The Caribbean's Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) received a significant boost from the Commonwealth Secretariat (COMSEC) last week when the way was cleared to proceed on three "uniquely Caribbean" studies relating to external negotiations. CARICOM Secretary General Mr Edwin Carrington revealed t...

The CARICOM Secretariat is concerned by suggestions coming out of Grenada and reported in the regional media that the CARICOM Common Market is not operating in an "equitable manner" The CARICOM Secretariat wishes to state that all decisions to approve or deny requests for suspensions of the Common E...

CARICOM Heads of Government are keenly interested in greater co-operation among countries of the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group. In making this point while addressing the South Pacific Forum Heads of State at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, the Honourable Hubert Ingrah...

The original inhabitants of Dominica celebrate Carib Week from September 14 through 21 under the theme "Striving Together for Progress and Unity". Historically regarded as the first inhabitants of the Caribbean territory, they now number 3 400 persons living on approximately three and a half acres o...

The meeting of the Regional Resource Team for Assistance to Montserrat scheduled for Saturday September 13 in Barbados has been postponed. The postponement is due to the visit to the United Kingdom of Montserrat's Chief Minister the Hon. David Brandt and a team of officials from the island for talks...

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, the Hon Hubert Ingraham will carry the message of ACP unity from the Caribbean to the Pacific when he addresses Pacific leaders in Rarotonga, Cook Islands on September 17. Mr Ingraham, who will be accompanied by CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington to the thre...

CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington has expressed "deep shock and sorrow" at the tragic Haitian ferry disaster which has reportedly claimed more than 400 lives. Mr Carrington, who spoke with Haitian Foreign Minister M. Fritz Longchamp on Monday, conveyed the Community's profound sympathy t...

Arrangements for the CARICOM Village at Davy Hill, Montserrat were put on the fast-track following the second meeting of the Regional Resource team for Montserrat on September 24. Chairman of CARICOM, the Rt Hon. Percival Patterson turned the sod to begin construction of the village on August 25 and...

The Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, meeting in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, on Tuesday, August 26, 1997, expressed its deep regret to the Government and people of Grenada and the family of the late Sir Eric Gairy at the passing of the former Prime Mini...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community mourns the passing of the Rt. Honourable Sir Eric Matthew Gairy KCMG, Trade Unionist, former Prime Minister of Grenada who passed away on Saturday evening 23 August 1997.   Sir Eric Matthew Gairy emerged at a time on the politica...