GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Dr.  Carla Barnett has praised the contributions of young people in the socio-economic development of the region.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr. Didacus Jules, says the French Caribbean territories are not on the margins of the regional integration story, but are active players and leaders.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - A senior official at the Trinidad-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS) says intelligence networks available to regional governments and their agencies are underutilised.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley says Barbados will “open our doors with order and with pride” as Barbados joins three other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in fully implementing free movement of their nationals among themselves from today.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says violence by armed groups continues to fuel displacements in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country of Haiti.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Deputy Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr. Armstrong Alexis, says he does not believe that the objectives of the regional integration movement are dead, but acknowledged that “we have to face the reality “ of the changing regional and global environment.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – More than 47 disaster management professionals from across the Caribbean and beyond have joined forces to launch the region’s first Shelter Technical Working Group, as the Atlantic Hurricane Season reaches its peak.

PORT OF SPAIN – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad Bissessar, says while there has been progress across Latin America and the Caribbean(LAC) with regards to human development, “the pattern is clear, we have made progress, but it remains fragile”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat says that four member countries – Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines – are on track to implement the free movement among themselves from October 1, this year.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Heads of governments within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)  with a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme, say they have signed an agreement to further strengthen the integrity, transparency, and sustainability of the programme.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Thursday said that last week’s deadly attack in the commune of Cabaret, in the West Department, has forced thousands of people to flee their home in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  country.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has allocated nine million US dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) amid worsening violence and displacement in Haiti.