When my colleague, Patsy Wyllie, Chief Health Educator, at the Ministry of Health asked if I would do the feature address this morning, I did not immediately agree. I thought to myself: What could I say to an audience such as this, comprising persons whom I am sure could teach me a thing or ...

  It is with a sense of progress and pride that as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, I address you at this Inauguration Ceremony of the Headquarters of the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA). Let me at the outset thank the President of Suriname, His Excel...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)   The agency upon which the Region will depend to strengthen agricultural health and food safety and ensure the highest standards for trade in agricultural products, was launched Thursday afternoon in Paramaribo, Suriname. The Ca...

    Good afternoon and welcome to the grounds of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries. In 2005, my Ministry started to design a more comprehensive National Agricultural Health and Food Safety System. Many parts of the system were already available and in operati...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Special Representative of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) the Most Honourable Percival Patterson singled out the area of Governance when he addressed the two-day Technical Preparatory Meeting on the Reconstr...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government Special Representative on Haiti, the Most Honourable Percival Patterson and CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin Granderson are in Santo ...

Subsequent to earlier information, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has learnt that four delegates who were attending the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System (CASSOS), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have not been accounted for. ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Twenty-First Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Roseau, Dominica, on 11-12 March 2010. The Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwe...

The earthquake of January 12 ranks as being among the worst catastrophes to befall a single nation. The loss of life, the toll of severe injuries, the destruction of the physical infrastructure, the demolition of public buildings and its consequent damage to the apparatus of governance combined to m...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to provide direct financial support to Haiti in recognition of the importance of channelling resources through the government of Haiti and as a demonstration of the Community’s confidence in the Hai...