(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which focussed on Youth and Culture, was convened at Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana on 10-12 October 2007 under the theme, Realising the Potential of Youth and Culture in the Development of the Community.

The Hon. Cynthia Forde, Minister of State in the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport, Barbados chaired the Meeting.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) History was created in the Caribbean Community today, when His Excellency Edwin Carrington, CARICOM Secretary-General signed to seal what is deemed to be the first Public/ Private partnership between the CARICOM Secretariat and a commercial entity, Telecommunications Service Provider of Suriname, Telesur.

Chairman
Fellow Ministers
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 adies and Gentlemen

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than fifty delegates will witness a soft launch of the Caribbean Community’s flagship cultural exposition – the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) at the Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) which opened on Wednesday 10 October 2007 at Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel at 9:00am.

We, the Ministers of Agriculture of CARICOM, meeting at the Gran Bahia Principe Hotel, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica on 9 October 2007 on the occasion of a special Symposium on Food and Agriculture Policies and Obesity: Prevention of NCDs in the Caribbean;