The Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda from 1-4 July 2008. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer presided. Other members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime M...

The Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda from 1-4 July 2008. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer presided. Other members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime M...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana President, His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo said the treatment meted out to some Caribbean nationals by immigration officers at some Caribbean ports of entry was posing a direct threat to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Professor Barbara Evelyn Bailey, Jamaican by birth and a Caribbean woman by disposition, has distinguished herself as an educator and as an advocate of gender equality and equity in the Caribbean Community and beyond. She has done so ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) George Lamming, poet, novelist, essay writer, orator, lecturer, teacher, editor and tireless activist for a new world-order and a New-World order, seems to have entered the world of Caribbean letters as an elder statesman. Born on June 8, 1...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The computer was a mere thought in 1933, the year Rex Nettleford was born in the parish of Trelawny on the edge of Jamaica's Cockpit Country. In those days, babies cooed, giggled and googled when they were fed and felt content – a...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) English-speaking Caribbean communities have made their greatest single cultural investment in the cricket enterprise. Citizens have come to measure the extent of community detachment from the oppressive grip of the colonial scaffold in term...

The distance from Grand Bay in the south-east corner of Dominica to Government House in Roseau is not much more than ten miles, but for His Excellency Dr. Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool, President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, it has been an extraordinary journey by way of Britain, most of the...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica, in an unequivocal statement on Tuesday (1 July 2008) to the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government re-affirmed his country's commitment to CARICOM. Prime Minister Gold...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) New Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Hon Baldwin Spencer has cited the issue of regional security as one of the most critical issues to be tackled by the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of t...