Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin W. Carrington, is in Japan working with officials there to add new impetus to CARICOM-Japan cooperation with their immediate priority being to focus on establishing a Foreign Ministerial forum. This visit by the CARICOM Secretary-Ge...

The youth leadership in the Caribbean is moving into the main-stream of the regional decision-making process, making full use of the parliamentary process to give sound effect to the issues they considered urgent and critical to regional development and youth empowerment. Emerging from the just conc...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has noted that Haiti held the second round of its legislative, municipal and local elections on Sunday 9 July 2000. CARICOM regrets that after a satisfactory electoral process on 21 May 2000, a disputed interpretation of the electoral law was employed in determining...

Honourable Prime Minister Her Excellency the First Lady Former President and Leader of the Opposition Chancellor of the Judiciary Speaker of the National Assembly Honourable Ministers Members of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished Guests Deputy Secretary-General and Staff of the Secretariat Members o...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will say "thanks" to 31 members of staff who have provided between ten and thirty years of service in the discharge of the Secretariat's functions throughout the Community. The function will take place at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street, Georgetown, o...

More than 90 youth delegates representing 18 Caribbean territories move into the third round of deliberations today, up-beat on their course of action to make a formidable impact in moving forward the implementation of decisions and recommendations pertaining to the empowerment and development of Ca...

In my capacity as Lead Spokesman for the Caribbean Community on Bananas I sent off a letter on Saturday July 8, 2000 to the President of the General Affairs Council of the European Union Mr. Hubert Vedrine, expressing alarm at the recent proposals submitted by the Commission with a view to resolving...

One hundred and ten (110) Caribbean youth representing 22 countries will meet in Grenada, 17-23 July, 2000, to review the status of implementation of decisions and recommendations pertaining to the empowerment and development of Caribbean youth which have arisen out of conferences and workshops held...

Mr. President of the St. Vincent Chamber of Industry and Commerce; Members of the Chamber; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. I am delighted to be here this evening on the occasion of the Annual President's Dinner of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chamber of Industry and Commerce. You w...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson says developing countries must press ahead with plans to establish a working secretariat with the technical and professional competence to promote and defend their economic interests, matching if not surpassing the developed countries in efficiency and effectiveness. He...