The sixth National Consultation of the Region's Civil Society will get underway tomorrow in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines capital, bring together a cross section of the local population to elaborate a people's vision of the Caribbean Community. The Forum is expected to attract private and...

The Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) was held at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown Guyana, 3-5 October 2001 under the distinguished Chairmanship of the Hon Girlyn Miguel, Minister of Social Development, Cooperatives, Family, Gender and Ecclesiastical Aff...

It is a special pleasure for me, as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to welcome you to the Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD). This Council is one of the critical organs of the Community. In focusing as it does on vital areas such as education, health...

I am pleased to lead my country's delegation to this Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and to bring greetings to you in our capacity as its out going Chair. At our national COHSOD this year, the social sector Ministers and Technical Advisors had an opportunity to...

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington announced in Georgetown today that The Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, Chairman of CARICOM, will host an Emergency Session of the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas on 11-12 October, to discuss the impact on the Region of ...

A cross-section of interest groups in Trinidad and Tobago, Member State of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will be afforded the opportunity to contribute to the regional strategy for taking the integration movement forward at a national consultation slated for tomorrow in the Trinidadian capital,...

The Caribbean Community Secretariat has been informed about the death on 11 September 2001 in Belize of Judge Edward A. Laing, Member of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea and former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations, the Organisation of American State...

The Second Work Programme of the European Commission/Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-sponsored HIV/AIDS/STI initiative in the Caribbean was signed on 21 August 2001 at the CARICOM Secretariat. The Work Programme and Cost Estimates for 1 July to 31 December 2001 involve activities...

His Excellency Jean Bertrand Aristide, President of the Republic of Haiti and Mrs. Aristide, The Honorable Jean Marie Cherestal, Prime Minister, The Honorable Yvon Neptune, President of the Senate, The Honorable Pierre Paul Cottin, President of the Chamber of Deputies, His Excellency Cesar Gaviria, ...

The Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 3-6 July, 2001. Heads of Government in attendance were: the Hon. Lester B. Bird, Prime Minister, Antigua and Barbuda; the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minist...