Press Releases

By mahtabala, 8 July, 2009

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than a hundred representatives of the Services Sector in the Caribbean will gather in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda next week to begin charting a more structured approach to the development of the Sector within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

By mahtabala, 8 July, 2009

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 14-member CARICOM Commission on Youth Development is meeting on Monday, for the seventh and last time to add the finishing touches to their much anticipated Report.

By mahtabala, 7 July, 2009

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Youth - Making the Caribbean is the theme of a four-day Caribbean Youth Exchange set for Port Au Prince, Haiti, this week-end, as the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) steps up its programme of sensitisation on its research findings, ahead of the proposed Heads of Government Summit on Youth, later this year.

By mahtabala, 7 July, 2009

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be moving one step closer to creating a Single Domestic Space when it implements the CARICOM Travel Card (CARIPASS) by the end of 2009.

At their 30th Summit held in Georgetown, Guyana last week, CARICOM Heads of Government agreed to proposals for implementing CARIPASS, the travel card that will enhance regional security and support expedited travel throughout participating CARICOM Member States.

By mahtabala, 6 July, 2009

The Member States of the Caribbean Community reiterate their view that respect for the rule of law, representative democracy and integrity in public life are fundamental elements of good governance to which they all strongly adhere. Accordingly, they were deeply disturbed by the adverse findings of Turks and Caicos Commission of Inquiry into possible corruption or other dishonesty in relation to past and present elected members of the Legislature.

By mahtabala, 6 July, 2009
 
 
We,the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community, at our Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference in Liliendaal, Guyana from 2–5 July 2009, affirm our commitment to the principles and objectives of the Caribbean Community as embodied in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy -

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By mahtabala, 6 July, 2009

  We, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at our Thirtieth Meeting in Liliendaal, Guyana, 2-5 July 2009, affirm our commitment to the principles and objectives of the Caribbean Community as embodied in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy;

Having experienced the negative fallout from the global financial and economic crisis, recognize the need to effect appropriate reform in our financial sector policy and the regional financial architecture;

By mahtabala, 4 July, 2009

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The global financial and economic crisis is projected to pose a serious threat to the social gains that have been achieved over the last decade as it was likely to push an additional 46 million people below the poverty line over and above the 130-155 million who were there in 2008.