Press Releases

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Her Excellency Faith Radebe, the first Plenipotentiary Representative of South Africa to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was accredited on Thursday May 28, 2009, at the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders in the agriculture sector have been urged to act now to build alliances to promote agri-business development in the Region.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week.

First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts to in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Wednesday May 27, 2009 signalled support to Japan from Member States of the Community for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the term 2009-2010.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have agreed that the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) should be a vehicle for all development resources of the Region and in this regard should be restructured to become more responsive to the needs of the Region. Meeting in Special Caucus at the Diplomatic Centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the CARICOM Leaders said that this responsiveness should be exercised in a responsible and sustainable manner.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Four main objectives were identified at the end of a meeting of CARICOM Finance Ministers and Financial Services Sector Regulators as they sought to resolve difficulties arising in the Region’s insurance and banking sectors.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday 24 May at a Special Caucus to discuss the current economic circumstances of Member States arising from the on-going global economic and financial crisis.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders of agri-business in the Caribbean will meet in Georgetown, Guyana next week to identify the levels of collaboration that are necessary in the short, medium and long term to move the sector forward.

I am especially pleased at the privilege afforded me as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to participate in this Opening Ceremony of the Eighth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE).