The Eighteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) took place in Castries, Saint Lucia, on 21-22 May 2015, under the chairmanship of the Honourable Alva Baptiste, Minister for External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviatio...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Officials involved in the field of statistics will next week begin a four-day training session that will focus on the status of and requirements for the Region as it prepares for the post-2015 era. The Training Workshop by the Caribbea...

A four-day workshop on financing biodiversity in the Region being held by the CARICOM Secretariat at theCity View Hotel in Antigua and Barbuda ended on Thursday. The CARICOM Secretariat has partnered with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Government of Antigua and Barbu...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is diversifying and widening its foreign policy thrust in response to shifts in balance of powers as well as the dynamic and fluid changes taking place in the global environment. While it was both challenging and necessary, the Community has also acknowledged and r...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has extended condolences to the Government and people of Guyana following the mining disaster in Konawaruk on Sunday, 17 May, that claimed the lives of at least ten miners. The Community has also wished a speedy and full recovery  to miners who were injured. Please...

The Caribbean Community ( CARICOM’s) engagement with important third countries is among matters on a packed agenda of a Meeting of the Region’s Foreign Ministers in Saint Lucia, 20–22 May, 2015. This Eighteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) will also discuss mo...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat welcomes the decision of Canada to seek a new waiver in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for the CARIBCAN arrangements. The Secretariat looks forward to its early approval which will ensur...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will mount a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to monitor the general elections to be held in Suriname on Monday 25 May, 2015. The Mission will be headed by Mr. Ian Browne, the Deputy Chief Elections Officer in Barbados. Mr. Browne has served as a member of severa...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat’s expansion of its involvement in biodiversity in the Region is timely as it coincides with work being undertaken to establish a  post-2015 sustainable development agenda  in which biodiversity conservation and restoration ...

(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...