The Thirty-Fifth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Dickenson Bay, Antigua and Barbuda, from 1-4 July 2014. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne, chaired the proceedings. Other members of the C...

Why a new strategic plan and what do we hope to achieve A wide canvassing of views across the Caribbean Community told a clear message that there needs to be a refocussing, redirecting and reorganizing of the Community to move it forward and reignite the flames of integration. The Strategic Plan o...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Debt Advocacy Team is to be appointed to campaign for debt relief and/or debt amelioration on behalf of highly indebted CARICOM Member States. This was one of the key outcomes of the ...

The vision of the leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) articulated forty one (41) years ago has translated in today’s mandate of achieving regional integration through engaging, promoting and providing opportunities to Caribbean Member States to collectively direct the way forward. Ind...

Forty one years ago (July 4, 1973) the founding fathers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) came together and signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Community. Today we celebrate this anniversary on “CARICOM Day”, a day we set aside to commemorate all things CARICOM. This year is...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ms. Marion Bethel, the eleventh recipient of the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, in her acceptance speech, struck a resounding note  in her call to governments and civil society “to commit  wholehe...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     CARICOM Heads of Government engaged private sector ‘Captains of Industry’ on fostering business growth in the region, as several key development issues took centre stage on the first full day of the 35th ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     As the Region continues to take steps to respond to the economic challenges confronting it, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government are placing increased emphasis on the private sector as the engine of sust...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Today, history was created for the Caribbean Community with the debut of the CARICOM song titled Celebrating CARICOM. The occasion was the opening ceremony of the Thirty-Fifth meeting of the Caribbean Community Conference of Heads of Govern...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Even as the present cohort of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders returned to the place where political leaders in 1965 defined the integration ideals, CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Tuesday stressed the urgency of f...