Press Releases

​“These last 18 years as Secretary-General have been the pinnacle of my public service career. I have, despite the odds, done all I could to help create a viable and secure Community for All. It has been a period of important achievements as well as significant disappointments. I leave satisfied and confident however, that the Caribbean Community now has a solid platform on which to continue to build the integration movement,” the Secretary-General said.

​Regional integration and its importance to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is the focus of Broadcasters and Newspaper Editors workshops which will be held in Grenada at the Flamboyant Hotel and Villas on the 26-27 and 29 -30 July respectively.

Broadcasters and newspaper editors from across the region will benefit from presentations on a variety of topics including; The CSME – Looking ahead; Free Movement of Skills and Occupation and Providing Professional Services in the CSME. In addition, there will be presentations on issues affecting the regional broadcast and print media.

​Competition Policy and Consumer Welfare will be the focus of a seminar scheduled for 13 July 2010 at the Torarica Hotel Paramaribo, Suriname.

The seminar is organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and funded by the 9th European Development Fund (EDF), Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP). It is one in a series of seminars on Competition Policy and Law facilitated throughout the region.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The recovery efforts in Haiti was definitely a priority item on the agenda of the 31st Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community when they got down to dealing with the business of the Community at the Rose Hall Resorts and Spa in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

The Honourable Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Chairman, the Honourable Harold Lovell, Minister of Finance, of Antigua and Barbuda and other Ministers of Government Ambassador Valeriano Diaz, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Sir K Dwight Venner Representatives of International and Regional Organisations Representatives of CARIFORUM Member States and Associate Members Representatives of the Private Sector Assistant Secretary General Irwin La Rocque and staff of the CARICO

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at their 31st Regular Meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica decided to have another look at the Community’s governance structure.

To this end, they agreed to establish a special committee to conduct a review of several proposals on governance structures that were brought to the conference table. This Committee will be assisted by a Technical Working Group and would commence work “almost immediately.”

Heads of Government reiterated their commitment to combating trafficking in persons.

They noted the policies of prevention, prosecution and victim protection which have been adopted and implemented in their Member States to address this crime.

Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), including His Excellency René Préval, President of Haiti, held an in-depth discussion on the post-earthquake situation in Haiti at their Thirty-First Regular Meeting held in Montego Bay, Jamaica.   The Secretaries General of the United Nations (UN) and of the Organisation of American States (OAS), as well as the Special Representative of the CARICOM Heads of Government on Haiti participated in this exchange of views.