Press Releases
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‘Ceaseless efforts’ continue to boost Regional development through CSME – CARICOM Secretary-General
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers with responsibility for Trade began a two-day Meeting on Thursday against the background of greater urgency being attached to consolidating the Community's gains under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Addressing the Opening ceremony of the Fortieth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Thursday morning at the…
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Opening Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Secretary-General, Caribbean Community at The Fortieth Council For Trade and Economic Development (COTED)
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I welcome you all to this Fortieth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). I extend a particularly warm welcome to our Chairman, Minister Claude Hogan who, while not a stranger to this Council, is attending his first COTED as Minister. Today’s welcome is special, given that Montserrat…
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Seven-year Regional statistics capacity-building project launched
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Cdn$19.5M project aimed at building the statistical capacity in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was launched recently in Grenada. The Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC), funded by the Canadian Government, is a seven-year initiative that begins this month. It is geared at strengthening the statistical system of the…
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African Union Commission seeks best practices from CARICOM Secretariat
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has described as “important and historic” a working visit to the Secretariat’s headquarters by a team from the African Union Commission (AUC). The three-day visit, which began on Wednesday, forms part of a comparative study of various multilateral and inter-governmental organisations being conducted by the AU delegation. CARICOM is among integration…
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Statement by the Honourable Gaston Browne MP Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda at the 2015 Summit of the Americas in Panama on 11 April 2015
First, I thank the Government of Panama and President Juan Carlos Varela for their warm hospitality. My delegation and I are honoured to participate in this historic conference in which the entire Americas is represented and certainly to include the delegation of Cuba headed by His Excellency Raul Castro Ruz. My visit to your beautiful country has been a kind…
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Opening Remarks by Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie Prime Minister of The Bahamas and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM At the CARICOM – US Summit Kingston, Jamaica 9 April 2015
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Mr. President, I join my colleague and our host, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, in welcoming you to the Caribbean and this discussion with the Leaders of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM). This meeting is important because it reinforces the obvious, the symbiotic relationship which exists between the United States and the region:…
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Opening Statement by The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, ON, MP Prime Minister of Jamaica, CARICOM-USA Summit, 9th April 2015, Kingston, Jamaica
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Government and people of Jamaica are deeply honoured to host this CARICOM-USA Summit, in Kingston, and to again extend a warm Jamaican welcome to The Honourable Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and to my colleague Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and their…
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Joint Press Release issued by Forum on the Future of the Caribbean Partner Institutions Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. issued April 9, 2015
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Regional and international leaders will gather in Port of Spain from 5 to 7 May 2015 to tackle challenges to Caribbean development and identify strategies for securing a sustainable future. The Forum on the Future of the Caribbean is being co-hosted by The University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of…
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CARICOM Chair wants concrete action from US-CARICOM Summit
The encounter between the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the President of the United States (US), Barack Obama, should mark a new and positive beginning for CARICOM-US relations, according to Chair of CARICOM, the Hon. Perry Christie. In his address to the opening ceremony of the CARICOM-US Summit on Thursday 9 April, the Prime Minister of…
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Statement By The Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit Prime Minister Of Dominica
CARICOM Energy Situation A stark reality for CARICOM countries is that we are dependent on imported oil and petroleum products for more than 90% of our energy services. Though global oil prices are currently at a four‑year low, our importation of oil and oil products have been a major burden on our foreign exchange earnings and have tilted our balance…
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