GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—The Secretary Normal of the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) says in her message to mark the tip of the yr that all through 2024, the regional physique remained targeted on supporting efforts to deepen Regional Integration and enhance the welfare of the Area’s residents.
Based on Barnett, the Convention of Heads of Authorities’s decisive management superior most of the Area’s key priorities.
“Meals and Vitamin Safety was boosted by the 25 by 2025 initiative; there have been efforts to enhance Air and Maritime Transportation within the Area and advance implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economic system (CSME), and initiatives to stem the worrying subject of Crime and Violence.”
“We continued to reap the benefits of regional and worldwide fora alternatives to advocate for decisive local weather motion by the worldwide Neighborhood to maintain temperatures to 1.5 levels above pre-industrial ranges. We additionally known as for pressing consideration to honor commitments to supply local weather financing. The Bridgetown Initiative and implementation of the multilaterally agreed Multidimensional Vulnerability Index stays important to making sure that CARICOM Small Island and Low-lying Coastal Growing States (SIDS) obtain the sources wanted to extend and maintain resilience.”
The secretary-general mentioned CARICOM leaders and the Eminent Individuals Group (EPG) additionally expended nice effort all year long in the direction of resuming purposeful governance and safety in Haiti by making certain Haitian-led and Haitian-owned options to the continuing crises. Regrettably, the rising insecurity attributable to gang violence stays a severe menace to the aspirations and hopes of the individuals of Haiti, as many hundreds of individuals proceed to be displaced and are victims of violence and meals insecurity.
“In July, the record-breaking Hurricane Beryl severely impacted agriculture, fisheries, communications, and transportation in a number of international locations of the Area. Nonetheless, within the true spirit of Neighborhood, our Member States and Regional Establishments rallied to help one another.”
The regional physique additionally signed the CARICOM-African Union Memorandum of Understanding within the latter half of the yr to advertise strengthening financial, cultural, political, and fraternal relationships between CARICOM and Africa.
The elevated commerce, funding, and tourism alternatives between CARICOM and Africa may also bolster this.
“We acknowledge the sturdy participation of our Member States, Worldwide Improvement Companions, the Personal Sector, Labour organizations, the Diaspora, and Civil Society in initiatives to strengthen the pillars of our integration motion. On this regard, for his or her sterling contribution to the Area, two Neighborhood stalwarts, Sir Clive Lloyd and the Honourable Roderick Rainford, had been awarded the Order of the Caribbean Neighborhood, the Area’s highest honor, on the forty seventh Common Assembly of the Convention of Heads of Authorities.”
Barnett mentioned that because the Area seeks to consolidate integration within the yr forward, CARICOM seems to be ahead to continued collaboration with stakeholders and companions, together with the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors and CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, and the steerage of the Bureau of the Convention, which is able to comprise Barbados, Grenada, and Jamaica efficient 1 January 2025.
“My honest because of all of the employees of the Secretariat at our Georgetown Headquarters and our places of work in Barbados and Jamaica for his or her dependable dedication to the work of the Neighborhood. I want all peace, success, prosperity in 2025, and security throughout the Season’s festivities.”
