(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The recently concluded Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) entrepreneurship training in St. Kitts, has been hailed a success as a number of benchmarks were achieved for the regional pilot programme.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Regional Media Workshop on the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-based EPA Implementation Unit, will be convened in St George’s, Grenada on 12-13 November. It is the second such Workshop that the Unit has organized, this time around in collaboration with the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Grenada National EPA Implementation Unit (NEPAIU).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “Eradicating poverty is the greatest challenge facing the world today,” and HIV and AIDS and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) must be addressed if poverty is to be eradicated.

This is the view of UN Assistant Secretary, Ms Elizabeth Thompson, who delivered the keynote address to the Official Opening of the Twelfth Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS, in Belize on 24 October.
 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Five new companies commenced operations in St. Kitts on Thursday as part of the practical exercise of the Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) training taking place in Sandy Point, St Kitts and Nevis this week.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Picewell Forbes is by no means happy with the classification of most CARICOM highly-indebted States as “middle income economies,” and has insisted that CARICOM step up its advocacy on the issue as well as other development issues.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Bahamas envoy to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Picewell Forbes has conveyed his Government’s “utmost confidence” in the CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the staff of the CARICOM Secretariat.

“I wish to reaffirm my Government’s recognition of the role of the Caribbean Community Secretariat in championing the cause of the membership of the Caribbean Community,” he added.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Next week, November 11-17, is CARICOM Energy Week, to be observed under the theme, Sustainable Energy Powering a Green economy.

CARICOM Energy Week, first observed last year, was established as an annual event based on a mandate from CARICOM Energy Ministers in 2011 to provide a platform for increased awareness about energy matters, given the critical importance of energy to economic development.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has signalled the commitment of the Community to provide support where necessary to hurricane ravaged countries of Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba_ this, after Hurricane Sandy barrelled a path through the Caribbean on his way to the US, taking lives and leaving billions of dollars of damage in its wake.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-based Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit is set to convene a Meeting of Legislative Drafters on 8-9 November in Antigua and Barbuda.

​CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is for me always a special pleasure and honour to accept the Credentials of a Plenipotentiary Representative of a Member State to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat.

The Bahamas is a valued Member of our Community, and the fact that yours was one of the first diplomatic appointments made by the recently-elected Government of The Bahamas is testimony to the importance that your country attaches to its membership of CARICOM.