The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of the Republic of Suriname on the country’s Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Independence, to be celebrated  on 25 November 2020. “The diligence, unity, creativity and innovation of the people of Suriname have been key ...

International ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has maintained its long and short-term credit ratings of B-/B with a stable outlook for the Barbados economy. “The stable outlook reflects our view that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a significant impact on Barbados’ economy and that ...

The CARICOM Election Observation Mission to Belize has been meeting with various stakeholders ahead of the General Elections scheduled for 11 November 2020. The six-member Mission, headed by Ms Jeannette Charles of Antigua and Barbuda, includes electoral officials from various Member States with ...

The Special Topic Statistical Bulletin on COVID-19 in CARICOM Countries, Issue 33, provides an update of the trajectory of the COVID-19 in the CARICOM Region up to 6 November 2020. The Bulletin provides information on the pattern of the disease of the total number of confirmed cases, new cases an...

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) DR THE HONOURABLE RALPH GONSALVES PRIME MINISTER OF ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES JOSEPH R BIDEN Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CAR...

CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES GENERAL ELECTIONS, 5 NOVEMBER 2020 ARRIVAL STATEMENT By way of letter dated 7 October 2020, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines invited the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to field a miss...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has mounted a six-person Election Observation Mission to monitor the General Elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, 5 November 2020. The Mission is headed by Mr Anthonyson King, a member of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission. The other...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of the Commonwealth of Dominica on the country’s Forty-Second Anniversary as an independent nation. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, p...

The IMF has announced that all quantitative targets for endSeptember under the Extend Fund Facility (EFF) with Barbados were met. It further advised that the programme target for Net International Reserves was met by a wide margin exceeding US$1 billion. Those were the findings of the virtual EFF...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Antigua and Barbuda on its thirty-ninth Anniversary of Independence, to be observed on 1 November 2020 under the theme ‘One Purpose, One Vision, One Nation’. “Antigua and Barbuda has made remarkable progress in those 39 years, which is the resul...