Press Releases

By mahtabala, 15 August, 2007

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Youth leaders of the Caribbean Region and experts in the area of youth work concluded a four-day meeting on Friday, in Kingston, Jamaica with a clearer path in charting a meaningful agenda for youth development.

By mahtabala, 15 August, 2007

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM youth leaders at their recent meeting in Kingston, Jamaica have applauded the ICT partnership between the CARICOM Secretariat and telecommunications giant of Suriname, Telesur, as timely, unique and innovative.

By mahtabala, 10 August, 2007

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twelfth Caribbean Community-Japan Consultation was held at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat on 9 August 2007. The CARICOM delegation was led by Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guyana and Ambassador to the Caribbean Community and Japan by His Excellency Ambassador Koichiro Seki, Representative of the Government of Japan to the Caribbean Community.

By mahtabala, 10 August, 2007

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twelfth Caribbean Community-Japan Consultation was held at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat on 9 August 2007. The CARICOM delegation was led by Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guyana and Ambassador to the Caribbean Community and Japan by His Excellency Ambassador Koichiro Seki, Representative of the Government of Japan to the Caribbean Community.

By mahtabala, 9 August, 2007

(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.

By mahtabala, 9 August, 2007

(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.γ€€

By mahtabala, 8 August, 2007

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Β Β  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.

By mahtabala, 6 August, 2007

(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,