By Elizabeth Morgan
“I am here to sound the alarm. The world must wake up. We are on the edge of the abyss – and moving in the wrong direction” UN Secretary General, UNGA 2021
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Bahamians are voting in General Elections today, Thursday 16 September 2021.
The historic first Africa-CARICOM Summit will be held in Tuesday 7 September 2021 between 8_00 a.m. and 11_00 a.m. ECT.
The full three-hour Summit, which features Statements from CARICOM and African Leaders, will be Livestreamed.
History will be made on 7September 2021, when the inaugural CARICOM-Africa Summit is held.
CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan demitted office on August 31 after seven years of service.
St. Kitts and Nevis is implementing another round of income support for residents who became redundant in March 2020 and remain unemployed because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
On June 15, the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) held a workshop on eCITES permit management in support of the implementation of the Convention in the Caribbean
"All of us gathered here are well-seized of the fact that climate change and the pandemic, as separate occurrences, are devastating for CARICOM Small Island and Low-lying Coastal Developing States (SIDS). That double threat compounded by the recent eruption of La Soufrière Volcano in St.
Grenada on Thursday, 10 June launched its National of Population and Housing Census.
The Census activities will begin on 15 September under the theme ‘Count us’. The slogan is ‘Nothing about us, without us because we all count!’
As a Caribbean Community, we join the rest of the world in rallying the cry to heal the planet with the recent celebrations of International Day for Biological Diversity (May 21), World Environment Day (June 5) and World Oceans Day (June 8).