(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) St Vincent and the Grenadines' Pamenos Ballentyne and Guyana's Alika Morgan have again emerged champions of the Annual Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 10K Road Race held on Sunday (29 June 2008) in Antigua and Barbuda.

Ballentyne, who was making his fourth consecutive win, finished the race in a time of 31.41secs beating Trinidad and Tobago's Richard Jones into second place, while Morgan who was wining the Race for the third time finished ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's Christine Regis with a time of 39:07 secs.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty–Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opens in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda on Tuesday 1, July 2008, with an agenda replete with critical issues.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) is to be launched at the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Antigua and Barbuda 1-4 July 2008.

A decision was taken by the Heads of Government to frontload $60M of the US$250M Fund to coincide with the launch next week.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) An outstanding Jamaican woman will be awarded the Caribbean Community’s Triennial Award for Women for her sterling contribution to national and regional development especially in the field of education and research.

The award will be conferred on 1 July 2008 at the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government, in Antigua and Barbuda.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government on Friday concluded a series of meetings with New York City business executives in their thrust to promote the Caribbean Region as an attractive investment destination.