections. The CARICOM Chairman extended best wishes to Mr. Trump for a successful tenure and said he would welcome the opportunity to engage at the earliest opportunity. Mr.…

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