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“Intensify efforts to provide universal access to quality maternal healthcare for better health outcomes for mothers and newborns” – CARICOM Secretary-General
CARICOM remains steadfast in its commitment to advancing maternal and child health as a critical component of the Region’s health and development agenda, working with our Ministries of Health, the Regional Nursing Body, and bilateral and multilateral development partners. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett The theme for World Health Day 2025, “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures” spotlights maternal and newborn health,…
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MESSAGE FROM DR. CARLA N. BARNETT SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY8 MARCH 2024
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Friday, 8 March 2024: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat joins our Member States and the rest of the world in observing International Women’s Day 2024 under the theme, “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress”. This year, we celebrate the progress we have made towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Region. Our…
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Remarks by Dr Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) at the event in Celebration of Africa-CARICOM Day, organised by the P.J. Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy and The University of the West Indies, Mona, 7 September 2023
Your Excellencies; Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to join you on this second Africa-CARICOM Day, as we acknowledge the deepening CARICOM-Africa relationship and our enduring bonds of ancestry, history, and culture. I thank the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson, through the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and…
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CARICOM congratulates Trinidad and Tobago on its Sixty-First Anniversary of Independence
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Trinidad and Tobago on its Sixty-First Anniversary of Independence. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett noted the country’s integral role in the regional integration movement in her congratulatory message to Prime Minister Dr Hon Keith Rowley: “Honourable Prime Minister, The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) extends congratulations to the Government and People of the Republic of Trinidad and…
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CARICOM and IICA confirm alliance and prioritise actions to combat food and nutrition insecurity and improve the Climate Resilience of Agriculture in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) reached an agreement to prioritize their joint actions in this region, with a view to strengthening the food and nutrition security of the population and the climate resilience of the agricultural sector. The agreement was signed during a visit by Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of CARICOM, to the…
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Remarks by Secretary-General Dr Carla N Barnett at the 9th India-LAC Conclave, New Delhi, India, 3-4 August 2023
Honourable Ministers Distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen This 9th India-LAC Conclave is another excellent opportunity to enhance the growing partnership between India and the Latin America and Caribbean region as you – public and private sector stakeholders in this forum – seek to explore new markets, boost trade, create jobs and increase productivity and competitiveness. The theme for this year’s…
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Remarks by Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community, on the occasion of the 11th UK-Caribbean Forum, Kingston, Jamaica, 18 May 2023
The Right Honourable James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs; Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica; Foreign Ministers; Distinguished ladies and gentlemen. I am pleased to address you on behalf of the Caribbean Community as we convene…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett on the occasion of the presentation of Credentials by H.E. Leslia Miller-Brice as Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community, 16 May 2022
Your Excellency Leslia Miller-Brice, Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community; Ambassador Donna Forde, Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations, and other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat. It is with great pleasure that I accept your Letter of Credence as the Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Ambassador, I am always grateful for an opportunity…
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Remarks by Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett at 33rd Inter-Sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government, Belize, 1-2 March 2022
Honourable John A. Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community; Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Outgoing Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community; Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community; Other Heads of Delegation; Heads…
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Secretary-General’s Remarks at the Ministerial Meeting of the International Partners of Haiti – 21 January 2022
Foreign Minister of Canada Melanie Joly,Prime Minister Ariel HenryPrime Minister Ralph GonsalvesForeign Ministers and Representatives of the international partners of HaitiRepresentatives of International Institutions Greetings I welcome the invitation to participate in this timely and important meeting on Haiti, a Member State of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Let me first commend the Government of Canada for having taken the initiative…
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