Press Releases
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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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“Celebrating CARICOM” Day with the CARICOM song!
Forty one years ago (July 4, 1973) the founding fathers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) came together and signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Community. Today we celebrate this anniversary on “CARICOM Day”, a day we set aside to commemorate all things CARICOM. This year is even more special because the Region now has an official CARICOM Song…
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Violence, cruelty, inequity and injustice … not our destiny says Triennial Awardee
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ms. Marion Bethel, the eleventh recipient of the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, in her acceptance speech, struck a resounding note in her call to governments and civil society “to commit wholeheartedly to zero tolerance for violence against women and girls” and to the “pursuit of a fifty percent representation of women in Parliament”.…
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Business Development – Key Discussion at CARICOM Heads Meeting
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Heads of Government engaged private sector ‘Captains of Industry’ on fostering business growth in the region, as several key development issues took centre stage on the first full day of the 35th annual CARICOM Heads of Government conference in St. John’s Antigua/Barbuda, Wednesday July 2nd 2014. The first ever Strategic Plan, geared towards…
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Heads of Government to meet business leaders: Work continues to revitalize regional economy
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Region continues to take steps to respond to the economic challenges confronting it, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government are placing increased emphasis on the private sector as the engine of sustainable growth. Heads of Government, on the second day of their 1-4 July meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, will engage captains…
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History created as new CARICOM song is launched
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Today, history was created for the Caribbean Community with the debut of the CARICOM song titled Celebrating CARICOM. The occasion was the opening ceremony of the Thirty-Fifth meeting of the Caribbean Community Conference of Heads of Government. CARICOM Heads, Diplomats and Delegates converged at the Sandals Grande Antigua Resorts and Spa for the ceremony…
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Find collective solutions to challenges – CARICOM SG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Even as the present cohort of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders returned to the place where political leaders in 1965 defined the integration ideals, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Tuesday stressed the urgency of finding solutions to the economic conditions that threatened to erode gains the Community has made. Ambassador Irwin LaRocque made this…
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Political leadership vital to integration venture – Prime Minister Gonsalves
(CARCOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Outgoing Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr. the Honourable Ralph Gonsalves Tuesday evening underlined the vital nature of political leadership in the quest for integration, as well as the necessity to “love and care for CARICOM”. The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister’s statements were contained in a speech titled “CARICOM’s possibilities,…
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Agreed priorities, holistic involvement critical to Strategic Plan success -CARICOM SG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The success of the Strategic Plan of the Caribbean Community hinges on agreement on the priority activities, the steps to implement them, and a multi-sectoral involvement to which the private sector is essential. This is the firm belief of Caribbean Community Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque who addressed the opening of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of…
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