Jamaica will host the Forty-ninth (49th) Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) from 6-8 July in Montego Bay. Dr the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, is the Incoming Chair (1 July to 31 December 2025) and will preside over the Meeting. The opening ceremony, … Continue reading Jamaica to host the next Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government
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These are questions that many organizations must face. How do you move forward on an agenda when the implications of doing so are different, or perhaps negative, for some of your members? In a time of international competition, it is possible to conceive of smaller members being better off outside the organization that was built … Continue reading What price progress? What price protection?
June 18, 2025 (Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – The recently concluded Sixtieth (60th) Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) marked significant progress in advancing measures for enhanced economic integration, competitiveness, and strategies for addressing bilateral and multilateral trade issues. Key outcomes of the meeting included progress … Continue reading CARICOM advances strategies to enhance regional and external trade at 60th COTED meeting
Jamaica will be leading dialogue and action under the theme ‘People, Partnerships, Prosperity: Promoting a Secure and Sustainable Future’, when the country assumes chairmanship of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) on July 1. This was revealed by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, during a briefing with the diplomatic corps at … Continue reading Jamaica’s leadership of Caricom to focus on ‘people, partnerships & prosperity’
Sen. the Hon. Claudette Joseph, Attorney General and Minister for Legal Affairs, Labour and Consumer Affairs, Grenada and Chair, COHSOD-Labour with CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett and Ambassador Wayne McCook, Assistant Secretary General, CARICOM Single Market and Trade April 11, 2025 CARICOM Ministers of Labour have agreed to a harmonised and sustained approach to matters … Continue reading Harmonised approach to Labour policies crucial to free movement within CARICOM
Senator, the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica April 3, 2025 Jamaica has signed the CARICOM Protocol to Amend the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community, including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, to allow Enhanced Cooperation among Member States and address Related issues. This Protocol on … Continue reading CARICOM Protocol to Enhance Cooperation receives another signatory
By SIR RONALD SANDERS Recently, the smaller member states of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have renewed complaints that the promised benefits and compensatory mechanisms that convinced them to join first CARIFTA in 1968, and later CARICOM in 1973, have not materialised. While the larger economies - Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados … Continue reading WORLD VIEW: Is CARICOM failing its smaller countries?
January 16, 2025 The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, launched the consultancy: Free Movement of Persons in the CARICOM Region: Undertaking Labour Market Analysis in the Region to inform the development of a comprehensive labour migration policy for the region. Designed as part of an ongoing collaboration between ILO and … Continue reading CARICOM, ILO conducting labour market analysis to shape regional migration policy
December 19, 2024 A revision of the Caribbean Community’s draft Industrial Policy is necessary given the changing global and domestic economic environments, according to Dr. Wendell Samuel, CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General(Ag), Economic Integration, Innovation and Development. Dr. Samuel, who is also the Senior Economic Advisor to the CARICOM Secretary-General, was at the time speaking at the … Continue reading Global changes warrant revision of draft Community Industry Policy, says Assistant Secretary-General
Dr. Armstrong Alexis, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM, on Thursday 24 October delivered the keynote address at the 2024 Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. which is observing its 50th anniversary under the theme ‘50 Years Strong: Celebrating our Journey, Building Resilience, Securing Tomorrow‘. The event, from 22 – 26 October, … Continue reading Keynote Address by Dr. Armstrong Alexis, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM | Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. Annual General Meeting and Conference