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CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque addresses Friday's meeting

CARICOM reaffirms great value of relations with Cuba

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 14, 2019 - Even as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday reaffirmed the great value it attaches to ties with Cuba, it reiterated its call for an immediate and unconditional end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba.
  • Published in CARICOM
Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parilla

CARICOM | Cuba reinforces its ties with the Caribbean

Kingston, Jamaica, 12 June 2019. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, will today participate in the Sixth Meeting of CARICOM-Cuba Foreign Ministers to be held in Guyana, following his one week tour of several sister nations of the Caribbean. The tour began on Tuesday and will last until June 18, taking him to Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Guyana and Barbados.
  • Published in CARICOM
New Colombian Ambassador to CARICOM HE Martha Pinilla presents her Letter of Credence to CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque

CARICOM | Colombia is willing to participate in CARIFESTA

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 12, 2019 - Colombia’s new Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Wednesday said her country will make every effort to participate in the Caribbean mega festival of arts: CARIFESTA XIV, scheduled for August 16-25 in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Published in CARICOM
Prof Verene Shepherd, Vice Chair CARICOM Reparations Commission, speaking at the press conference.

CARICOM | List of Countries Targeted for Reparations Expanded

KINGSTON, June 12, 2019 -  Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), Prof Verene Shepherd has revealed that the CRC was in the process of preparing a new round of letters of demand to be presented to additional countries identified as participants in the trafficking of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean.
  • Published in CARICOM
Prime Minister Harris speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. as Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, health policy correspondent on NPR’s Science Desk and the 112th president of the National Press Club, looks on (standing at right).

CARICOM Chair bemoans the withdrawal of Corresponding in the Caribbeani

WASHINGTON, United States May 27, 2019 — The chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Dr Timothy Harris, says one the biggest economic and financial challenges facing CARICOM countries "pertains to the practice by large global commercial banks to terminate their correspondent banking services or to offer these services at unconscionably high rates."
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