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RE-ENERGISING AGRICULTURE AND DECREASING DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN FOOD AID KEY TO HAITI’S RECOVERY - P.J. PATTERSON

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “The Haiti of the future must be completely different and significantly different from the Haiti of the recent past,” the Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson said at the International Donors Conference on Haiti, Wednesday, 31 March 2010.
The Conference was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, to mobilise support for the development needs of Haiti towards its sustained reconstruction and recovery.

A STRONG CARICOM NEEDS A STRONG HAITI - P.J. PATTERSON

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) had a vital interest in the welfare and development of Haiti and saw its rebuilding as a priority issue for all CARICOM Member States, the Most Hon. Percival J. Patterson said Wednesday.
“A strong Caribbean Community needs a strong Haiti,” the former Jamaica Prime Minister and current Special Representative of the Heads of Government of CARICOM to Haiti pointed out in an address to the International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

CARICOM ON INTERIM HAITI RECONSTRUCTION COMMISSION

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community is among organizations represented on the Board of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission that will oversee the money pledged for Haiti’s reconstruction.
The IHRC, which has an 18-month mandate, will be co-chaired by the Hon Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti and Mr. Bill Clinton, former US President and current United Nations envoy to Haiti.

The private sector, civil society and major donors will also be on the Board.

REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON SECRETARY GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMMISSIONING OF THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR FACILITY, 31 MARCH 2010, BRASSO VENADO, TABAQUITE, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Honourable Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Minister of Public Utilities of Trinidad and Tobago
Ms Kathrin Renner, Acting Chargé d’Affaires, European Union Delegation, Trinidad and Tobago
Mr. Tyrone Sutherland, Coordinating Director, Caribbean Meteorological Organisation
Madam Permanent Secretary and Deputy Permanent Secretary
Mr. Emmanuel Moolchan, Director, Meteorological Services Division, Ministry of Public Utilities
Other Senior Officials
Distinguished Guests

CARICOM REPRESENTED AT HAITI DONORS CONFERENCE AT UN

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson, former Prime Minister of Jamaica and Special Representative of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to Haiti, and Ambassador Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary-General Foreign and Community Relations, CARICOM Secretariat, will represent the Community at an International Donors Conference on Haiti on Wednesday 31 March 2010.

ADDRESS BY DR. JOY ST. JOHN, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, BARBADOS, ON THE OCCASION OF THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE FOURTEENTH MEETING OF THE REGIONAL COORDINATING MECHANISM OF PANCAP, 25-26 MARCH 2010, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS

On behalf of the Government of Barbados I would like to warmly welcome all of you to our shores on the occasion the 14th Ordinary Meeting of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism of the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP).

Let me begin by reaffirming the unequivocal commitment of the Government of Barbados to the ideals of PANCAP and to the Pan- Caribbean approach to the fight against HIV.

OPENING REMARKS DELIVERED BY MR GARFIELD BARNWELL, DIRECTOR, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CARICOM SECRETARIAT, AT THE FIRST TRAINING INTERVENTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG STRATEGIES AND PLANS, 23–26 MARCH 2010, KINGSTOWN, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

 
The Honourable Dr Douglas Slater, Minister of Health and the Environment
Distinguished representatives at the Head table and in the audience
The Media and delegations from our Member States

It is my pleasure to bring greetings on behalf of Mr. Edwin Carrington, the Secretary- General of the Caribbean Community. It is also a pleasure for me to be present at this very important workshop and to give brief remarks.

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