Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Regrettably, the standing of Caricom, both regionally and internationally, is now at one of its lowest points when the people of the region need it to be at its strongest.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to benefit from an injection of Euro 165 million (US$244 million) in funding from the European Commission as part of its ongoing support for regional integration.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
LET me declare my interest: I've long supported Caricom and West Indies cricket. But anyone can see the writing on the wall unless they're wilfully blind. First, Caricom. Caricom has exhausted itself. Caribbean regionalism is not so much in retreat as it is irrelevant. Caricom leaders have absolutely no interest in regional integration other than what petty benefits each can gouge out of it. Most of...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Jamaican government has still not received the green light for the extension of a waiver of the mandatory 15 per tax on cement imported from outside Caricom's 15-member trade bloc, two weeks after the Council for Trade and Economic Development...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Key decision makers and stakeholders from the public and private sectors of CARIFORUM countries - the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic - are meeting in Barbados to discuss ways of dealing with the worldwide economic recession.
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has said no to Guyana's request for more time to comply with an order it handed down in August to implement the Common External Tariff (CET) on cement imported from outside CARICOM.
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
— Highlights importance of statistics among members states In order to highlight statistics and its crucial role across a wide spectrum of activities, Statistics Day is being observed today by Guyana and the Caribeban Community as a whole. According to Caricom’s Assistant Secretary General, Lolita Applewhaite, statistics can influence daily decision-making faced by individuals, businesses,...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Recently there has been some outcry about the treatment of Chinese workers here when what we should be crying about is why the Chinese are here in the first place. Our esteemed Prime Minister keeps telling us we don't want to work and we believe him. We are told that we have full employment. Anyone with a logical mind would know that both arguments are irrational and weak. Trinbagonians are not lazy....
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it's spearheading the development of a project that is expected to reduce the high incidence of violence against women in the Caribbean.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
THE tongue-lashing Caricom heads of government got from the leaders of the region's two major social sector umbrella organisations last week was more than well deserved. Caricom leaders have on several occasions in the past admitted their failure to implement decisions taken at the annual Heads of Government Conference. Since the decision at the Grand Anse summit in Grenada which established the West...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
B.C. Pires posts notes supposedly passed between Caricom leaders during the Caricom Single Market & Economy meeting: “I certify theses notes as authentic: I made them up myself.”
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Barbados' Prime Minister says the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is working, but it's not doing so perfectly and is not above suspicion.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
"We are in a situation in the Caribbean somewhat like the 1980s for bigger countries like Jamaica and Guyana where they found themselves losing their market share, losing their economic force and having to adjust," he said. "They were preoccupied with the internal things and what happened at that time was that there was a slowing down of the Caricom process and it could happen again....
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Canadian High Commis-sion says Caricom nationals can now earn Canadian credentials through the Canada-Caricom Virtual University Scholarship Programme (CCVUSP). In a press release the High ...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The Government of Finland has signaled its intention to contribute Euro 300,000 (US$436,000) to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Development Fund (CDF).
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