(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is indeed my great pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegations of Japan and of CARICOM to this Fifteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation. Our Japanese colleagues are no strangers to our Caribbean shores. Indeed the...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Japan’s Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Yoshimasa Tezuka, has declared that despite its modest size, the Community has significant political leverage when seeking to promote its interests in the interna...

​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is indeed my great pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegations of Japan and of CARICOM to this Fifteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation.Our Japanese colleagues are no strangers to our Caribbean shores. Indeed the...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Senior officials from Japan are to meet with senior officials of the Caribbean Community in their Fifteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation, which opens on Monday, at the Georgetown based CARICOM Secretariat. The CARICOM-Japan Consultation provi...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Connect to the Americas Summit opened in Panama City on Wednesday with a chorus of calls for the speedy roll-out of secure and affordable and access broadband connectivity and digital inclusion, which gives everyone affordable access to...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Grenada’s Finance and Planning Minister the Hon Nazim Burke has called for “renewed funding opportunities in Information and Communication Technologies for developing countries to avoid “remaining on the wrong side of the ...

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Nine CARICOM Member States participated in a multi-stakeholder meeting within the margins of the Connect the Americas Summit to showcase their projects and woo potential investors. The Multi-stakeholder meeting brought together potential inv...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The working session of the Connect Americas Summit began in the afternoon of Wednesday July 18 with two high-level panels discussing critical issues related to Broadband development. The first panel discussion session focussed on the topic ...

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Third Meeting of the CARICOM Council on Human and Social Development (COHSOD XXIII) views with grave concern the alarming prevalence of sexual abuse of children in Member States. COHSOD reviewed the overwhelming evidence documente...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)It is with pleasure that I accepted the opportunity to address you today. The Secretary General has asked that I convey to you his sincere regrets that prior commitments do not make it possible for him to be here especially when His Excellen...