Member States of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are to benefit this year from a project to establish and enhance their standards management capacity. Three OECS States, the Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, are to be brought in li...

Plans for the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) are expected to be further advanced at a meeting in Barbados on 16 February 2000. The meeting will be held at the Grand Barbados Hotel. Attorney General of Barbados, the Hon. David Simmons Q.C, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee ...

Two high level appointments have been made to strengthen the executive management team at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana. Ambassador Albert Ramchand Ramdin, a top ranking official of the Republic of Suriname, was appointed Assistant Secretary General, Foreign and...

The establishment of the legal framework for the functioning of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) looms closer with the final touches being put to the last two instruments amending the Treaty of Chaguaramas. CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington speaking at a p...

Delegates to the Eighth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) have begun deliberating a number of key "bread and butter" issues pertinent to the well-being of the people of the Region. They will map definitive action in response to a number of challenges facing it, at a t...

A range of matters aimed at quickening the pace of, and strengthening the regional integration process in facing-up to the challenges in the new Century will be covered by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials when they meet in Georgetown on the 4-5 February, 2000 to prepare for the Eighth Ministe...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)/Canada cooperation continues with the signing today Wednesday, 2 February, 2000 of an agreement paving the way for the Regional organisation to receive funding for an electoral observation mission to Haiti in March this year. The agreement for one hundred thousand C...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) embarks this week on a busy round of activities of crucial importance to its future development. Officials from the CARICOM Secretariat, including the Secretary-General, Edwin W. Carrington, with representatives of the Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) including ...

The Third Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) got underway in Georgetown today 13 January, 2000 amidst optimism by top officials for the speedy implementation of decisions in the hands of this Council. In the context of the Year 2000, and recent fears about "the millenni...

The Third Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development takes place in Georgetown, Guyana on 13 and 14 January 2000. The Opening Session will begin at 09:30hrs, in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel. CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr. Edwin W. Carrington will deliver the Opening ...