Ambassador Koichiro Seki
Members of the Japanese delegation
Members of the CARICOM delegation
Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General
Officials of the CARICOM Secretariat
Members of the Media

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) formally accepted video-conferencing equipment from the Government of Japan today at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Community in Georgetown Guyana. Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite accepted the equipment on behalf of CARICOM, from Japan’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Koichiro Seki.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my great pleasure that the Twelfth Japan-CARICOM Consultation Meeting is convened in the Republic of Guyana, with representatives from CARICOM Member States and Japan.

Since 1993, this forum has been greatly contributing to development of the solid base for friendly ties between Japan and CARICOM Member States as well as for our mutual cooperation in the international arena.　

Ambassador Koichiro Seki
Members of the Japanese delegation
Members of the CARICOM delegation
Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General
Officials of the CARICOM Secretariat
Members of the Media

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)   Ministers of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama today launched free trade negotiations in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The negotiations which will build on the existing free trade agreement between CARICOM and Costa Rica are intended to result in an agreement that would deepen and strengthen trade and economic relations between the two sub-regions.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General HE Edwin Carrington says that in view of the energy challenges facing the small states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Community has to carefully consider renewable energy; bio-energy in particular,

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recommended to the United States (US) the establishment of procedural guidelines to streamline the deportation process. Those guidelines would take into consideration the interests of the US and the receiving countries.

(CARCIOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in collaboration with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), has embarked on a project to strengthen the Region's capacity in Demographic Analysis.