Heads of Government Conference (HGC)

CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding

CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 22 March, 2024.  Following a landmark Public Signing Ceremony for the Pandemic Fund (PF) Technical Cooperation Agreement (“Reducing the Public Health Impact of Pandemics in the Caribbean through Prevention, Preparedness, and Response” [RG-T4387] Project) on December 14, 2023, in Trinidad, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) continues to […]

Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis

Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis

Castries, Saint Lucia, 21 March 2024. Violence is rightly examined as a public health issue, because it affects physical, mental, and psychosocial health, it affects the individual families, andcommunities. Violence plagues the Region and represents a huge burden on health systems and has major economic costs to society as a whole. “It is for this […]

Everybody must eat!

Everybody must eat!

The populace of the Caribbean Community is encouraged to take advantage of a multi-billion market opportunity to create new industries that will lead to new economic prospects, intra-regional trade and cross-border investments. Shaun Baugh, CARICOM Programme Manager, Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Development, referenced the multi-billion-dollar opportunity as he explained how the Region intends to achieve its […]

CARICOM Heads of Gov’t to private sector: invest more in agriculture

CARICOM Heads of Gov’t to private sector: invest more in agriculture

CARICOM Heads of Government want regional businesses to take advantage of Suriname’s offer of land for agricultural development. This was confirmed in the Communique issued at the end of the Forty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government. “Heads of Government … strongly encouraged the regional private sector to take advantage of the proposal […]

Agriculture exhibition on sidelines of 46th Heads of Government Meeting

Agriculture exhibition on sidelines of 46th Heads of Government Meeting

The CARICOM Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of Guyana, The University of the West Indies, and other partners, held an agricultural exhibition on the grounds of the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana last week to raise awareness of the Region’s agricultural potential as it makes progress to achieve the goals of the […]

Region on track for full free movement by March month end – PM Mottley

Region on track for full free movement by March month end – PM Mottley

“We are on target.” CARICOM Heads of Government are expected to meet by the middle of March for anticipated sign-offon the arrangements to facilitate the free and full movement of CARICOM nationals by the end of thatmonth, the Hon. Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, said Wednesday. Free movement ofCARICOM nationals is one of the […]

CARICOM’s 50th anniversary rum blend launched during the 46th Regular Meeting in Guyana

CARICOM’s 50th anniversary rum blend launched during the 46th Regular Meeting in Guyana

The Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, the Honourable Philip J. Pierre this week presented the new CARICOM 50th Anniversary Rum Blend from the Saint Lucia Distillers Group to His Excellency Mohamed Irfaan Alli, President of Guyana and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The CARICOM Chairman received the rum blend during the ongoing 46th Regular […]

Region working to eliminate hunger, malnutrition by 2030 – CARICOM Chair

Region working to eliminate hunger, malnutrition by 2030 – CARICOM Chair

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is taking steps to eliminate hunger and malnutrition by 2030, His Excellency Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Chairman of the Community and President of Guyana, announced on Sunday. Delivering the feature address at the opening of the Forty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM which is currently underway […]

CARICOM on course to meet 25 by 2025 Food Security Initiative targets – PM Skerrit

CARICOM on course to meet 25 by 2025 Food Security Initiative targets – PM Skerrit

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) remains on course to achieve the goals identified under the 25 by 2025 Initiative, Prime Minister of Dominica, the Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit said on Monday. Prime Minister Skerrit, who is the outgoing Chairman of CARICOM, was at the time addressing the audience at the National Cultural Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, on […]

Commonwealth Secretary-General joins CARICOM Heads of Government for Meeting in Guyana

Commonwealth Secretary-General joins CARICOM Heads of Government for Meeting in Guyana

A team from the Commonwealth Secretariat, led by the Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, is in Guyana for the 46th Regular Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government. This is part of a series of regional meetings that she is attending in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting later this […]