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Grenada’s Government Names New Ambassador to Caribbean Community

Above: CARICOM headquarters in Georgetown By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada’s William Joseph has been accredited as the new Grenadian Ambassador to CARICOM. CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque accepted Josephs’s letters of credence in a ceremony in Georgetown last week. […]

CARIFORUM and EU Sign $110M in Agreements; Allocations for Belize, Haiti

Above: EU Representative Robert Kopechy and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque sign the agreements (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) and the European Union signed three financial agreements aimed at […]

Guyana’s Ramotar: CARICOM’s Problems Are Not Insurmountable

Above: Guyana President Donald Ramotar By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM is not in any state of crisis, despite reports to the contrary, according to Guyanese President Donald Ramotar. While problems exist for CARICOM, they are not insurmountable, he said. […]

Singapore Signals Intent to Enhance Relations With Caribbean Community

Above: Singapore Ambassador to CARICOM Kemal Siddique and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Following a wave of interest from Asian countries in the Caribbean region, Singapore is signaling its intent to deepen relations with […]

Op-Ed: Haiti: Impunity or Justice?

By Irwin P Stotzky Op-Ed Contributor Two years and two months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti killing approximately 350,000 people, leaving several million homeless and destroying thousands of buildings, including most of the landmark buildings in Port-Au- Prince, Haiti […]

CARICOM’s LaRocque: Caribbean Integration a “Work in Progress”

Above: CARICOM Secretary Genreal Irwin LaRocque (UN Photo/JC McIlwaine) By the Caribbean Journal staff Emphasizing the Caribbean Single Market and Economy is “relevant” but still a “work in progress,” according to CARICOM Secretary General Irwin Larocque. But the private sector […]

St Lucia, St Kitts Prime Ministers Heading to Haiti for Martelly Meeting

Above: St Lucia PM Kenny Anthony By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Chairman and Suriname President Desi Bouterse will lead members of the Bureau of Heads of Government on a two-day mission to Haiti beginning on Monday. Joining him will […]

CARICOM to Set Up Regional Task Force on Sports Tourism

Above: Grenadian World Champion sprinter Kirani James By the Caribbean Journal staff The CARICOM Council on Human and Social Development has agreed to establish a regional task force on sports tourism, following the group’s meeting in Guyana last week. The […]

LaRocque Meets New EU Ambassador

Above: Ambassador Robert Kopecky and Secretary General Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque welcomed the European Union’s new Ambassador to CARICOM, Robert Kopecky, in Georgetown yesterday. The European Union is “one of […]

Suriname President Desi Bouterse Takes Over as CARICOM Chairman

Above: Suriname President Desi Bouterse (UN Photo/Marco Castro) By the Caribbean Journal staff Suriname President Desi Bouterse has taken over as CARICOM Chairman, following the completed term of St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas as chairman. “By […]

The Caribbean Year in Review

For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year’s end, five countries, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Haiti and the British Virgin Islands, will have chosen new leadership, with Jamaicans headed to the polls on Thursday. It […]

Bouterse, LaRocque Meet in Suriname

Above: Suriname President Desi Bouterse (UN Photo/Marco Castro) By the Caribbean Journal staff Suriname President and Incoming CARICOM Chairman Desi Bouterse met with Secretary General Irwin LaRocque in Surianme today as part of the latter’s two-day visit in the country. […]

CARICOM, US Ambassador Meet

By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque and US Ambassador to CARICOM Brent Hardt met yesterday in Georgetown for a series of talks on issues including trade, security and climate change. “The United States greatly values the […]

CARICOM’s LaRocque: Global Environment “Not Waiting on Us”

By the Caribbean Journal staff There is optimism on the regional integration movement within the Caribbean, but it may be time to prioritise the agenda, CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said in a speech to the 33rd Meeting of […]

CARICOM’s LaRocque: Caribbean Youth Must Help Integration Movement

Above: CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque touring the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in Barbados on Tuesday (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque called on the Caribbean’s youth to help move the integration effort […]

CARICOM’s LaRocque: Private Sector a Critical Partner for Integration

Above: CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff The private sector is a critical partner in building the Caribbean Community, said CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque in a meeting in Bridgetown yesterday. LaRocque met with representatives of […]

Stuart: Identify Challenges to Integration

Above: Barbados PM Freundel Stuart and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart urged CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque to identify the existing paramount challenges facing regional integration of the Caribbean in a […]

CARICOM’s LaRocque, in Dominica, Calls for Action on Food Security

Above: SG Irwin LaRocque (UN Photo/JC McIlwaine) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean is at an opportune moment to demonstrate that it is serious about achieving food and nutrition security, CARICOM Secretary General and Dominican native Irwin LaRocque said […]

Caribbean Talks Agriculture in Dominica

Above: CARICOM SG and Dominican native Irwin LaRocque in Roseau for talks (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff High-level talks have begun in Dominica at the Climate Change and Science Technology Workshop during the 10th Caribbean Week of Agriculture […]

CARICOM Targets Youth Violence

Above: SG Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Eradicating youth violence is one of the Caribbean’s greatest challenges, according to Myrna Bernard, office in charge of the Human and Social Directorate of CARICOM. Bernard said CARICOM’s Social […]

CARICOM, Canada Meet

Above: Ambassador David Devine and CARICOM’s Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM and Canada solidified diplomatic ties today, meeting with the new Canadian Ambassador to CARICOM, David Devine. Devine, who is also the Canadian High Commissioner […]

China, CARICOM Meet in Guyana

Above: Ambassador Yu Wenzhe and Ambassador Colin Granderson (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin Larocque met yesterday with Chinese Ambassador Yu Wenzhe, in a courtesy call at CARICOM headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana. LaRocque was joined […]

CARICOM, Chile Talk in Georgetown

Above: Patricio Pradel and Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Patricio Pradel, representative of Chile to CARICOM, paid a courtesy visit to CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque today at CARICOM headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana today. CARICOM and […]

LaRocque, Ban Meet in New York

Above: CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque and UN SG Ban Ki-moon (UN Photo: JC McIlwaine) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this weekend on the eve of the General Assembly […]

LaRocque: Food Key to Development

By the Caribbean Journal staff Soaring food prices are a reminder of the level of attention which the Caribbean needs to pay to food security and production, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque told CARICOM View this month. Nutrition was especially […]

Martelly Taps Former Clinton Aide for PM

Garry Conille, a former aide to former US President Bill Clinton, has been tapped as the next appointment for Haiti’s as-yet-unfilled prime minister position, according to Chamber of Deputies President Saurel Jacinthe. Conille was the former chief of staff for […]

After 100 Days, a Struggle for Martelly

As University of Miami School of Law Professor and former Aristide advisor Irwin Stotzky wrote in the Caribbean Journal today, the first 100 days of Michel Martelly’s presidency have been a struggle, with Haitian lawmakers twice rejecting choices by Martelly […]

CARICOM Meets Central America’s SICA

Above: From left, SICA Secretary General Juan Daniel Aleman Gurdian, CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque and CARICOM Assistant SG Colin Granderson in San Salvador (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM and the leaders from the Central American Integration System […]

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