2017 In Photos

By Michelle Nurse Last updated Jan 4, 2018

As 2017 ends and we usher in 2018, we take a look back at a challenging year, but one in which CARICOM showed its formidable strength and resilience.

Here are some highlights:

President of Haiti, His Excellency Jovenel Moise welcomes SG LaRocque to Haiti in December

President of Haiti, His Excellency Jovenel Moise at the CARICOM Energy Month Exhibition in Port au Prince in October

Participants in the Energy Month Kilo Walk in November in Georgetown, Guyana

CARICOM Secretary-General, Amb. Irwin LaRocque and Cuban Ambassador to CARICOM, His Excellency, Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante share a warm handshake after signing the Agreement in November

Heads of Government at the CARICOM-Mexico Summit in October

PM of Antigua and Barbuda, the Hon Gaston Browne, CARICOM Chairman, Dr. the Hon Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada and others tour devastated Barbuda in September

Secretary-General António Guterres walks through Codrington town in Barbuda to see firsthand the devastation left behind by Hurricane Irma. (Photo by Rick Bajornas via UN)

Stripped trees tell the story the morning after the hurricane hit Dominica

Devastation in Dominica

CARICOM Secretary-General offers comfort while on a visit to Dominica following the hurricane

Hurricane Irma damage in the British Virgin Islands

In the wake of the storm

Clearing debris in St. Kitts and Nevis

What was left of a gas station in the Turks and Caicos Islands after Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma turned this hillside in Anguilla brown

Wood and debris on Ragged Island, The Bahamas, after Hurricane Irma hit

Upturned boats on Ragged Island, The Bahamas

BVI Premier, the Hon Dr. Orlando Smith and PM of Dominica, the Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit greet each other at the Pledging Conference in New York in Nov. 2017

CARICOM SG Amb. Irwin LaRocque, UNDP Administrator Achim Stenier and UNDPDirector for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ms. Jessica Faeita at the Pledging Conference in Nov.

Commonwealth SG Baroness Patricia Scotland; CARICOM Chair, PM Dr. Keith Mitchell of Grenada; PM Allen Chastanet of Saint Lucia, SG Amb. Irwin LaRocque in New York, Nov. at the Pledging Conference

Representatives of Regional Institutions, CARDI, CCCCC, CRFM at the Pledging Conference in New York in Nov.

The formidable strength and resilience of the Caribbean people will be in full cry on the long and difficult road to recovery

The Nature Isle becoming green again in November

Citizens doing their part to build back better

Picking up the pieces in Dominica

An elaborate costume displayed by the Haiti delegation during the Parade of Nations at CARIFESTA XIII in August

FLASHBACK: Fashion was a big hit at CARIFESTA XIII

Former President of Haiti, Michel Martelly performs at CARIFESTA in August

The jubilant crowd during the performance at the Grand Market in August

Body painting par excellence at CARIFESTA XIII in August

A section of the Barbadian delegation at CARIFESTA XIII in August

CARICOM SG welcomes then CARICOM Chairman, Pres. David Granger of Guyana (l) to the CARICOM Secretariat for a Meeting of the Bureau of Heads of Government in May

A group photo with the Deputy Secretary-General and CARICOM Youth Ambassadors during their Orientation and Capacity-Building Workshop at the CARICOM Secretariat in June

CXC launched a new app in July

Caribbean Regional Launch of Lancet Series was held at the CARICOM Secretariat

The Community observed its 44th anniversary in 2017

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque congratulates recipient of the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, Ms. Shirley Pryce

Heads of Government pause for a group photo after their summit in Grenada in July (Photo via JIS)

Secretary-General LaRocque (left) has a traditional Japanese dinner during his visit to Japan in July

IN STEP: Secretaries-General of CARICOM (R) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the UN, H.E. António Guterres (L) at the Ninth CARICOM-UN Meeting in July

A gift for the Secretary-General from FIFA head, Mr.Giovanni Infantino who visited the Secretariat in April

PM Gonsalves at Guyana’s Bourda Market in February (Photos via GINA)

CARICOM Heads of Government and Heads of Delegation after their meeting in Georgetown, Guyana, in February

His Excellency David Granger, President of Guyana, and Chair of CARICOM, extends a warm welcome to newest member of the Conference, President of Haiti, His Excellency Jovenel Moise

Exchanges ahead of the COP Ministerial session (from left) Dr. Gale Rigobert, Saint Lucia’s Minister of Sustainable Dev., Dr. Kenrick Leslie, Exec. Dir. CCCCC; PM Allen Chastanet of Saint Lucia, Mr. Crispin D’auvergne Sust. Dev. Officer, Saint Lucia; CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque

Participants at the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas in January

Saint Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet (second from left) at the funeral of Sir Derek Walcott who died in March

President Rene Preval’s coffin being wheeled away after the funeral service in Port-au-Prince. He died in March (Photo via Miami Herald)

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