(CARICOM Secretarait, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The private sector must play a crucial role if the Community is to achieve the results from the priorities laid out last year by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government.

This is the view articulated by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General at a business luncheon hosted by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) in Georgetown, Guyana on Wednesday.

​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Thank you for this invitation to speak at your quarterly Luncheon. This Luncheon affords me the first opportunity, since assuming office as Secretary-General some six months ago, to address a forum in Guyana outside of the confines of Secretariat’s Headquarters or a Secretariat organized event. The time could not be more appropriate for me to address you, given the crossroads at which the Caribbean Community finds itself. As clichéd as this sounds, the fact is we are at a crucial juncture in our integration arrangements.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Thank you for this invitation to speak at your quarterly Luncheon. This Luncheon affords me the first opportunity, since assuming office as Secretary-General some six months ago, to address a forum in Guyana outside of the confines of Secretariat’s Headquarters or a Secretariat organized event. The time could not be more appropriate for me to address you, given the crossroads at which the Caribbean Community finds itself. As clichéd as this sounds, the fact is we are at a crucial juncture in our integration arrangements.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Political will is not alone to blame for the so-called implementation deficit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), says Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of CARICOM.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must take into account necessity, urgency and resources required when setting its targets and be mindful of “what it can, and cannot do”, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General, said Wednesday.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Coordinating Unit and Chairs of the Working Groups of the Caribbean Animal Health Network (CaribVET) met at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, 14-15 February and revised the network’s Charter Document.

The revised Charter, which outlines the principles, organisation and functions of the Network, will be presented for ratification when CaribVET’s Steering Committee meets in Georgetown during May 2012.

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Come next week Tuesday, Antigua and Barbuda will host the Second Meeting of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) Technical Working Group (TWG) on Preventing Crime by Focusing on At Risk Youths and Vulnerable Populations.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Job creation and strengthening the capacity of the Haitian Government were the top two priorities laid out to the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) during its two-day mission to Haiti.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Job creation and strengthening the capacity of the Haitian Government were the top two priorities laid out to the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) during its two-day mission to Haiti.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the Foreign Minister of Haiti, the Honourable Laurent Lamothe on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) identifying of a number of areas in which CARICOM can assist its Member State.