The number of Caribbean Community States satisfying the legal requirement for the Free Movement of Skilled Persons has increased by two with the governments of Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines having recently enacted legislation to this effect. The Free Movement of Skilled Persons is among ...

The newly appointed Board of Directors of the CARICOM Foundation for Art and Culture held its inaugural meeting at the Pegasus Hotel in Jamaica on November 17, 1997. The Directors, who were appointed by the CARICOM Secretary General for a period of three years are: Ms Patricia Bishop, Trinidad and...

While most countries have ceased to regard violence against women, and in particular domestic violence, as a private matter, we in the CARICOM Region are still too indifferent, if not too tolerant, of violence against women. We are still a long way off from achieving the desired state of "Zero Toler...

The Community has been shocked and saddened by the sudden death of the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Mr George Chambers. Mr Chambers will be remembered by the Region for his commitment to the integration process. This commitment was ably demonstrated soon after he assumed office in 19...

The CARICOM Secretariat invites entries for a competition to select a logo for the 25thanniversary commemoration of the Caribbean Community in 1998. The competition is open to citizens of all Member States as well as the Associate Members, British Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands. A p...

Six CARICOM Heads of government are among the leaders of the 71-nation African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, gathering in Libreville the capital of the small French-speaking Central African State of Gabon, for their first ever summit. The ACP Group is a 22 year old organisation of dev...

A Regional Consultation on the ruling of the World Trade Organisation=s (WTO) Appellate Body with respect to the European Union=s banana regime was held recently at the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana. The Appellate body upheld the decision of the Di...

The Caribbean has begun to prepare for the first of the follow-up meetings with the United States after the May 10 Summit meeting in Barbados between the Region's leaders and US President Bill Clinton. At that meeting, joint committees were established to achieve the objectives of the Bridgetown Dec...

Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and their advisers concluded three days of intensive deliberations this afternoon in Basseterre, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, against the background of the global and regional economic situation, in the course of which the Conference took decisions on a wi...

A Special meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) took place in Barbados on 26th and 27th January, 1974 . All the four Member States of the Community were represented: Barbados by the Rt. Hon. Errol Barrow, Prime Minister; Guyana by Hon. Forbes Burnham...