Honourable, Alva Baptiste, Minister of External Affairs International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs of Saint Lucia and Chair of Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED); Other Honourable Ministers and Heads of Delegations; Representatives of Regional Institutions; Dis...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins the people and government of the Republic of Suriname in celebrating the Forty-Seventh Anniversary of Independence that is being observed on 25 November 2022. In a congratulatory message, Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, commended the progres...

Since 1991, for over 30 years, the global community has organized activities to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The Campaign incorporates four important observances: the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November; Human Rights Defenders...

Your Excellency, Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary General of the Community of Caribbean States.  It is a great privilege and honour for me to be here at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat to present the Letter of Credence by which His Excellency Pedro Castillo, President of Peru, appoin...

Your Excellency David Málaga, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Peru to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat. Ambassador, welcome to Guyana and the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It gives me immense pleasure to accept your lett...

Ministers of the Environment and Sustainable Development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), met at the One Hundred and Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) – Environment and Sustainable Development, on Friday 28 October 2022. The Ministers considered ...

 Honourable Ministers Mr. Regis Chapman, Representative and Country Director, United Nations World Food Programme; Mr. Alick Lazare, Co-Founder of CERES Agriculture Application, Dominica; Mr. Joseph Cox, Assistant Secretary-General, Economic Integration, Innovation and Development, CAR...

Chairman of Digicel Denis O’Brien offered his support to the regional reparations movement during an engagement last week with the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC). Mr. O’Brien presented a proposal entitled “Repair” that he said could assist in advancing CARICOM’s call for Reparations for Nat...

Thanks to ECLAC for inviting me to participate in this discussion of key sectors of the global economy, and the policy imperatives that are critical to ensuring that regional economies can and do progress these sectors with the objective of inclusive and sustainable development. As a backdrop, th...

The Forty-Fourth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held on 13-14 October 2022, under the theme “Education as and for Resilience.” The Honourable Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of ...