The Community recognises that the challenges of development are deep-seated. Significant resources and appropriate and mutually reinforcing policies at national, regional and international levels are required to address the difficulties facing developing countries. CARICOM Member States, therefore, ...

While The Commonwealth, the Organisation of American States and the United States government have all made known their condemnation of the actions by Venezuela, CARICOM which has its secretariat in Guyana, has offered very little. As the 36th Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government opens at the ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, addressing the opening session of the Thirty-Sixth Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government in Barbados, on July 2, 2015, urged that “dynamism ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     This is the view of CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin La Rocque, in his Remarks to the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government, which opened today, July 2, in Barbados.   Ambassador LaRocque noted that “pr...

Welcome to the Thirty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.  The excellent arrangements for this evening’s Opening Ceremony is a fine example of how our hosts, the Government and people of Barbados, have organised this Meeting to create...

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque hosted Ambassadors accredited to CARICOM to a Breakfast Meeting on Thursday morning.  The Ambassadors are in Barbados for the Opening Ceremony of the 36th Regular Meeting of  CARICOM Heads of Government which begins at 4:30 this afternoon...

Young people from across the Region will have an opportunity to interact with the CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque via social media on 29 June 2015. The event, which is happening just before the Thirty Sixth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of C...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has welcomed the European Union’s (EU) new regional funding programme for the Caribbean of €346 million. The signing of the ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is anticipating “the fresh ideas and views” that newly elected President of Guyana, His Excellency David Granger “wil...

It is indeed a pleasure for me personally, as well as the CARICOM Secretariat, to be associated with this “one of a kind” event. This “Forum on The Future of the Caribbean” could not be more timely and relevant given the challenging regional and international circumstances. I am particularly hearte...