CARICOM’s strong negotiating team for the just-agreed Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction treaty (BBNJ) comprised representatives of the Region’s Permanent Missions to the United Nations and capital base experts supported by scientific and legal experts drawn from the regional ...

March 4, 2023 marked a historic moment for the world’s oceans. After a marathon of intense, sometimes overnight negotiations, Member States of the United Nations agreed on the provisions of the ocean biodiversity treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine Biodiversity of areas Beyond N...

March 4, 2023 marked a historic moment for the world’s ocean.  After a marathon of intense, sometimes overnight negotiations, Member States of the United Nations agreed on the provisions of a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdic...

On 8 March 2023, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), a special observance that was adopted by the United Nations 48 years ago in 1975, during the International Women’s Year. The first International Women’s Day observance occur...

Your Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM; Your Excellency George Talbot, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mini...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat launches a CARICOM Skilled Workers Programme on Monday, 6 March, 2023 at 10.30 am, with a short hybrid ceremony at its Headquarters in Georgetown Guyana. CARICOM Secretary-General Dr. Carla Barnett, the Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bar...

In keeping with the decision of CARICOM Heads of Government at their 44th Regular Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas, 15-17 February 2023, a CARICOM Special Mission went to Haiti today February 27, 2023 for a one day working visit. The mission, led by Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honourable An...

The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica W.I. Monday, February 27, 2023—A high-level delegation of royal African traditional leaders from AIDO Network International, will visit Jamaica from February 28 to March 6 for a series of activities hosted by the CARICOM Reparations Commission, in collaboration...

The CARIFORUM Legal Drafting E-Learning Programme has begun and we are please to share the details. For further details please contact the CARIFORUM Directorate at admin.epaunit@caricom.org....

CARICOM Heads of Government will explore working with companies servicing the Caribbean to find a solution to the current transportation woes facing the Community. “We’re looking at what kind of construct we can bring into play, recognising that there are existing companies that are servicing our...