Press Releases
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CARICOM Governments to increase quality information on the Single Market to CARICOM nationals
CARICOM nationals in six Members States are to benefit from a greater flow of tailored information on the CARICOM Single Market (CSM). This is under a new project that aims to connect nationals with the information they need to work, travel and do business in participating CARICOM countries. Over the next five months, the groundwork for greater information flows and…
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CARICOM and Japan Further Strengthens Relationship
(CARICOM Secretarait, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM and Japan relationship will go a step further this week, when CARICOM Foreign Ministers meet with their Japanese counterpart, the Honourable Fumio Kishida, at the Fourth CARICOM-Japan Ministerial Meeting, on 15 November 2014, in Tokyo, Japan. The CARICOM side will be led by the Honourable Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana and…
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The Council for Trade and Economic Development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) concluded a two-
The Council for Trade and Economic Development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) concluded a two-day meeting on 7 November 2014. Key agenda items were strengthening the operation and effectiveness of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the free movement and the facilitation of travel; engagement with the private sector; external economic and trade relations; and the strategic direction…
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CARICOM, Brazil trade has tripled in a few years: Brazil envoy to CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trade between Brazil and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has tripled in “a few years” since the thrust by Brazil to open resident embassies in every CARICOM Member State. This was relayed by newly accredited Ambassador of Brazil to CARICOM, H.E. Lineu Pupo De Paula, as he presented his credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin…
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Message of Condolence to the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, on the passing of Dr. Myles Munroe (rev)
Dr. Monroe, his wife Ruth, and several others, perished in a plane crash on Sunday in Grand Bahama, The Bahamas. Ambassador LaRocque‘s sentiments were expressed in a message of condolence to the Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Rt. Honourable Perry G. Christie. Here’s the full text of the CARICOM Secretary’s General’s message. “The Caribbean Community has lost one of its…
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COTED to engage private sector on more continuous basis
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Engagement with the private sector and Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on a more continuous basis will be facilitated following a meeting of the Trade Ministerial body that concluded Friday. On the first day of the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the COTED on Thursday, Ministers with responsibility for Trade continued discussions that began…
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CARICOM to hold CSME Labour Stakeholders Workshop
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Employers’ and workers’ associations from across the Region will be sensitized and updated on the CSME regimes for free movement of skills and labour, at a major regional CARICOM and Single Market and Economy (CSME) Labour Stakeholders Workshop, in Dominica, on 10 and 11 November 2014. The two-day workshop which is being convened by…
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Working Towards an AIDS-Free Caribbean at the 13th Annual General Meeting of PANCAP
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) This week, leaders and key decision-makers gathered to strategise and to identify the actions needed to achieve the goals set out by the recently adopted Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) 2014-2018. A recurring theme of the discussions at the 13th Annual general meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) was…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development
Before the beginning of our business here today, I would like to pause to pay tribute to Margaret Kalloo, former Deputy Programme Manager in the Agriculture Unit of the Secretariat. We, at the Secretariat, are in a reflective mode following Margaret’s death last week. Margaret almost single-handedly designed and carried the Regional SPS Programme and through her many years…
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Statement At The Conclusion of the Seventeenth Special Meeting of The Conference of Heads of Government of The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Public Health Challenges Port-Of-Spain Trinidad 4 November, 2014
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in special session in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 November, 2014, for deliberations on the two current public health challenges facing the Community: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); and the Chikungunya outbreak. Heads of Government expressed considerable concern, not just in relation to the possible health impact of the Ebola…
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