Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in special session in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 November, 2014, for deliberations on the two current public health challenges facing the Community: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); and the Chikungunya outbreak. Heads of Government ex...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     In what could only be described as a  most memorable opening, the  13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) got underway in  Pointe-à-Pitre, Gua...

Fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda Happy Independence Day to you. At 33, ours is still a young star in the galaxy of older nations that form our world. Yet, already we have embedded in our society values and traditions that were achieved by others only after centuries of c...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Official Opening of the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) takes place at the Creole Beach Hotel, Guadeloupe on Monday evening, 03 November 2014. Deborah L...

It is an honour for me to welcome you on behalf of the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to this week of meetings devoted to Statistics.  Today’s Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) and Thursday’s Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Regiona...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The second annual meeting of National AIDS Programme Managers, Senior Health Officials and HIV and AIDS Regional partners, was held in Port-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 23-24 October 2014 with funding from the PANCAP Global Fund Roun...

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 22, 2014:  The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) will host workshops geared at strengthening the Caribbean’s ability to prepare and respond to outbreak situations such as the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. From November 17 &ndas...

The 19th Special Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) held in Washington DC, 27-28 September, has endorsed an initiative which the Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF) is facilitating under its CARICOM-PANCAP Global Fund Programme, aimed at transforming the health laboratory e...

As Chairman of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) I join the people of the Caribbean in expressing profound disappointment over the current state of affairs of West Indian cricket. The abrupt termination of the tour of India is a matter of deep distress, particularly as it has damaged the reputatio...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     — Under the theme, “Positioning the Partnership for Post-2015,” more than one hundred representatives of the  Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will meet for the 13th Annu...