Your Excellencies the Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke and Lady Cooke President Thabo Mbeki President Ricardo Lagos Colleague Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Specially Invited Dignitaries Heads of International and Regional Organisations Honourable Ministers and Members of Parli...

In a year when the Caribbean Community is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Community’s Heads of Government, as well as the Trade and Finance Ministers and senior officials will culminate a series of meetings in Jamaica in June and July with the Twenty Fourth Regular meeting of the Heads o...

My presence here today as Prime Minister is the consequence of an electoral choice that is without precedent in the post-independence history of my country. It focuses my mind on the fact that we live in unprecedented times – in a world caught up with difficult and dangerous new tensions, an...

The 14th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 14-15 February 2003. It was presided over by immediate past Chairman, H.E. Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana...

Colleague Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Ministers of Government Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen: We are meeting in Trinidad and Tobago where thirty years ago, at Chaguaramas, the Treaty which gave life to our family of nations was...

Chairman, Colleague Heads of Government Secretary General Ministers of Government Honourees and other Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen. I would have wished to be welcoming you to Dominica at this time as I assume the mantle of chairmanship of the Caribbean Community and at this my fi...

Mr. Chairman, Colleague Heads of Government, Honourable Ministers, Secretary-General, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Specially Invited Guests, Delegates, Members of the Media, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the Government and People of the Republic of ...

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen Hon Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Other Heads of Government Hon. Ministers of Government Distinguished Delegates to the 14th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference Members of Parliament Your Excellencies, the Ambassadors to CARICOM and other Members...

Mr. Chairman Colleague Heads Ministers and Delegates Distinguished Honorees Your Excellencies Esteemed Guests: I wish to thank the Government and people of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for their gracious hospitality. Jamaica looks forward to reciprocating this generosity when we host t...

Caribbean Economies face significant difficulties of both a short and long-term nature. The short term problem results from declining performance in both the traditional and non-traditional sectors and is manifested in declining rates of growth in real output, stagnation in holdings of foreign reser...