Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of State and Government Delegates: The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer, is unable to be here with us in St. Kitts & Nevis for this meeting.  He has asked me to convey his sincere regret to his colleagues and to the mee...

Experts from the health sector across the Caribbean Community will discuss health matters, particularly as they relate to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy at two meetings during the period 26-29 March in Kingston, Jamaica. On 26 and 27 March, the regional body, the Caribbean Association of Me...

Madam Chair, Honourable Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Other Ministers of Finance and Planning Central Bank Governors Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations Distinguished Delegates and Officials Staff of the Caribbean Community Secretariat Membe...

Madam Chair, Hon. Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Other Ministers of Finance and Planning Central Bank Governors Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations Distinguished Delegates and Officials Staff of the Caribbean Community Secretariat Members of the Media Ladi...

The situation in Haiti will top the agenda as Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet in St Kitts and Nevis for the Fifteenth Inter-sessional Meeting of the Conference. The two-day meeting from March 25-26 will take place at the headquarters of the Eastern Caribbean Central B...

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The Seventeenth Meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) was not reconvened as previously scheduled, on March 18 to 19. A decision has been taken to postpone the TNC. The decision came at the close of an Informal Meeting...

The Caribbean Community has demonstrated considerable diplomatic capacity in formulating the CARICOM Initiative in respect of the ongoing Haitian political crisis. CARICOM has achieved as well a remarkable sense of unity in its response to the aftermath of former President Aristide’s sudden de...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) concluded its second free trade agreement with a country in the wider Caribbean with the signature of the CARICOM-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement today in Jamaica. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson on behalf of CARICOM and Presi...

Winner of the Junior category of the Regional Art Competition, Zennisha Richards, has made a special plea to Ministers of Education of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to make Art a compulsory subject and not an extra-curricular subject on the timetable. At a brief prize giving ceremony held at t...

CARICOM under my Chairmanship has been deeply involved in the search for a solution to the political crisis in Haiti. Following the departure of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide a new President has taken the Oath of Office. A Council of Wise Persons has been chosen which has in turn recom...