BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNIS) -- The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Assistant Secretary General Human and Social Development, Edward Greene is impressed with the knowledge and passion of young people in St Kitts and Nevis. Greene noted that while most youth in the region appear... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Inaugural Symposium on Current Developments in Caribbean Law in Trinidad and Tobago last week saw Leaders of Government and Opposition echoing calls for renewed commitment to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Speakers featured at the opening... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Ambassador Gail Mathurin, Director-General of the Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat indicated on Monday that the Region was satisfied with the first round of the CARICOM/Canada Trade and Development Negotiations. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The new Director-General of the Caribbean Community’s Office of Trade Negotiations, Gail Mathurin was formally introduced to the Region on Monday 16 November, 2009. The introduction was conducted at media briefing, via video conference involving the media in Guyana and Barbados. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Georgetown, Guyana-based Caribbean Community secretariat has launched a campaign to promote the Region’s collective position on climate change leading up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month. read more...

---

ROME, Italy -- Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and president of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo wants the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support the Caribbean’s agriculture plan. Jagdeo has responsibility for agriculture in the CARICOM Quasi Cabinet. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo, who is also responsible for Agriculture in the Quasi Cabinet of the regional grouping, believes policy makers are losing sight of the importance of agriculture in ensuring regional food security. read more...

---

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- Climate change and the global financial and economic crises were among issues discussed last week between Caribbean and United States diplomats at the United Nations. St Kitts and Nevis’ Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Delano Bart, QC, chaired the meeting. read more...

---

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- Some 25 students from the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados will soon be off to St Kitts and Nevis to experience the workings of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The students are due to arrive from Barbados on November 22, 2009. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Renewed calls for a consolidation and deepening of the integration movement particularly within the contexts of the development of a rules-based Community and the prevailing economic climate were the common themes at the opening ceremony of a high level law symposium. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will mount an Observer Mission to St Vincent and the Grenadines when nationals of this CARICOM Member State vote in a National Referendum for the approval of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Constitution Bill, 2009. read more...

---

“Migration not infrequently gets a bad press. Negative stereotypes, portraying migrants as ‘stealing our jobs’ or ‘scrounging off the taxpayer’, abound in sections of the media and public opinion especially in time of recession”. That is the opening sentence of the United Nations Human Development Report 2009. read more...

---

Who says CSME does not create jobs? All one needs to do is a quick online search to discover that a whole new cottage industry has emerged. Namely: Workshops and Seminars. On any given day there is a workshop or seminar designed to educate, inform, "help the average citizen learn more about..." CSME. read more...

---

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (JIS) -- The Fifth Hemispheric Forum on Agriculture and Rural Life in the Americas came to a close on Thursday in Jamaica with ministerial delegates signing a 16-point agreement, which sets out an action plan to boost agricultural production in the region. read more...

---

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas has been praised for his sterling contribution to the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP). CARICOM’s Secretary General Edwin Carrington lauded the work of Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington on Thursday lauded the work of Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), which he said had “demonstrated the effectiveness of functional cooperation.” read more...

---

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- St Kitts and Nevis was among the 187 nations that voted this week for an end to the United States economic and trade embargo against Cuba. The vote recorded was 187 in favour to 3 against and 2 abstentions. The 192-Member Assembly in its resolution urged the lifting of the stiff... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Young people from six Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, yesterday, completed a three-day training programme in Edutainment ,designed to assist them to influence their peers positively through that method. The CARICOM Secretariat partnered with the... read more...

---

GEORGTOWN, Guyana -- Meaningful and lasting partnerships are critical to an effective response to HIV and AIDS in the Pan Caribbean region, particularly in the face of stern social and economic challenges. These were the views expressed when the 65-member Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Edwin Carrington has stated that he knows of no plans by the Community or its Secretariat to licence journalists. The Secretary-General said he made this "absolutely clear" to President of the Association of Caribbean Mediaworkers Wesley Gibbings. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett says Guyana is going full blast to implement of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) and called on sister member states to view this process as critical to the region's survival. read more...

---

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to benefit from an injection of 165 million Euros, or close to JA$22 billion, in funding from the European Commission as part of its ongoing support for regional integration. This was disclosed by Head of Section, Helen Jenkinson. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- In spite of the challenges facing the agriculture sector in the Region, the Caribbean Community remained convinced that agriculture was an important contributor to rural development, employment creation and export earnings, and to the overall sustainable development. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) -- The number of people with HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean is on the decline, but more must be done to contain the disease, a senior official said, on the eve of a regional meeting on the ailment. Latest statistics show that 230,000 people in the Caribbean live with HIV and AIDS. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Under the theme Towards Universal Access: Enhancing the Multi-sectoral Response to HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, more than 150 representatives of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will meet for the Ninth Annual General Meeting in Grenada. read more...

---

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Lynne Anne Williams has been confirmed as Executive Director of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS). The decision, which officially became effective on the 1st September 2009, was taken in Belize in March 2009. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are expecting the first shipment of the HINI vaccine to arrive in the region late November, as they prepare for further attacks from the H1N1 Virus otherwise known as, the swine flu. The vaccine will provide immunisation... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Newspaper editors from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be participating in a workshop on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Jamaica from 22-23 October 2009. The workshop is organized by the CARICOM Secretariat with funding provided... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean needs to have more investment in agriculture if the sector is to match the increasing demand to produce more food in order to ensure food security for the Caribbean. The CARICOM Secretariat, through CARDI is also involved in this collaboration. read more...

---

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- Member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) remain ardent proponents of a more effective and efficient United Nations development system through strengthened governance and improved financing of operational activities for development. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Three Ministries of Agriculture in Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are in line to receive assistance to develop information and communication strategies as a first step towards mainstreaming communications in the work of the Ministries of Agriculture. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo has raised concerns over what he termed a “conflict of interest” by the chairman of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Trust Fund Dr Rollin Bernard since he is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL)... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and president of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, said his recent meting with the World Bank president Robert Zoellick in Istanbul, Turkey, was focused on debt relief for Caribbean countries and he has been arguing for Caribbean countries... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- A format to facilitate dialogue between media professionals and the agriculture sector, which was pioneered by the Caribbean, is now being used by countries of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states to assist in bridging the divide between the two sectors. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The free movement of labour and goods, reduction of the food import bill, and strategies to ensure the general public’s effective participation in the CSME were among the key issues raised at an Open Forum of the Convocation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
read more...

---

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- ”If Caribbean Community is to successfully deal with the current economic difficulties, the public and private sector along with civil society must remain engaged in the forging of architecture for the successful implementation of a workable economic policy framework.” read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Region’s private sector and labour are of one accord on the necessity for a more concerted effort by Member States to advance the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). At the opening ceremony of the convocation on the CSME on Friday morning in Bridgetown, Barbados... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Director of Human and Social Development in the CARICOM Secretariat, Myrna Bernard is advocating for formal education on Gender-Based Violence (GBV). She said a gender perspective should be integrated in that curriculum as part of a broader approach to addressing life skills. read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) opened in Bridgetown, Barbados, Thursday morning with a weighty agenda that included the consideration of the Report of the Audit on the CARICOM Single Market, and the improvement of practices... read more...

---

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Caribbean leaders including current CARICOM chairman, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo met with the president of the World Bank Robert Zoellick on Wednesday in Istanbul, Turkey, to lobby for debt relief for the region. Jagdeo lobbied the World Bank head to pay special attention. read more...

---