Press Releases
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Regional Energy Officials seek to advance moves towards renewable energy
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A four-year, euro 5.02M project to assist Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States to move towards renewable energy technologies is the focus of discussion over the next two days at CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters, Guyana. Representatives of Member States and other key stakeholders in the Community’s energy sector are charting the way forward for a renewable…
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CARICOM STATEMENT ON GUYANA’S ANTI MONEY LAUNDERING BILL
(CARICOM Secretariat Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is concerned at the continuing delay in Guyana’s progress towards implementing recommendations to address deficiencies in its anti-money laundering regime. CARICOM calls on all parties involved in the process to take all necessary actions without further delay to have the necessary reforms implemented. CARICOM remains deeply concerned that failure to…
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CARICOM takes steps to improve trade performance under Bilateral Agreements
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The establishment of effective trade facilitation offices, both at national and regional levels has been recommended as a key to the Region taking greater advantage of trade agreements with third countries. Recommendations are contained in a draft report from a study commissioned “to identify and assess the underlying reasons affecting CARICOM’s weak trade performance…
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CARICOM active at CELAC Summit
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARCOM) played an active role during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Summit (CELAC) on 28-29 January 2014 in Havana, Cuba, on the theme “Eradication of Hunger, Poverty and Inequality”. This also applied to their role during the preceding preparatory meetings of National Coordinators on…
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Change is underway says CARICOM SG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has begun the process of restructuring with reforms instituted in corporate areas, Human Resource Management, Finance, and in the way projects are managed, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, said on Friday. Delivering remarks at the opening of the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers at the CARICOM…
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Remarks by Senator the Hon. Camillo Gonsalves, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Commerce and Information Technology of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers at the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, 31 January, 2014 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Georgetown, Guyana
I am honoured to be here at the CARICOM headquarters in Guyana, and doubly so to chair this, the 33rd meeting of the Community Council of Ministers. I am especially grateful for the presence of so many esteemed Ministers of Foreign Affairs at this meeting. While travel between and among CARICOM states – in the best of times – can…
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At The THIRTY-THIRD Meeting of the COMMUNITY Council of Ministers
Welcome you all to this meeting of the Community Council and in so doing extend a special welcome to our chairman Senator the Honourable Camillo Gonsalves who is attending his first meeting and is immediately thrust into the leadership role. Minister in congratulating you on your assumption of the chair, I do so in the full knowledge that this Council…
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C-SERMS Resource Mobilization Forum was held in July 2013 in Barbados
As a final activity under the C-SERMS Phase I Project funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The keynote address was delivered by Minister with responsibility for Energy in Barbados, Senator the Hon. Darcy Boyce. Other speakers at the event included, H.E. Mr. Stefan Schlüter, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Port of Spain and Mr. Christiaan Gischler, Senior…
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Remarks by SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion Of the PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY His EXCELLENCY DR. BOZO CERAR Plenipotentiary Representative (DESIGNATE) Of THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
Ambassador, it is my honour to accept your Credentials accrediting you as Slovenia’s Plenipotentiary Representative to CARICOM and to extend to you my hand and that of the Caribbean Community in friendship. The Caribbean Community welcomes the interest in deepening ties that your country has shown in appointing you as its second Ambassador to our Community. CARICOM’s expectations that relations…
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SG LaRocque seeks Slovenia’s support in advocating for CARICOM on EU graduation policy
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has sought the support of Slovenia in advocating for CARICOM regarding graduation in the EU development policy. The Secretary General was making remarks during a ceremony in which the newly appointed Slovenian Ambassador to CARICOM His Excellency Bozo Cerar handed over his credentials. The…
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