(Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) - CARICOM’s efforts to tackle critical sustainable development challenges have gained support through cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany. On 1 July 2025, CARICOM Secretary-General Dr. Carla Barnett and Germany’s...

Security is a priority area of focus of Chair of the Caribbean Community, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who intends to mobilise the Region to think differently about the scale and magnitude of the problem that is fuelled by drugs, gangs and guns. "There can be no sustained prosperity without ...

For the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the impact of climate change is a reality and not academic, manifesting as a sobering reminder especially during the hurricane season that lasts from July to November. It is for this reason, that the Community must continue to strongly advocate for climate j...

Fish trade, fisheries-related crimes, and a new environmental and social safeguard policy were among key matters on the agenda of the Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), which convened its 19th Regular Meeting virtually on Friday, 4 July 2025. The Council - w...

Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, and Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has challenged the Region to think strategically and focus on the values of unity in the current global environment. “As small states, we are vulnerable not just to global economic shocks ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) extends condolences to the loved ones and colleagues of Rickey Singh, a Caribbean son of the soil and journalist par excellence, who passed away 5 July 2025 in Barbados. For more than five decades, Mr. Singh, a Guyanese, served as a pillar of journalism in the Re...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has welcomed an initiative of the CARICOM Committee of Central Bank Governors and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), that will create a regional green finance taxonomy. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Grou...

The Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO) has announced the winners of the 2025 Caribbean Lightning Safety Awareness Contest, a regional initiative to boost public knowledge of lightning safety and first aid through creative expression by school children. Twelve schools from across the Car...

The current global environment provides an opportunity for Africa and the Caribbean to build on shared values and interests, and forge a path towards collective action, Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General said Friday. Secretary-General Barnett was at the time addressing the 32nd Afreximb...

The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) and Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) have today signed financing agreements with the Dominica Geothermal Power Company (2023) limited (DGPC) - a locally registered entity owned by ORMAT Technologies - for the development of the first geothermal power plant in a CAR...