{"id":10467,"date":"2011-07-22T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2011-07-22T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T13:31:03","slug":"new-secretary-general-at-caricom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/new-secretary-general-at-caricom","title":{"rendered":"New Secretary General At CARICOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN, Guyana &#8212; Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has been selected to serve as the seventh secretary-general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by the heads of government.<\/p>\n<p>LaRocque, 56, a national of Dominica, replaces Sir Edwin Carrington of Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>He is the current assistant secretary-general for trade and economic integration at the CARICOM Secretariat, having served in that post since September 2005.<\/p>\n<p>LaRocque was educated at Queen\u2019s College, and the New School for Social Research, both in New York, and New York University, majoring in political philosophy, political economics and economics respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Irwin LaRocque from Dominica has been selected to serve as the seventh secretary-general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by the heads of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,29,40,101],"class_list":["post-10467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}