CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has congratulated the Government and People of Trinidad and Tobago on the country’s 53rd Independence Anniversary. The Twin-Island Republic celebrates its fifty-third birthday on Monday 31st August 2015. In a letter to Prime Minister Hon. K...

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has expressed the Community’s sympathy to the Government and People of Dominica over the tragic loss of life and the widespread damage caused by the devastating passage of Tropical Storm Erika over the island, Th...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Nineteen students from tertiary institutions in Grenada are participating in a CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) mission to Belize next week – 30 August – 4 September 2015. The activity is part of ...

Chairperson, Honourable Suresh Algoe Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Fisheries, Chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee and Members of said Committee, President of the Caribbean Food Crop Society, Representatives of the University of Suriname, University of the West In...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated sister Caribbean nation Cuba and the United States on their ongoing moves to normalise relations. In a Statement to coincide with today’s reopening of the US Embassy in Havana, following the recent reopening of the Cuban Embassy in Washingto...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart, QC, MP, Prime Minister of Barbados, has welcomed the holding of the first round of elections in Haiti.  He said that the Community...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean can boast of having one of the highest immunization rates in the world - even better than the United States, and credit for this must go to the Region’s nurses. Assistant Secretary General for Hu...

To mark the occasion, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, dispatched a congratulatory message to Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller. On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) I extend hearty congratulations to you and the Peo...

Your Excellency, it is a pleasure for me, on this historic occasion to accept your Credentials accrediting you as the first Plenipotentiary Representative and the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).   The importance of the work of religious bodies in our cou...

A two-day meeting of the Regional Services Programme Advisory Committee began Monday morning at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana. Among the matters participants will address are the strategic and action plans for cultural and entertainment services, sport,...