Press Releases

  • July 29, 2014
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    Finland praises CARICOM for advancing economic, commercial interests of Member States

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Finland’s Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Kim Luotonen, on Friday presented his credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. At the ceremony held at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, Ambassador Luotonen held up the integration movement as a good example of the importance of cooperating and working together to advance…

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  • July 29, 2014
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    Chairman of CARICOM Reparations Commission addresses British House of Commons

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, in a presentation to the British House of Commons on 16 July 2014, expressed the view that the reparations process will bring honour and dignity to the people of the Caribbean as well as the people of Great Britain and Europe. He also predicted…

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  • July 25, 2014
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    CARICOM Secretariat to empower Guyana’s youth with animation skills

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     A group of young people in Guyana will get an opportunity to learn valuable animation skills through a project coordinated by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. The project, which is being implemented in collaboration with Animae Caribe and the Guyana Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, is designed around the use of animation as…

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  • July 25, 2014
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    Regional Social Security Heads Discuss Global Crisis

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The impact of the global financial crisis on social security institutions across the region is at the top of the agenda as CARICOM Heads of Social Security Organisations hold their 25th Meeting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines this week. The crisis has created pressure on the social security systems of Member States as…

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  • July 23, 2014
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    SASOD Honoured with 2014 Red Ribbon Award

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      The Guyana-based Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) was honoured with the 2014 Red Ribbon Award for Advocacy and Human Rights at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 20, 2014. The Red Ribbon Award is the world's leading award for innovative and outstanding community work in the response to the HIV…

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  • July 23, 2014
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    PANCAP Shocked and Saddened by Loss of Colleagues on Flight MH17

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) says it is deeply saddened that a number of great friends in the fight against HIV may have been lost in the devastating crash of Malaysia flight MH17 last week. “I am deeply shocked by this tragic news. I pray for the family of our…

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  • July 21, 2014
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    CARICOM and Japan to Hold First Summit

    CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet with Japanese Prime Minister His Excellency Shinzo Abe in the first ever CARICOM-Japan Summit on 28 July 2014 in Trinidad and Tobago. Since 1993, CARICOM and Japan have enjoyed friendly relations and this summit signals a quantum leap in their engagement as it is…

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  • July 16, 2014
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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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  • July 16, 2014
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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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  • July 16, 2014
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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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