Press Releases
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REGION TO GET BOOST IN TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Efforts are underway through the Washington-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) to extend the installation of Coral Reef Early Warning Systems (CREWs) stations throughout the Caribbean. This would help to build capacity in detecting and responding to early warning signs in climate change. In explaining…
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REGION TO GET BOOST IN TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Efforts are underway through the Washington-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) to extend the installation of Coral Reef Early Warning Systems (CREWs) stations throughout the Caribbean. This would help to build capacity in detecting and responding to early warning signs in climate change. In explaining…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES CHANDERPAUL ON RECENT ACCOLADES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington, has extended congratulations to the 2008 International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Cricketer of the Year, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, on his receipt of a number of honours from Guyana, his native land. Mr. Chanderpaul, former West Indian Cricket Captain, was given a heroes’ welcome on his return to Guyana…
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vCARICOM MAINSTREAMING ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT ENDS ON POSITIVE NOTE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Belize based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) is reporting measurable success in its implementation of the Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project, which expires on 31 March 2009. At the second Conference of the CARICOM Climate Change held in Saint Lucia on 23-24 March, Consultant Carlos Santos in delivering his preliminary…
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WORLD BANK GIVES THUMBS UP TO CARICOM CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Mr Walter Vergara, Project Leader for the Executing Agency -World Bank – on the Caribbean Community Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change project (MACC) has expressed great satisfaction with the implementation of the MACC project noting that it has been “very successful, with major accomplishments.” The MACC project is a World Bank/Global Environment Fund (GEF)…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SECOND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE, 24 MARCH 2009, CASTRIES, SAINT LUCIA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I very much regret that I am unable to attend this important Conference to address the Region’s Climate Change agenda but this meeting coincides with a series of other pressing issues that demand my attention and that of the Assistant Secretary-General, Dr Edward Greene under whose portfolio the whole area of sustainable development falls.…
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CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY URGENT – CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington is calling for the expedition of the Climate Change strategic plan and accompanying action plan which would mainstream critical issues related to the impact of Climate Change on the Region. In remarks read by CARICOM Secretariat’s Garfield Barnwell, Director of Sustainable Development, to the Opening Ceremony of the Second Climate…
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REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS URGED TO ADOPT CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Saint Lucia Prime Minister, the Hon Stephenson King is urging Caribbean governments as a matter of priority to develop, strengthen and apply national and regional adaptation policies that will address Climate Change concerns within the Region. He also called on the governments to pursue vigorously mitigation, adaptation and resource mobilisation strategies to combat Climate…
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE SITUATION IN THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is following with growing concern recent political and constitutional developments in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), a British Overseas Territory and Associate Member of the Community. On 16 March 2009 the Interim Report of the Turks and Caicos Commission of Inquiry into possible corruption or other dishonesty in relation…
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JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE THIRTEENTH CARICOM-JAPAN CONSULTATIONS, 19 MARCH 2009, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS
The Thirteenth Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Japan Consultations on their bilateral cooperation arrangements was convened in Barbados on 19 March 2009. The CARICOM delegation was led by His Excellency Anthony Liverpool, Non-Resident Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to Japan and the delegation of Japan was led by His Excellency Ambassador Tatsuaki Iwata, Representative of the Government of Japan. The CARICOM delegation was…
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