(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Board of Directors of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has set 24 August 2009 as the date for the commencement of full operations of the CDF. The date was set after the 5th Regular Board Meeting approved the regulations and pr...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The second phase of a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) project to expose tertiary-level education students to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) started on Monday 10 August 2009 with a pre-mission briefing in Saint Lucia. Similar ses...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In response to enquiries following yesterday’s Press Release, (WICB-WIPA Mediation Enters Second Stage), Sir Shridath Ramphal today gave the following clarification: “For the removal of doubt and avoidance of misunderstanding, I...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The West Indies Cricket Board – West Indies Players Association (WICB-WIPA) Mediation Agreement reached in Georgetown, Guyana on 21 July 2009, under the good offices of the Chairman of CARICOM, H.E. President Bharat Jagdeo, called for...

The Honourable E.V.K.S. Elangovan, Minister of State for Commerce, India; Hon. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General, CARCIOM; Fellow CARICOM Trade Ministers; Your Excellency, Virendra Gupta, High Commissioner of India to Trinidad and Tobago; Members of the Indian Delegation; Representatives of the In...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, announced today three recent appointments to the CDF’s senior management team. The CDF has appointed Mr. Arden Warner as its Legal C...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The winning design for the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) Logo Competition was unveiled during a presentation ceremony at the CDF’s Barbados Headquarters on Friday 31 July 2009. The winner, Miguel Hastings, a Jamaican national residin...

Hon Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize Hon Secretary-General of CARICOM Ministers of Government of Belize His Excellency Dr. John Ashe, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre D...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Governments in the Caribbean must strengthen their National Statistical Offices in respect of human, infrastructural and financial resources in order for statistics to make a meaningful contribution to regional development. This is the view...

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Special focus on the role of statistics at this juncture was critical to the development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), particularly in light of the global economic and financial crisis which was adversely affectin...