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CARICOM TRADE MINISTERS AND WTO HEAD TO MEET IN GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Caribbean Trade Ministers will meet with the Mexican Foreign Minister and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday 28 November, 2003. H.E Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was the Chairman of the Fifth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference, which was held in Cancun in early September.

The meeting is scheduled to take place from 3.00 p.m. at the Conference Room of the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Bank of Guyana Building.

REMARKS BY RENEE WEST MENDOZA – CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER CARIBBEAN COALITION OF NATIONAL AIDS PROGRAMME COORDINATORS (CCNAPC)ON BEHALF OF DR. YITADES GEBRE, CHAIRMAN, CCNAPC, AT THE THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE PAN-CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP ON HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), 12-13 NOVEMBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

SALUTATIONS

I bring you greetings on behalf of my Chairman, Dr Yitades Gebre who could not be here today at this important meeting and sends his regrets.

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE PAN CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST HIV/AIDS, 12-13 NOVEMBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

The Third Annual General Meeting of the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) was held in Georgetown, Guyana on 12-13 November 2003, under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Health, Republic of Guyana, assisted by Deputy Chairperson, H.E. Ms. Dolores Balderamas Garcia, Ambassador/Chairperson National AIDS Commission, Belize.

OPENING CEREMONY

The Opening Ceremony was chaired by Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat.

TELEVISED REMARKS BY DR. PETER PIOT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNAIDS, UN UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE PAN CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), 12-13 NOVEMBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Dear Participants of the Third Annual PANCAP Meeting,

First of all, I wish to express my best wishes and solidarity with you in your continuing leadership in the response to AIDS. I am sorry not to be able to be with you in person.

MESSAGE FROM DR. THE HON. DENZIL DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS AND CHAIRMAN OF PANCAP, ON THE OCCASION OF THE THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE PAN-CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), 12-13 NOVEMBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

I send you all very fond greetings and best wishes on the occasion of the 3rd Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS. PANCAP as it is affectionately known, is a very special mechanism endorsed by the Heads of Government of CARICOM as a pillar of the Nassau Declaration which emphasised that the “health of the region is the wealth of the Region".

REMARKS OF THE OUTGOING CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), DR. WALTER SANDRIMAN, MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, SURINAME,  AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NINTH MEETING OF THE COHSOD, 8 OCTOBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

(Presented by Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General,
Human and Social Development, CARICOM Secretariat)

OPENING REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY- GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARICOM SECRETARIAT, AT THE NINTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 8 OCTOBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

It is my pleasure to welcome you all on behalf of the Directorate of Human and Social Development. Our Directorate has worked assiduously over the past year to support the flagship activity of the Community, which is the accelerated implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. Many of the activities in which we have been engaged are being discussed at this meeting.

30TH ANNIVERSARY OF CARICOM : A TIME OF HONOURS FOR ITS SECRETARY-GENERAL

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington was among 35 members of staff of the CARICOM Secretariat who received awards at a ceremony on 23 July 2003 at Le Meridien Pegasus in Georgetown, Guyana.

It was an extraordinary occasion for the Secretary-General who received two other awards apart from one for 10 years of service. The first was a Special Award for being the “longest serving Secretary-General” having begun his tenure in 1992. Roderick Rainford, his immediate predecessor had served for nine years and was the previous longest serving Secretary-General.

SPEECH BY H.E ELISABETH HARPER ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS AS AMBASSADOR OF GUYANA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 24 JULY 2003

Your Excellency Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community
Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Colleague Members of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media

I feel deeply honoured today to present to you, Secretary-General, the letters which accredit me as Guyana's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community.

OPENING REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE TWELFTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 31 MAY 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Honourable Ministers
Other Heads of Delegation
Distinguished Delegates
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

It is my pleasure this morning, as Secretary-General, to welcome you to the Twelfth Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, the second highest decision-making body in the Caribbean Community.

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