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The View from Europe: The crucial importance of a new regional private sector organisation
17 December 2017 BY DAVID JESSOP A little over a week ago, private sector associations from around the Caribbean agreed to establish by June of next year a new regional body able to represent their interests authoritatively to CARICOM. The…
Caribbean Countries split vote on issue of Jerusalem
By Wesley Kirton From South Florida Caribbean News SOUTH FLORIDA – I must salute the Governments of the seven CARICOM countries- Guyana, Suriname, Belize, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica -for their vote on Thursday in the United…
CARICOM Secretary General says despite the storms, Caribbean achieved much in 2017
CMC From Nation News GEORGETOWN − Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Irwin LaRocque, Friday said 2017 will be remembered for the various events that had a lasting impact on the 15-member regional integration grouping, none more so that the damage…
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Sir Ronald Sanders: Where’s the Golding Report on CARICOM?
By Sir Ronald Sanders Today’s Caribbean From Barbados Today What has become of the Report of a Jamaican Commission that reviewed the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)? It has been almost nine months since the commission’s chairman, Bruce Golding,…
CARICOM-Cuba Summit agrees to stronger development, trade and economic cooperation
From CARICOM Stronger cooperation in disaster risk management and in climate change adaptation and mitigation is among the major decisions of the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit, held in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday 8 December 2017. Strengthening ties on this very…
Cuban president arrives in Antigua and Barbuda for CARICOM-Cuba summit
From Caribbean News Now ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Cuban President Raul Castro arrived on Thursday morning in Antigua and Barbuda on an official visit to attend the sixth Cuba-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Summit. The Cuban leader was received at the V.C….
The View From Europe: reshaping inter-regional trade and investment
BY DAVID JESSOP From Barbados Advocate For decades, the Caribbean has been fixated on the need to export to, and import from its traditional markets in North America and Europe. It has also sought to encourage visitor arrivals from the…
OECS and CARICOM to hold joint session in support of OECS Competition Authority
On November 24, 2017 the Commissioners of the CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) will convene a meeting at the Coco Resort in St. Lucia. On the Agenda is a joint session with the OECS Commission to support the establishment of an…
Leaders, officials in New York for hurricane pledging conference
By Bert Wilkinson |From Amsterdam News Caribbean leaders and officials were in New York this week for a major international pledging conference aimed at raising more than $3 billion to help rebuild several islands nations that were pulverized by back-to-back…
CARICOM leaders urged to place crime on agenda
From Caribbean National Weekly The Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs in Barbados – Adriel Brathwaite has urged Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders to place crime, as well as disaster management, on their agenda for the next meeting of heads…
