Salutations The CARICOM Secretariat wishes to thank the Caribbean Food Crops Society for the opportunity to discuss the challenges for the Caribbean Community in these early years of the 21st Century and onward. Ambassador Irwin LaRocque regrets not being able to be here but as recently as a few day...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are in London, England this week to participate in the Sixth United Kingdom (UK)–Caribbean Forum at Lancaster House. During the two-day business sessions on 15 and16 July, the For...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Geater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) the Honourable Baldwin Spencer Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda invited the thousands of visitors to Expo Zaragoza 2008 to come to the Caribbean. Speaking at a ceremony marking CARICOM Day o...

I. PREAMBLE I am honoured by the invitation of the Caribbean Food Crops Society to speak at its Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting. Your longevity is indicative of an accumulation of knowledge and service to the agricultural sector of the Caribbean which I, a mere Economist and occasional dabbler in the sp...

There is an old truism that Water is Life. This is borne out by the 2002 United Nations World Water Development Report, which, among other things, states that, “…of all the social and natural resource crises, we humans face, the water crisis is the one that lies at the heart of our surv...

There is an old truism that Water is Life. This is borne out by the 2002 United Nations World Water Development Report, which, among other things, states that, “…of all the social and natural resource crises, we humans face, the water crisis is the one that lies at the heart of our surv...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Kingdom of Spain have signed a Joint Declaration that encompasses issues ranging from political dialogue to economic and cultural development. The Joint Declaration was signed at the conclusio...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Kingdom of Spain have signed a Joint Declaration that encompasses issues ranging from political dialogue to economic and cultural development. The Joint Declaration was signed at the conclusio...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Fourth CARICOM/Spain Summit takes place at the Moncloa Palace, Madrid, Spain, on Friday 11 July 2008 against the backdrop of the celebration of CARICOM Day at the World’s Fair in Zaragoza, Spain on 12 July 2008. Caribbean Communit...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Newspaper Editors and Youth Ambassadors will participate in workshops on CARICOM regional integration in Antigua and Barbuda during mid-July 2008. The CARICOM Secretariat will be hosting a workshop on 14 July 2...