Press Releases
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CARICOM and Mexico leaders hold third summit
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Agriculture and disaster risk reduction take centre stage as Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Mexico gather in Merida, Mexico for their Third Summit on Tuesday 29th April. The Summit will be preceded earlier in the day by a meeting of the Foreign Ministers. In 1974 Mexico became the first country…
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CARICOM, Spain strengthen diplomatic relations
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Kingdom of Spain on Thursday, 24 April continued to build on the long-standing relationship formalised in 1999, with the accreditation of a new Plenipotentiary Representative of Spain to CARICOM, H.E. José María Fernández López de Turiso. In receiving the Letters of Credence from the Spanish Ambassador at the…
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CARICOM, French Republic forge closer cooperation
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and French Republic on Thursday, 24 April formalised diplomatic relations with the accreditation of H.E. Michel Prom, Plenipotentiary Representative of France to CARICOM. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque accepted the Letters of Credence in a simple handing over ceremony in his office at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown,…
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BRIEF ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE CEREMONY OF ACCREDITATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY JOSÉ MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ DE TURISO, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE (DESIGNATE) OF THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN TO CARICOM GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, APRIL 24, 2014
Your Excellency, it is my honor to present to you the letter from my Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation by which I have been designated Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative of Spain to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Spain and the nations of the Caribbean have a common history dating back many centuries. This shared history provides a…
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Remarks by the SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion Of the PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY H.E. Mr. JOSE MARIA FERNANDEZ LOPEZ DE TURISO PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE (DESIGNATE) OF THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
Excellency, it is truly my pleasure and honour to welcome you on the occasion of the presentation of your credentials as the Kingdom of Spain’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. Your predecessor, Ambassador Joaquin Maria de Aristegui, did a most commendable job in enhancing the already excellent relations between CARICOM and Spain. Given your wealth of diplomatic experience, Excellency,…
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CARICOM Secretariat celebrates girls in ICT with interactive session, exhibit
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) An interactive session, hosted by the CARICOM Secretariat to commemorate Girls in ICT Day, opened this morning at the Secretariat’s headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana. The Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan in her remarks to the gathering noted that observance of the day at the Secretariat showed continued solidarity with the…
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Opening Remarks by Deputy Secretary General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan, Phd at The Workshop to Mark ‘Girls in ICT Day 2014 CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters 24 April 2014
It is an honour and a pleasure for me to welcome you today – both to the Secretariat and to the first Secretariat observance of Girls in ICT day. In observing this day with you – we show continued solidarity with the United Nations and the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU’s) call for action to empower women and girls to meet…
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Celebrating girls in ICT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Girls in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are preparing to join their counterparts worldwide on Thursday 24 April, to call attention to the opportunities available to them in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). On Thursday, International Girls in ICT Day will be observed under the theme Expanding Horizons And Changing Attitudes. The…
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CARICOM officials to discuss Consumer Protection
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Rapid Alert System for Information Exchange on Dangerous Goods (CARREX) will be the focus of the Seventh Meeting of Consumer Affairs, in Jamaica on 24 – 25 April 2014. CARREX is part of a CARICOM Secretariat project, funded by the European Union under the Tenth European Development Fund (EDF); and is intended…
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Chilean President assures CARICOM of her country’s support
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chile’s President Her Excellency Michele Bachelet assured CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque of her country ’s continuing support for the development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The President received the Secretary-General at her office, in Santiago on Tuesday, the second and final day of his official visit to Chile. Ambassador LaRocque welcomed her assurance…
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