CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Stalled for over eighteen months now, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) talks were brought back into the spotlight this week, by a meeting of FTAA Senior Trade Officials in Puebla, Mexico, August 25. At the meeting, CARICOM tabled a proposal – which receive...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues to focus on the full utilisation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the shaping of regional economies, ICT experts in the Region are taking steps to ensure that CARICOM's concerns at...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean’s youth and adolescent have been identified as being most vulnerable to the growing problem of substance use and abuse. Data put forward by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Commission, CICAD, reveal that the average age of “first-use...

  Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the invitation to join you at this luncheon and to share some perspectives and information on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The CSME has been long in the making, since 1989 - some say too long w...

INFORMAL PUEBLA MEETING A POSSIBLE ‘LIFE-LINE’ FOR STALLED FTAA TALKS CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Senior Trade Officials from several Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) countries will gather in Puebla, Mexico Thursday August 25 to discuss future funding arrangements for the Ameri...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has experienced both economic development and setbacks, but as it continues to focus on the December 2005 implementation of its Single Market and Economy (CSME), it is confident of a stronger and reorganised bloc, poised to ...

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

Hon. Samuel Hinds, Prime Minister of Guyana Hon. Mr. Justice Carl Singh, Chancellor of the Judiciary Hon. Ralph Ramkarran, Speaker of the National Assembly Hon. Samuel Insanally, Minister of Foreign Affairs and of CARICOM Affairs Other Distinguished Ministers of Government Members of the Diplom...

  Hon Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize 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 Centr...

WTO BANANA RULING DEVASTATING BLOW TO VULNERABLE CARIBBEAN ECONOMIES Region’s Banana-Producing Countries Risk being Squeezed out of Market CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Caribbean banana exporting countries have reacted with alarm to a ruling handed down Monday (August 1) by World Trade Organization (WTO...