COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE 15TH MEETING OF PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN REGION, MARCH 29 – APRIL 1, 2016, SANDALS GRANDE ANTIGUA RESORT AND SPA, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA The 15th Meeting of Presidents and Governors-General of the Caribbean Region was held at...

 The CARICOM Secretariat is hosting a two-day sensitization workshop on Free Movement within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) starting Wednesday, March 23, 2016 in Trinidad and Tobago. The aim is to share information and increase awareness of the free movement regimes. The target gr...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expresses its grave concern over the incident which took place at the Sarstoon River, the southern boundary of Belize with the Republic of Guatemala, between Belizean Security Forces and Guatemalan Armed Forces (GAF) on 12 March 2016. The GAF entered Belizean intern...

Joint Press Communique Cariforum-European Union Political Dialogue at the Level of Senior Officials 15 March 2016 1. CARIFORUM and European Union (EU) senior officials held a one-day political dialogue in Georgetown, Guyana on 15 March 2016, at which they reaffirmed the two regions’ commitm...

Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) partners committed to implementing high impact cost effective interventions to sustain national and regional responses. This commitment was made at the Fourth Annual Meeting of National AIDS Programme Managers and Key Partners, which concluded ...

In welcoming you all to this Meeting of the Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM, allow me to extend a special greeting to those Ministers attending their first meeting of this Council. Included among them is today’s Chairman, the Honourable Jean Max Bellerive of Haiti. Also attending their firs...

First it was in only English. There Dutch. Now thanks to the Caribbean Regional Information and Translation Institute (CRITI) there is also a French version of The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) including the CSME. On Monday evening, Chair of ...

A US$770,000 grant support package will become available to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States from the Republic of Kazakhstan to strengthen capacity in the areas of climate change and sustainable development. CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Ambassador of Kazakhsta...

The CARICOM Secretariat, under the Agriculture Policy Programme (APP), is financing the development of a Policy and Action Plan for the Commonwealth of Dominica’s agriculture sector. This process, which is being led by the Ministry of Agriculture of Dominica and an APP-supported local consulta...

Community Institutions issue Joint Statement The CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) and the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) have expressed concern about the new global threat of antibiotics resistance. In a Joint Statement issued on the occasion of World Consumer Rig...