Press Releases
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Statement By The Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin Larocque On The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) condemns the killing of three Israeli teenagers and the revenge killing of a young Palestinian. The Community is deeply concerned by the resulting escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinian territory of Gaza with the continuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the firing of Palestinian rockets targeting Israeli cities.…
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Address Delivered By Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chairman Of The Caricom Reparations Commission, House Of Commons, Parliament Of Great Britain, Committee Room 14, Thursday, July 16, 2014
Madam Chair, the distinguished member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott, other distinguished members of the House of Lords, and House of Commons, Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corp, colleagues at the head table, Ladies and Gentlemen. I speak this evening, in this honourable chamber of the House of Commons, as Chairman of the Caricom Commission…
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Migrant Awareness Raising Sessions Held in Guyana
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The first of a series of training sessions intended to heighten awareness of risk factors affecting mobile and migrant populations in Guyana was held here on 24 and 25 June 2014. The participants of these sessions include those who interface with migrant populations—healthcare workers, immigration officers, members of the police force and military, staff…
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PAHO and UNAIDS Convene Meetings in Georgetown
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and youth across the region was a major agenda item when the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) convened a three-day meeting in Georgetown last week. The meeting also…
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Top Priorities for Implementation Strategic Plan for the Community (2015-2019): Repositioning CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Strategic Plan for the Community, approved by CARICOM Heads at their 35th Regular Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda July 1-4 2014, identifies eight integrated Strategic Priorities for the Community over the five-year period, 2015-2019, and key areas of interventions for each. The integrated Strategic Priorities are: Building Economic Resilience; Social Resilience; Environmental Resilience;…
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Acceptance Speech at The 35th Session of the Heads of Government Meeting CARICOM Antigua and Barbuda Tuesday, July 1, 2014
I commence with a heartfelt recognition of the plight of the young high-school girls of Chibok, Borno State, abducted in April of this year, the two teenaged Indian girls raped and hanged in Uttar Pradesh in May and the 25 year old pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death in May for marrying against her family’s wishes. The poem of Mahadai…
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Strategic Plan for the Caribbean Community 2015 – 2019: Repositioning CARICOM
Why a new strategic plan and what do we hope to achieve A wide canvassing of views across the Caribbean Community told a clear message that there needs to be a refocussing, redirecting and reorganizing of the Community to move it forward and reignite the flames of integration. The Strategic Plan outlines the Strategic repositioning of the Community. The Caribbean…
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Communiqué Issued at The Conclusion of the Thirty-Fifth Regular Meeting of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, 1-4 July 2014, Dickenson Bay, Antigua And Barbuda
The Thirty-Fifth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Dickenson Bay, Antigua and Barbuda, from 1-4 July 2014. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne, chaired the proceedings. Other members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Rt.…
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CARICOM to get Debt Advocacy Team
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Debt Advocacy Team is to be appointed to campaign for debt relief and/or debt amelioration on behalf of highly indebted CARICOM Member States. This was one of the key outcomes of the Thirty-Fifth Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government which concluded in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday, 4 July…
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CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Corps – CARICOM Day Message “I Am CARICOM, You Are CARICOM, We Are CARICOM”
The vision of the leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) articulated forty one (41) years ago has translated in today’s mandate of achieving regional integration through engaging, promoting and providing opportunities to Caribbean Member States to collectively direct the way forward. Indeed, within CARICOM, a considerable percentage of our population is between the ages of 18-30. As noted in the…
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