Press Releases
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CARICOM NATIONAL CONSULTATION ON YOUTH GANG VIOLENCE SET FOR TRINIDAD
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trinidad and Tobago is set to host the next national consultation on youth gangs and gang violence on Friday, November 25. This is the fourth country earmarked for the pilot intervention on youth gangs and gang violence – the other three being Belize, Guyana and St Kitts and Nevis. The project is aimed at…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE CEREMONY FOR THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY D. BRENT HARDT, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 22 NOVEMBER 2011, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is with great pleasure that I welcome you Ambassador once again to the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community. Your posting here in Guyana would be the second time that our paths have crossed professionally, following one of your stints in Barbados while I served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY D. BRENT HARDT, AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF HIS CREDENTIALS TO AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 22 NOVEMBER 2011
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Your Excellency, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Deputy Secretary General, other members of the CARICOM Secretariat, U.S. Embassy colleagues, members of the media, ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to serve as the United States of America’s fourth Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. The United States greatly values the…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE CEREMONY FOR THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY D. BRENT HARDT, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 22 NOVEMBER 2011, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is with great pleasure that I welcome you Ambassador once again to the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community. Your posting here in Guyana would be the second time that our paths have crossed professionally, following one of your stints in Barbados while I served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY D. BRENT HARDT, AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF HIS CREDENTIALS TO AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 22 NOVEMBER 2011
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Your Excellency, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Deputy Secretary General, other members of the CARICOM Secretariat, U.S. Embassy colleagues, members of the media, ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to serve as the United States of America’s fourth Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. The United States greatly values…
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SG CALLED ON US TO GIVE CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is urging the United States to commit to the outcome of the Cancun Climate Change Conference. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque made the call at the accreditation ceremony of the new US Ambassador to the Community, His Excellency D, Brent Hardt at the CARICOM Secretariat’s Georgetown, Guyana headquarters on Tuesday.…
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CARICOM fields electoral observer mission to Saint Lucia
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will mount an Observer Mission to elections in Saint Lucia on 28 November 2011. The 10-member team will be headed by Chief of Mission, Ambassador Rudy Collins of Guyana. Deputy Chief of Mission is Mr. Eugene Petty of St. Kitts and Nevis. Other members of the Electoral Observer Mission…
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TRINIDAD HOSTS HIGH LEVEL CARICOM-JAPAN PUBLIC-PRIVATE ECONOMIC FORUM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will on Tuesday 22 November participate in a high level public-private sector business seminar with Japan, in Trinidad and Tobago. The CARICOM-Japan Business Seminar is part of a wider CARICOM-Japan Public-Private Joint Economic Mission from 20-25 November 2011, to explore investment opportunities in the Region. This Mission is as…
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TRADE MINISTERS MOVING TOWARDS CHARTING A NEW PATH
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers have begun discussions on how to strategically position the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to deliver on its mandates to the Community. Ministers and their representatives, who were in Georgetown for the Thirty-Third Meeting of the COTED, placed their initial thoughts on the table on…
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Hensley Robinson heads CARICOM electoral observer mission to Guyana
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Mr Hensley Robinson Chief Elections Officer of Barbados will lead a 22-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Electoral Observer Mission to the Guyana Elections which are scheduled to be held on Monday 28 November 2011. CARICOM had been invited by the Government of Guyana to field an Observer Mission for the General Elections. Mr Robinson was…
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