Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in Jamaica from tomorrow to review regional foreign policy and community governance matters. The two-day Meeting will be chaired by Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith.
This 26th Meeting of the CARICOM Council Foreign and Community Relations will tackle a packed agenda including relations with India, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba, and bilateral relations engagements CARICOM and the USA, Africa, Dominica Republic, and the Central America Integration System (SICA).
The Ministers will also discuss the situation in Haiti, and matters pertaining to the United Nations (UN) including UN Security Council Reform and CARICOM’s engagement in the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent.
There are several upcoming High-Level Meetings on the international agenda in which CARICOM will be involved such as the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development and the SDGs Summit. The Foreign Ministers will look at those as well as matters on the hemispheric agenda in the context of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Latin American and Caribbean States, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
The COFCOR will engage with the State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the Secretariat of State from Spain.
Following the COFCOR meeting, Foreign Ministers will join their counterpart from the United Kingdom (UK) for the 11th UK-Caribbean Forum.
Senator Johnson Smith said Jamaica will co-chair the meeting she described as the “foremost mechanism for political consultation between the United Kingdom and the Members States of CARIFORUM.”
Cuba traditionally participates in the Forum in an observer capacity, the Senator noted.
She said the Meeting will take stock of the progress in the implementation of the Tenth UK-Caribbean Forum Action Plan. It will also advance discussions on deeper cooperation in areas including trade and investment, financing for development, climate change and environment, immigration and Windrush, food security, health, education, and the situation in Haiti.
A big long and stupid comment.For your information HAITI is not a member of RSS.Jacka glory,the members of RSS are Barbados,Antigua and Barbuda,Dominica,St.Lucia,Grenada and St.Vencent and the Grenadines,Jacka.CARICOM does not have a security service like RSS.That BS you are always braying about,free and fair elections.The election observers on numerous occasions told the world,elections held in Dominica were free and fair and reflected the will of the people.Yet a handful of overeducated baboons think otherwise.That is why UWP is no longer the parliamentary opposition,too many ignorant and idiotic supporters.
@Lin clown
Where did you see or read what you are saying? Do yourself a favour, and attend nightschool! Shameless!!
CARICOM is just as good as its ‘leaders’. On close examination of each of these ‘leaders’ does this organisation inspire confidence of achieving great accomplishments in you?
These guys are drunk with power. Their only objective is to retain power at all cost. The desperate plight and deplorable conditions of the people are of no concern to these sadists.
In recent times, regional governments have met in Guyana on agriculture, Trinidad on crime, the status quo remains the same. Now, this meeting of ministers of Foreign Affairs in Jamaica will be remembered only for the designer suits, luxury transport, pricey food and premium wine. That’s it.
CARICOM is more of a boys club than anything else. Isn’t HAITI a member of CARICOM? Yes it is…..Through its Regional Security System, (RSS), we had foreign soldiers on our (Dominica’s), soil during the 2019 elections, even shooting people who were asking for free and fair election….Yet HAITI is in absolute chaos and disorder, and the same CARICOM is turning a blind eye!! The people of the region must demand that this grouping better serve its people, because the ordinary man is forgotten by this grouping, while greedy leaders travel to eat, serve their pockets, wine and entertain themselves in Five Star Hotels while the ordinary Caribbean man begs for a dollar.
This genre of modern day Caribbean (CARICOM) leaders, represent the most disgraceful, corrupt, greedy and wicked we have had in the region! Shame on them!!!