(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 Change.
(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.
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The Thirteenth Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Japan Consultations on their bilateral cooperation arrangements was convened in Barbados on 19 March 2009. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Stephenson King, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia will be the keynote speaker at the Second Caribbean Community Climate Change Conference slated for March 23-24, 2009, in Saint Lucia, under the theme_ Mainstreaming Climate Change for the Sustainable Development of the Caribbean. Saint Lucia has lead responsibility for sustainable development in the quasi–Cabinet of the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultations on technical cooperation will convene in Barbados on 19-20 March 2009 and are expected to cover both technical and political issues of mutual interest.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Organisation of Tax Administrators (COTA) has launched its second essay competition for secondary school students throughout the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) aimed in part at stimulating broad interest in taxation matters.
The topic is `Building Efficient Tax Administrations in Promoting National and Regional Development’.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) All twelve Member States participating in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) are now issuing the CARICOM passport.
This week Belize became the twelfth CARICOM Member State to introduce the document during a ceremony held in the capital of Belmopan.
A CARICOM passport, which features the CARICOM logo and the words “Caribbean Community” printed on the cover, is a National passport which is issued in accordance with agreed common colours and format for intra-regional and extra-regional travel.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twentieth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Belize City, Belize, from 12-13 March 2008. The Honourable Dean O. Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize, presided.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A wide cross-section of Belizeans is expected to participate in a Town Hall Meeting Saturday 14 March 2009 at the Sacred Heart Secondary School, San Ignacio, Belize, to discuss the benefits of integration including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM, will lead a delegation to the Town Hall Meeting that will place emphasis on the opportunities available under the CSME and within the Community in general.