Statisticians from Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began a 4-day meeting in Georgetown, Guyana today Monday 10th January, 2000. High on the agenda at this the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians are population and housing censuses matters,...

Today's dawning of the year 2000 puts us on the very doorstep of the much- heralded 21st Century and Third Millennium. Not so long ago, these milestones in time were seen as distant landmarks in man's progress. Today, they are all but here and so are many of the futuristic fantasies associated with ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, the Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago presented "a CARICOM gift of love" to the people of Montserrat on Wednesday 29 December 1999. In a ceremony at Lookout in the north of the island, attended by His Excellency the Governor of Mont...

Chief Minister of Montserrat, the Hon. David Brandt described his island's CARICOM Village as a "monument to CARICOM and the ideal of integration." The Chief Minister was speaking on Wednesday  at the official handing-over ceremony of the first phase of the Village comprising of 15 three-bedroo...

The Caribbean Community has been advised that yet another shipment of hazardous waste is soon to leave Europe for Japan. Heads of Government once again reiterate their unwavering opposition and that of the people of the Region to the choice of the Caribbean Sea as the preferred route for the transhi...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, the Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago will on Wednesday December 29, 1999 officially hand over 15 houses to the people of Montserrat. This comprises the first phase of the CARICOM Village being built by the Caribbean Community for t...

1.    This is the last report on the Political Dialogue for 1999. It covers the period from 14 June 1999 to the present. 2.    You will recall that I have issued Press Statements in relation to the work of the Dialogue on 14 June 1999 and on 3 September 1999. My previou...

Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Kenny D. Anthony in his capacity as CARICOM Head of Government with responsibility for spearheading CARICOM's support to the process of political normalisation in Guyana, today held discussions with CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington in Castries Saint Lucia, on ...

The CARICOM Secretariat today announced the retirement at the end of 1999 of Mr Cyril Egbert Berridge, long-serving Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO). The Caribbean Meteorological Organization, with headquarters in Trinidad, is one of the oldest Caribbean insti...

The CARICOM Secretariat and the University of the West Indies (UWI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at fostering greater co-operation between the two Institutions. CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington signed on behalf of the Secretariat and Principal of UWI's Mona Campus, P...