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Dr Edward Green appointed UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Ban-Ki - Moon, has appointed former CARICOM Secretariat Assistant Secretary-General, Dr. Edward Greene as UN Special Envoy for HIV in the Caribbean. In this role Dr. Greene will be responsible for advancing the cause of HIV/AIDs in accordance with the UN mandates, and in collaboration with the Executive Director of UNAIDS and the regional and national institutions in the Caribbean

PANCAP URGED TO BECOME A LEADER IN HUMAN RIGHTS

 
 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been called upon to revamp the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) by establishing the Partnership as the Caribbean’s leader in promoting human rights and developing legislation to protect the rights of those persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE THIRTY-THIRD MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) 17 NOVEMBER 2011 GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Permit me first to recognize the presence of the Hon. Joseph Gilbert, Minister of the Environment, Foreign Trade and Export Development of Grenada at his first meeting of the COTED. I also wish to recognize the presence of Sir Edwin Carrington, Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM and immediate past Secretary-General of CARICOM.

REMARKS BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE MAXINE MCCLEAN, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE OF BARBADOS, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE COTED, 17 NOVEMBER, 2011

​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Let me start by officially welcoming Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to his first meeting of the COTED in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community. We are all aware of Ambassador LaRocque’s long-standing relationship with the COTED, first as the representative of Dominica and later as the Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic Integration in the CARICOM Secretariat.

PANCAP’S ROLE CRITICAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV AND AIDS

 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) must sustain the Caribbean’s response to HIV and AIDS if the Region is to meet UNAIDS’ target of zero new infections, discrimination and AIDS –related deaths by 2015.

REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE THIRTY-THIRD MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) 17 NOVEMBER 2011 GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Permit me first to recognize the presence of the Hon. Joseph Gilbert, Minister of the Environment, Foreign Trade and Export Development of Grenada at his first meeting of the COTED. I also wish to recognize the presence of Sir Edwin Carrington, Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM and immediate past Secretary-General of CARICOM.

REMARKS BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE MAXINE MCCLEAN, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE OF BARBADOS, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE COTED, 17 NOVEMBER, 2011

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Let me start by officially welcoming Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to his first meeting of the COTED in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community. We are all aware of Ambassador LaRocque’s long-standing relationship with the COTED, first as the representative of Dominica and later as the Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic Integration in the CARICOM Secretariat.

COTED DELEGATES TOLD `TIME FOR STOCK-TAKING’

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The time was ripe for the review of the performance and the method of work of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), and for strategizing on its new direction that would take into account the current global economic reality, Senator the Hon. Maxine McClean told her colleagues Thursday.

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