UN Live United Nations Web TV – Dean Barrow (Belize – on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)), High-level Signature Ceremony for the Paris Agreement, National Statements
April 25, 2016, KINGSTON, Jamaica – National population and housing censuses provide data that could help countries in the Caribbean Region improve decision-making, accountability, and address development challenges such as inequalities in employment, education and wealth. As Caribbean nations answer the call for a global data revolution, they continue to tackle statistical capacity challenges.
The Office of the Prime Minister rejects the version of events in the statement by President Jimmy Morales made to the Guatemalan public on 21st April, 2016 regarding the incident in Belize’s Cebada area of the Chiquibul National Park.
Ministers of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been encouraged to provide their perspectives on how they see the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) working and how it could be improved to make a greater impact on the people of the Region.
CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has joined CARICOM Heads and other government representatives at UN Headquarters in New York for today’s Special Signing Ceremony for the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
Ambassador LaRocque was also in Paris to coordinate CARICOM’s campaign as the Region sought to get its red line climate change issues represented in the final agreement.
Several CARICOM Member States will join more than 150 countries across the world which will begin to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at a special Ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York today.
The Signing Ceremony takes place on the first day that the Agreement will open for signatures. It will remain open for one year.
A redefinition of the national priorities “to fit CARICOM” so that the Regional integration movement could be more effective was necessary to respond to the challenges it currently faced, the Hon Alva Baptiste, Minister of External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of Saint Lucia, said on Thursday.
More sensitisation needed to be done among Regional border officials on the rules and procedures for the treatment of nationals as they travelled throughout the Community, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan, PhD., said Thursday.
The CARICOM Secretariat, in collaboration with the Guyana Ministry of Education and other partners, will host a number of activities in Guyana from April 28– 29, 2016, to celebrate Girls in ICT.
MONTEGO BAY—Anyone interested in the development of the Internet in Caribbean may have already heard of CaribNOG, the Caribbean Network Operators Group. Over the past decade, this volunteer-based community of computer engineers has grown into a formidable influencer in the regional technology arena. Today, its twice-yearly regional gatherings are among the most highly anticipated events on the Caribbean’s tech calendar.