(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The second phase of a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) project to expose tertiary-level education students to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) started on Monday 10 August 2009 with a pre-mission briefing in Saint Lucia. Similar sessions for the second phase of the Students' project will be held in eight other CARICOM Member states.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In response to enquiries following yesterday’s Press Release, (WICB-WIPA Mediation Enters Second Stage), Sir Shridath Ramphal today gave the following clarification:
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The West Indies Cricket Board – West Indies Players Association (WICB-WIPA) Mediation Agreement reached in Georgetown, Guyana on 21 July 2009, under the good offices of the Chairman of CARICOM, H.E. President Bharat Jagdeo, called for the Mediation Process to ‘be pursued with the utmost expedition…’
On Sunday 9 August, after 25 hours of intense discussion, the Parties concluded the first phase of the process without reaching overall agreement on the issues in dispute between them.
The Honourable E.V.K.S. Elangovan, Minister of State for Commerce, India; Hon. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General, CARCIOM; Fellow CARICOM Trade Ministers; Your Excellency, Virendra Gupta, High Commissioner of India to Trinidad and Tobago; Members of the Indian Delegation; Representatives of the Indian and CARICOM business communities; Members of the Media; Ladies and Gentlemen
I thank you for your invitation to declare open this First India-CARICOM Trade Exposition. I welcome all visitors to our beautiful twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, announced today three recent appointments to the CDF’s senior management team.
Hon Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
Hon Secretary-General of CARICOM
Ministers of Government of Belize
His Excellency Dr. John Ashe, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
Dr. Kenrick Leslie, Executive Director of the Climate Change Centre and his Staff
Distinguished Representative of the Government of Italy
Other Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen:
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The winning design for the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) Logo Competition was unveiled during a presentation ceremony at the CDF’s Barbados Headquarters on Friday 31 July 2009.
The winner, Miguel Hastings, a Jamaican national residing in Miami Florida in the United States, was presented with a cheque for US$3,000.00 by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CDF, Ambassador Lorne McDonnough.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Remarks by His Excellency Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) On the Occasion of the Opening of the High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics Port-of-Spain Trinidad and Tobago 30 July 2009
I join Madame Chair in welcoming you all to this High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I am honoured to address you this morning on behalf of the Minister of PHE who is at Cabinet and unable to attend and the Minister of State who is unwell.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Governments in the Caribbean must strengthen their National Statistical Offices in respect of human, infrastructural and financial resources in order for statistics to make a meaningful contribution to regional development.