BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL TO HOST CARIBBEAN DIGNITARIES IN CELEBRATION OF CARICOM DAY
10:30 A.M.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL
209 JORALEMON STREET
BETWEEN COURT AND ADAMS STREETS
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
On Wednesday, July 29, Brooklyn Borough Hall will host the New York CARICOM Consular Corps and members of Brooklyn's Caribbean community, civic leaders, dignitaries and others in honor of CARICOM Day, a commemoration of the establishment of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). Members of the New York CARICOM Consular Corps seek to establish the celebration as an annual event.
The celebration hosted by Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham will include remarks by CARICOM Consul General and Consul General of Trinidad and Tobago Dr. Harold Robertson; Chair of the New York CARICOM Consular Corps and Consul General of Barbados Hon. Lennox Price; and the Permanent Observer of the Caribbean Community to the United Nations H.E. Ambassador Noel Sinclair, as well as the raising of the CARICOM flag, steel pan music and a reception and exhibition.
CARICOM was created on July 4, 1973, in Trinidad with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, allowing the 15 Caribbean region member nations to move labor and capital freely between one another, advance coordination of trade, agricultural, industrial and foreign policies and act as a single market economy.
Home to the renowned West Indian American Day Carnival and Parade and our nation's largest Caribbean population, Brooklyn is known as the "Caribbean Capital of the USA."