CARICOM LEADERS TO TAKE PART IN SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Twelve Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be participating in the Sixth Summit of the Americas on 14-15 April 2012 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Two other Member States, Belize and The Bahamas will be represented by their Deputy Prime Ministers. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will also be attending the Summit on the invitation of the host, His Excellency President Juan Manuel Santos.
The Summit will be held under the theme “Connecting the Americas: Partners for Prosperity” at the Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala Convention Centre, Cartagena. The previous Summit was held in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009.
Five themes have been selected for the discussions. These are: Disaster Risk Reduction and Management; Citizen Security and Trans-national Organized Crime; Poverty and Inequality; Integration of Physical Infrastructure in the Americas; and Information and Communication Technologies.
While in Cartagena the CARICOM leaders will be meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada, Honourable Stephen Harper on Saturday 14 and United States President Barack Obama on Sunday 15.
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