Press Releases

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Environmental Policy and Action Programme is being developed with the assistance of the Government of Japan.

With financing from the Japan-CARICOM Friendship and Cooperation Fund (JCFCF), a regional, integrated policy to ensure protection of the environment and the natural resources will be developed to address selected environmental themes and economic sectors, which have been prioritised by the Community.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The sustainable development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) can be brought about only through the incorporation of research and development in all sectors of the economy and the appropriate development of human resources.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you to this Bi- Regional Dialogue of the EU-CARINET Project, on behalf of the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Amb. Irwin LaRocque, and also to welcome you to the CARICOM Secretariat.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed confidence that the continued goodwill, friendship and cooperation which characterised CARICOM-Venezuela relations would continue under the Presidency of His Excellency Nicolás Maduro of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

On behalf of the Secretary-General of Caribbean Community, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development on Energy being held here in Trinidad and Tobago.  The Secretary General sincerely regrets that he could not be here at this so important COTED Energy Meeting.
Ladies and Gentlemen,

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A senior Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) official has called upon members of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) to make full use of a standby Facility for capacity building under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Unlocking the economic value of the cultural industries and sporting sectors of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) holds much promise for development prospects, especially at a time when there has been a significant reduction in traditional revenue streams. The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) represents an important ‘key’ for the Region, in this regard.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Excellency, allow me to begin by warmly welcoming you to the CARICOM Secretariat and to Guyana. I trust that you will be as at home here as your distinguished and much appreciated predecessor was.

These occasions are always pleasant ones, and all the more so when one is welcoming the representative of a state that has been as much a friend to the Caribbean as Australia has.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Joint cooperation efforts of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Australia have contributed to the momentous achievement of a globally binding arms treaty, recently concluded by the United Nations General Assembly.

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Thursday highlighted this feat in accepting the letters of credence of His Excellency Ross William Tysoe, Non-Resident Plenipotentiary Representative of Australia to CARICOM, at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana.