Press Releases
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CARICOM Secretariat celebrates World Environment Day 2015
As the Region celebrates World Environment Day 2015, the CARICOM Secretariat is conscious of issues related to the environment and agriculture, particularly sustaining the environment to ensure food and nutrition security for this and future generations. In the accompanying video, Deputy Programme Manager, Agricultural Development, Dr. Ronnie Brathwaite, addresses some of the issues related the environment and agriculture on this…
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CARICOM Declaration For Climate Action
We, the Heads of State and Government of CARICOM Member States, at our Thirty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Barbados , from 2-4 July, 2015, Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires to be urgently addressed by…
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CARICOM Secretary-General mourns death of ‘outstanding’ son of Dominica
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has extended deep sympathy to the Government and people of Dominica and the family of the late former President His Excellency the Honourable Dr. Nicholas J.O. Liverpool, DAH, OCC. In a Message of Condolence to Dominica Prime Minister, the Hon Roosevelt Skerrit, the Secretary-General described…
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Opening Remarks by Amb. Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community At The Inaugural Meeting of the CARICOM-India Joint Commission
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I welcome you all to this Inaugural Meeting of the CARICOM-India Joint Commission, and I extend a particularly warm welcome to you Vice Minister R. Swaminathan and your delegation who have travelled from India to be part of this occasion. This Meeting reaffirms the friendly and cooperative ties between the Caribbean Community…
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CARICOM, India move to enhance relations as Joint Commission meets
The long anticipated inaugural meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-India Joint Commission was held on Tuesday 2 June at the Georgetown, Guyana, Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat. Leading the team from India was Vice Minister and Special Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, His Excellency Mr. R. Swaminathan, who lauded the longstanding relations that existed between CARICOM…
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CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors to connect national, Regional agendas
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors at its inaugural meeting on Saturday 30 May, at the CARICOM Secretariat, placed emphasis on the strategic guidance it will provide to connect national and Regional agendas in the integration architecture. Established in March 2015 through an agreement by CARICOM Heads of Government of CARICOM at their 26th Intercessional…
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His Excellency Picewell Forbes Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Chair of the Inaugural Meeting of the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors
Secretary-General, His Excellency Irwin LaRocque Deputy Secretary-General, Her Excellency Manorma Soeknandan Other members of the CARICOM Secretariat Executive Management Team Colleague Ambassadors Officials of the Secretariat and CARICOM Member States Good Morning, During the Twenty-Sixth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government that was held in Nassau, The Bahamas on 26-27 February 2015, under the chairmanship…
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CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors hold inaugural meeting
When our Heads first considered the proposal for a Committee of Ambassadors, they agreed at that time that the principal focus would be the advancement of the integration process. From where I sit, given what has transpired since, I see the Committee of Ambassadors as having two broad overarching roles, almost a dual personality. On the one hand, as Ambassadors,…
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Suriname elections transparent, free and fair – CARICOM Observer Mission
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE CARICOM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION (CEOM) TO GENERAL ELECTIONS OF SURINAME An eight-member CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) comprising Observers from The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago was stationed in Suriname on the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Suriname to observe that country’s General Elections held on Monday, 25…
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CARICOM congratulates Guyana on 49 years
The Caribbean Community heartily extends congratulations to the Republic of Guyana on the celebration of forty-nine years of independence. During its 49 years of Independence, Guyana has played an active leadership role in fostering regional unity, particularly its prominence in the formation of CARIFTA and CARICOM. Regional integration has consistently been an integral part of Guyana’s development and this…
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