2018 in photos

By Michelle Nurse Last updated Jan 16, 2019

2019 is upon us and we take this opportunity to extend wishes for a happy new year. On the cusp of a new year, we also reflect on 2018 in photographs.

Renewed emphasis and advances were made on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). From left, Former Jamaica PM, Mr. Bruce Golding, CARICOM SG, Amb. Irwin LaRocque and PM of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. the Hon Ralph Gonsalves at the CSME Consultation held in Georgetown, Guyana In June, 2018

Participants at the CSME Consultation held in Georgetown, Guyana

Ninth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CSME was held in Barbados, September 2018, under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Mia Mottley. (centre) She is flanked by CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque (l) and CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, Mr. Joseph Cox

From left, PM Mia Mottley of Barbados, lead Head of Government with responsibility for the CSME; Amb. Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General, PM Dr. Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago and host of the Special Summit of CARICOM Heads of Government on the CSME in December, and PM Dr. Keith Mitchell of Grenada

President of Haiti, His Excellency Jovenel Moise and Prime Minister of Barbados, the Hon. Mia Mottley during PM Mottley’s visit to Port-au-Prince to discuss Haiti’s participation in the CSME, Oct 2018

Technology moves: CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan and other members of staff paid a site visit to the Guyana National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) SMARTROOM in January

A colourful costume at the launch of CARIFESTA XIV in October CARIFESTA will be held in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2019 (Photo by Jeff Mayers)

Throwback: Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development at the CARICOM Secretariat and Dr. Hilary Brown, Progamme Manager, Culture and Community Development at the CARICOM Secretariat consult briefly on his speech before the launch of CARIFESTA (Photo: Jeff Mayers

Cuban President His Excellency Miguel Díaz Canel (front row, 3rd left) and CARICOM Heads of Government met in July

CARICOM Chairman, Prime Minister Holness(second from right) crosses finish line at the CARICOM Annual 10K race in Jamaica in July

Confronting NCDs: CARICOM Breakfast Meeting on Non-Communicable-Diseases (NCD) (l-r) Canada’s Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor; Jamaica’s Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton; Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley; Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness; St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris; St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves; Sir George Alleyne, OCC in New York in September

Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque adding his support to the victims of Terrorism after meeting with Mr Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, Office of Counter Terrorism, United Nations in September

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque greets World Customs Organisations Secretary-General, His Excellency Kunio Mikuriya at the CARICOM Secretariat in March

Sir Dennis Byron, former President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) (centre) poses with Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, the Hon. Gaston Browne and other members of the judiciary during a special sitting of the CCJ in Antigua and Barbuda in May

Justice Adrian Suanders, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice — President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders

CARICOM Secretary-General Amb. Irwin LaRocque meets His Excellency WANG Yi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China – September 2018 at the CARICOM Secretariat. At right is CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin Granderson

Air Transport: CARICOM Secretary-General, Amb. Irwin LaRocque addresses the opening ceremony of the ICAO Conference in Georgetown, Guyana, in November

Barbados Minister of Energy and Water Resources, the Hon Wilfred Abrahams presents the first CARICOM Energy Personality award to Ms. Hannah Olmberg-Soesman in June.

Secretary-General making an intervention at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) High-Level Round Table “SIDS Lighthouses Initiative 2.0” in September in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, New York

Charting the way forward in energy: Participants at the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Forum (CSEF) IV in Belize in November

Meeting of CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors at the CARICOM Secretariat in December: CARICOM SG, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque shares a light moment with Deputy Secretary-General (left) of the CARICOM Secretariat and part of the Jamaica delegation. Standing to SG LaRocque’s right is Ambassador Alison Stone-Roofe, Under-Secretary, Bilateral, Hemispheric and Regional Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFATF); while seated is Mrs. Marsha Coore-Lobban, Director, Caribbean and Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFATF), Jamaica.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to CARICOM, His Excellency Clarence Henry and Chef de Cabinet, Office of the Secretary-General, Ms. Charmaine Atkinson-Jordan admire memorabilia on display as the Community observed its 45th anniversary

CARICOM representatives at COP24 in Katowice, Poland, in December. From left, Programme Manager for Sustainable Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Ms. Amrikha Singh, Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Dr. Didacus Jules, and CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, Dr. Douglas Slater

Residents fled to their rooftops to escape flood waters in Trinidad and Tobago in October (Photo via CMC)

Focus on agriculture: Barbados PM Mia Mottley, St. Kitts and Nevis PM Dr Timothy Harris, CARICOM SG Amb. Irwin LaRocque and other officials at the opening of Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2018

CARICOM Secretary-General, Amb. Irwin LaRocque interacts with schoolchildren at the CARICOM booth at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture held in Barbados in October

A candid shot with CARICOM Programme Manager, Culture and Community Development Dr. Hilary Brown (left) with some of the youth at the Caribbean Forum on Youth Population and Development in Georgetown in July

Participants at the Caribbean Forum on Youth Population and Development held at the Georgetown Marriott, Guyana in July

Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Youth representatives in July

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