{"id":65451,"date":"2017-01-10T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selasite.azurewebsites.net\/caricom-2017\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T02:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T07:12:32","slug":"caricom-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/caricom-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A crucial year for the Reform Process \u2013 CARICOM SG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-asset\">\n<div class=\"thumbnails thumbnail-style thumbnail-kenburn \">\n<div class=\"img-ttl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/irwin-larocque_20170110.webp\" alt=\"Irwin -La Rocque _20170110\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/bb218c7b21d04d13970d7515891d935c\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"img-ttl\">CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers opened on 9 January 2017, at the CARICOM headquarters, Guyana, under the chairmanship of Guyana\u2019s Vice President and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Carl Greenidge. In his remarks to the Official Opening, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Amb. Irwin LaRocque told the gathering that 2017 was \u201ca crucial year for the Community\u2019s Reform Process, as it was the mid-point of the five-year (2015-2019) Strategic Plan for the Community, a foundational element of the process.<\/p>\n<p>He informed that the Operational Plan for achieving the goals of the Strategic Plan was designed and that a system to measure progress, based on the principles of Results-Based Management, was being established with financing from the Caribbean Development Bank. Amb.<\/p>\n<p>LaRocque said that the gender sensitive CARICOM Results-based Management System was a timely and necessary initiative which would bring significant changes to the way the Community works. \u201cIt will assist in fostering a results-oriented culture throughout the Community and will help us to measure the pace of the regional integration process and its impact on the lives of the people\u2026\u201d, he said The Secretary General highlighted a number of issues that the Community was still grappling with. These included low growth, the challenges of correspondent banking, climate change, crime and security and restrictions on access to concessional development financing.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. LaRocque called for the strengthening and deepening of the Community\u2019s integration process, noting that it was the \u201cbest option to ensure that the Community withstand the challenges before it.\u201d \u201cIt is our path to sustainable development and the continued improvement of the lives of the people of our Community\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Greenidge will guide the two-day meeting of the Council, which comprises ministers responsible for CARICOM Affairs in Member States and is the second highest Organ of the Community. The Council has primary responsibility for strategic planning and coordination of the Community, in accordance with the policy directions established by the Conference of Heads of Government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial year for the Reform Process \u2013 CARICOM SG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boletines-regionales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}