Forty years ago, an air of expectation and spirit of hope filled the Caribbean air.  The Commonwealth Caribbean had made the move from the free trade area of Dickenson Bay to the Community and Common Market of Chaguaramas.  The Georgetown Accord had been transformed into the Treaty of Chag...

Forty years ago four distinguished Heads of Government of this region, summoned by the logic of history to be bold at that time, met here in Trinidad and Tobago and signed what the then Prime Minister of Guyana, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham said should become known as the Treaty of Chaguaramas. O...

On this night, July 3 1973, 40 years ago, a feeling of expectation and spirit of hope filled the Caribbean air. The Commonwealth Caribbean was poised to make the move from the 1965 free trade area of Dickenson Bay, CARIFTA, to the Community and Common Market of Chaguaramas, CARICOM.  The 1973...

The Live Stream of the Opening Ceremony of the Heads of CARICOM Summit will be available at the following URL’s at 6:00 PM today.   ·         On the homepage of http://www.news.gov.tt ·     &nbsp...

Today’s historic launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) demonstrates clearly to this Region how the co-operative deployment of many skills to achieve one objective can be of collective benefit. We had long recognised the desirability of creating such an institution.  The ...

I wish at the very outset to express my sincere appreciation to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for affording me the opportunity to bring these brief remarks to you at the Opening of this 8th Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour. This meetin...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which o...

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana -  There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Se...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) United, cohesive, productive, enabling, progressive! That’s the kind of Community in which youth of the Region wish to live. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) youths took to the twittersphere on Sunday to share their views on the Co...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The effects of the current economic climate on Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major agenda item at the upcoming Thirty-fourth Meet...