KINGSTON, Jamaica (OPM) -- Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding told journalists on Friday that "interesting ideas have been discussed" at an informal caucus of Caribbean heads about the role of CARICOM in governance; and he hoped that a way forward would emerge. The conference continues until July 4. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- 'The time for preparation is past and the moment of performance is here,’ Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said on Thursday. Secretary-General Carrington was confident that there would be free and frank discourse during the Meeting. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opened Thursday evening at the National Cultural Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, with Heads of Government acknowledging the strides the integration movement. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Against the backdrop of reported alarming growth in the mis-use of illegal substance such as marijuana, alcohol, cocaine and alcohol, most obvious among teenagers, in Belize, the National Drug Abuse Control Council (NDAAC) of Belize has decided to take matters in its hands. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados, said this week that the Caribbean was faced with global economic convulsions of unprecedented proportions, which had reinforced convictions that regional integration “is the last best hope” for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (OPM) -- Prime Minister Bruce Golding has emphasized that within a single market, trade has to be rule based and cannot be dependent on an exporter getting hold of a Minister to call his counterpart in another country to sort out the situation. He said a smooth flow of trade is needed. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- CARICOM Leaders, on Thursday, were on one accord regarding the future of regional integration and subsequently the Community, as they opened the 30th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in Georgetown, Guyana. Leading the charge was Dean Oliver Barrow. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Percival James Patterson, on Thursday, charged Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to stand up and be counted for the Community. In accepting CARICOM’s highest honour, the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC)... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- The free movement of Caribbean nationals within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), one of the central goals of the regional integration movement, was once again brought to the fore by Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo at the opening ceremony of the 30th CARICOM Heads... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- In light of the fact that the 30th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be held in two days instead of the usual three, Head of State of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, hosted a caucus to address issues which are less contentious or pressing. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- The concerns by Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo about the threat of climate change on the fabric of human existence and the impact of the global financial crisis on the Caribbean Region have also been the concerns of several heads of government of CARICOM. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) will hold the twenty-ninth Meeting of its Board of Directors in Guyana July 7-9, 2009. CARICAD is a CARICOM institution, located in Barbados, and was established by the CARICOM Heads of Government in 1979. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opened in Georgetown, Guyana, on Thursday against the backdrop of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Grand Anse Declaration, signed in July 1989, in Grand Anse, Grenada. read more...

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Seeing Jamaican guest workers on a farm in Canada recently reminded me of the close relationship that has always existed between Canada and the Caribbean. Canada’s guest-worker programme for farms is as important to Canadian farmers, who need the labour, as payment for the work is... read more...

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My comments are regarding the integration crisis facing Caricom at present. At the risk of oversimplifying, I think that if the Caribbean Diaspora organized as a political and economic unit in the Diaspora, none of the problems facing Caribbean states would exist because we would be in a much better financial and... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson has made it clear his country is not in breach of the Revised Treaty of Chagauramas with its new immigration policy. Speaking at a media conference here on Wednesday ahead of the Caribbean Community heads of government conference... read more...

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I read recently that this week’s summit of the heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) will feature a packed agenda. Climate change is high on the list, according to CARICOM's secretary-general. Another item for discussion will be freedom of movement for CARICOM nationals. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Twentieth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Negotiations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was due to be convened in Georgetown, Guyana, July 1, 2009 to consider critical issues pertaining to the Community’s trade relations with Third States. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is embarking on a busy period in the trade negotiations arena as the Region prepares to implement already signed trade agreements while at the same time embark on negotiations for new agreements with a number of states. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma arrived in Guyana on Wednesday on a four-day official visit and is set to hold discussions with the government of Guyana, other senior officials and also attend the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Chief executive officer (CEO) of the Caribbean Development Fund (CDF), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, says the CDF is expected to cushion any shocks faced by smaller and more vulnerable economies and sectors within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have joined in the global condemnation of the military coup that removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office on Sunday. The Guyana government called for early reinstatement to office of the Honduran President. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Percival J Patterson, former Prime Minister of Jamaica will receive the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC), the Region’s highest award, on 2 July 2009 at the Opening Ceremony for the 30th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, in Georgetown Guyana. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Jamaica's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Kenneth Baugh, has said that next month's CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Guyana would address a number of critical regional issues in light of the global economic crisis. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo wants a clear cut decision on the controversies surrounding the free movement of skills in the region when the matter comes up for discussion Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Heads of Government Conference which opens here on Thursday. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s Cleveland Forde dominated the fifth edition of the Annual CARICOM 10K Road Race here on Sunday. Forde, who beat the reigning champion St Vincent and the Grenadine’s Pamenos Ballentyne into second place, finished the race in a time of 32. mins. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo, the incoming chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed a strong desire that a unanimous position on the financial sector would result from the 30th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting to be held here from July 2-5. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Programme Manager for Sustainable Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Beverly Reynolds, has called on Caribbean governments and stakeholders to "act now" to tackle drug trafficking and abuse in the region. She was addressing a Think Tank in Jamaica. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- June 26 is International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, and CARICOM Member States are embarking on a series of activities to mark the day. The CARICOM Secretariat in collaboration with Directors of National Councils on Drug Abuse is leading the way with... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Yet another effort by the CARICOM Secretariat to address the problem of substance abuse has been lauded as exceptional, by an international organization. Working in tandem with the European Union, the Secretariat conducted a two-day workshop for non-governmental organizations. read more...

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When heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) meet in early July, a big responsibility will fall on the shoulders of Guyana’s President Bharat Jagdeo as chairman to heal the wounds that are causing the regional project to haemorrhage. President Jagdeo will have to dig deep... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Region’s Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) are devising a Port Health protocol for the Influenza A H1N1 virus which will be presented to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government at their Thirtieth Meeting scheduled for 2-5 July in Guyana. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- A CARICOM working group on traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources is currently on a fact-finding mission in Jamaica. The group is made up of representatives from the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office and several of their counterparts in the region. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has intensified its offensive against illicit drug use with the focus, this time, on developing and strengthening social care and rehabilitation programmes for drug users, in a bid to mitigate the social and health consequences of substance abuse. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- When the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government meet in Georgetown, Guyana, July 2-5, 2009, matters of importance on the climate change agenda will be among global issues that will engage their attention. CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington told... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) needed to deduce best practice responses of individual Member States to the global financial and economic crisis that could be emulated by the entire Community. This was the view expressed by Dr Maurice Odle, Economic Adviser to CARICOM. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- In a region where people move freely, there is growing concern in the Caribbean over the spread of the H1N1 virus, and this has prompted Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) in Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to meet in an emergency session to craft protocols. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The consolidation of five institutions that provide public health services in the Caribbean Community and the operation of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) Coordinating Unit will be among the issues in the health sector up for discussion. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Tourism, Agriculture, Services, Free Movement of Skills within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) are among the major agenda items in the Economic Development cluster of the next meeting. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) is reporting satisfactory progress in its work, as a team led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, has commenced a series of consultative missions to Less Developed Countries (LDCs) in CARICOM. read more...

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