Press Releases
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Guyana, SVG win male, female CARICOM 10k title
Four time CARICOM 10k winner Cleveland Forde of Guyana copped his fifth title in the latest edition of the CARICOM 10k Race on Sunday morning (July 3) in his native Guyana. He completed the race in 32:39 minutes. Linda McDonald brought victory to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the female category with a time of 37:57. The second place in…
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Co-hosting CARICOM Summit symbolises Guyana’s commitment to integration – Guyana Foreign Minister
Guyana’s co-hosting of the upcoming Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM symbolises a continued commitment to its involvement in deliberations that support the processes and institutions of integration. This is the view of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana, the Hon. Carl Greenidge who sat down for an interview with the CARICOM Secretariat ahead of the…
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CARICOM SG, youth hold wide-ranging discussions
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is currently engaging the Region’s youth on a wide range of subjects. The 5th social media interaction, hosted by CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, is being held ahead of the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM which opens Monday in Georgetown, Guyana. The engagement is anchored at the CARICOM Secretariat.The special focus…
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SG welcomes Nicaragua to ‘CARICOM family’
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has emphasised that small states working together could make a difference. Speaking at a ceremony accepting the credentials of His Excellency Valdrack L. Jaentschke as Nicaragua’s Ambassador to CARICOM, Ambassador LaRocque stressed that working together in regional, hemispheric and international fora could ensure that the impediments to the development of small…
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Commonwealth Secretary-General to attend CARICOM summit
Climate change, indebtedness, protecting migrant remittances and banking systems, and the consequences of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union on small and vulnerable economies are priority concerns for the Commonwealth Secretary-General as she heads to Guyana for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Conference of Heads of Government. Twelve of the member countries sitting around the table at this meeting…
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Heads of Government to tackle de-risking, BREXIT
When CARICOM Heads of Government meet in Georgetown next week, they will do so against the background of a number of threats to the Region's financial and economic stability. Chief among these are the threats posed by international banks limiting or terminating their relationships with regional financial institutions, and the yet to be determined implications of the British decision to…
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Security, economics high agenda issues at 37th Heads of Government Conference 4-6 July 2016, Guyana
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government will meet for their 37th Regular Meeting on 4-6 July 2016, in Georgetown, Guyana, at the Guyana Pegasus Hotel. In the search for opportunities and regional solutions to challenges, the Meeting will advance matters pertaining to regional security – economic and otherwise; and the social well being of the approximately 16 million people who…
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Building the CARICOM Communications Network
As efforts continue to develop a network of CARICOM Communications professionals, a sub-group mainly from Caribbean Community Institutions in Barrbados and the CARICOM Secretariat recommitted to closer collaboration during a recent lunch-meeting at CDB Headquarters, Barbados. The get-together was a spin-off from an earlier on-line meeting of professionals across the Community, in which the Communications operatives agreed, among other things, that: There…
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Contributions to Advancing Medical Tourism in the Federation And Advances in Human Health
Lower Bourryeau Estate, St. Kitts— The St. Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation and I have provided advice for the development of medical tourism in the Federation and the development of new therapies that will eventually be available to people throughout the world. Neither the Foundation or I are participants, but we have provided advice to ensure that any experimental treatments are…
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CARICOM 10K Meet gets underway: Differently able to be a part
The Spirit of CARICOM will come alive this Sunday, 3 July 2016, as the CARICOM 10K Meet gets underway at 6 a.m. Athletes from several CARICOM States will criss-cross the streets of Greater Georgetown to observe this annual CARICOM tradition, which takes place ahead of the Regular Meeting of the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government, usually in the host…
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