It is with profound sadness that I received the news of the passing on Saturday, 26 August 2000 of the Rt. Hon. Sir Lynden Pindling, KCMG, former Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. He was one of the longest serving and most influential Head of Government of the Caribbean Community (C...

The twin-island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is embracing its Caribbean brothers and sisters from Member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and beyond, as some twenty countries from the Region have converged on the host country of CARIFESTA VII to share in a milieu of activities po...

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin Carrington, has appealed to Caribbean artistes participating in CARIFESTA VII in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis to take advantage of new technologies to enhance the effectiveness and the economic profitability of their cultural produ...

Welcome again to the smallest country to host this Region's greatest exposition of Arts and Culture! This reference to our size is not an excuse by any means ... please feel free to consider it a boast that small as we are... our pride and joy at having you here cannot be surpassed. Over the next te...

Attorneys-General and Presidents of Bar and Law Associations from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will meet in Saint Lucia on 16 August, 2000 to discuss the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The one-day meeting will provide an opportunity for dialogue between the leaders of ...

Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have formed a group to formulate and implement strategies which will articulate CARICOM's position in the face of continued attacks on the Region's offshore sector by the G7 through three agencies it has established. The CARICOM group is called the ...

Mr. Chairman,Mr. Assistant Secretary General,Distinguished Colleagues,Delegates, The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been closely monitoring the political and electoral events in Haiti leading up to and following the elections on 21 May and 9 July 2000. Haiti is an incoming Member of the Caribbean...

The people of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are being urged to explore new avenues of wealth creation as offered through the Regional Stock Exchange currently in operation in Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The Economic Intelligence and Policy Unit of the CARICOM Secretariat, which i...

Mr Chairman, Dr Martin Boodhoo His Excellency Mr Jacques Crête, High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana Justice Donald Trotman, President of the UN Association of Guyana Justice Rudolph Harper, Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee of the United Nations Association of Guyana Members of the U...

Twenty seven Caribbean youth leaders have been invested as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors at the just concluded Regional Youth Explosion 2000 at the St George's University Campus in St. George's, Grenada (17-23 July, 2000) to take forward a goodwill mission for Youth empowerment in ...