Press Releases

By mahtabala, 16 May, 2010

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Measures to accelerate the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in focus at the Thirty-Fourth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) which convenes 28 May, in St. Georges, Grenada.

By mahtabala, 13 May, 2010
Hon. Celestino Corbacho, Minister of Labour and Immigration
Mr. Laszlo Andor, European Union Commissioner
Hon. Ministers of Social Security from the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean
Other Distinguished Delegates
Representatives of the Media
By mahtabala, 12 May, 2010

Subsequent to earlier information, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has learnt that four delegates who were attending the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System (CASSOS), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have not been accounted for.

The delegates include a national of Saint Lucia, a national of Trinidad and Tobago and two nationals of the Netherlands Antilles.

By mahtabala, 26 April, 2010
Your Excellency Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of the Federal Republic of Brazil
Your Excellency Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Acting Minister of External Relations of the Federal Republic of Brazil
Other distinguished Representatives of the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Distinguished Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
Distinguished delegates of CARICOM
Other Distinguished Guests
By mahtabala, 15 April, 2010

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Former Jamaican Prime Minister Percival J. Patterson, Special Representative of the CARICOM Heads of Government on Haiti, is in Haiti as part of follow-up activities to the International Donor Conference_ ‘Towards a New Future for Haiti’ held in New York last month. The Donor Conference, held at the United Nations Headquarters on 31 March, raised US$9.9B for Haiti’s reconstruction.

By mahtabala, 15 April, 2010
As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, I am pleased to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegations of Japan and of CARICOM to this Fourteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultations.

Ladies and Gentlemen, today’s Meeting is taking place in the shadow of a most tragic event – the passing of Dr. Tadaomi Nakai, former Adviser of the Government of Japan on Regional Project Formulation in the CARICOM Secretariat. Dr.

By mahtabala, 15 April, 2010
Welcome to Guyana and the CARICOM Secretariat!

Since we last met at the Secretariat’s Headquarters in February 2009 on the occasion of the formal launching of Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System (CASSOS), our fledging Institution has suffered a tragic loss, the impact of which is still with us and will continue to be with us for some time.