(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Commission (EC) and the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) is to be signed in July 2008. At the Twenty-Sixth Special Meeting of the Council for ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Jamaica and Guyana are to hold discussions at the highest level to find a solution to the current rice impasse. The rice issue was raised at the just-concluded Twenty-Sixth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have reiterated the need for a strong development component, and a structure that caters for political involvement in the upcoming negotiations with Canada. CARICOM and Canada are soon...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trade Ministers of the Caribbean Community, meeting at the Twenty-Sixth Special Meeting for the Council of Trade and Economic Development in Antigua and Barbuda on 10 May 2008, examined various issues relating to the Region’s banana i...

The Eleventh Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community was held in Bolans Village, Antigua and Barbuda, 7-9 May 2008, under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda. The Mi...

Fully aware of its own vulnerability to natural catastrophes, and having repeatedly experienced the devastating effects of hurricanes, Ministers expressed their sympathy and solidarity with the people of Myanmar following last week’s disastrous cyclone which, by some accounts, is estimated to ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) and the European Commission, recently signed a Financing Agreement totalling US$ 2.45 million to support the Caribbean Region in the Sustainable Management of its...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The tenth staging of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA X) is set to attract record participation from Caribbean Latin American, North American and European countries according to Guyana’s Minister of Culture, Youth and Spo...

Her Excellency Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of COFCOR, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer Honourable Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Attorney-General o...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The crafting of the Caribbean Community’s response to the rapidly changing international and hemispheric environment and acknowledgement of the shifting priorities of CARICOM’s traditional partners, are among the issues regional...