(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington will lead a delegation from the Secretariat to participate in landmark meetings with Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Caribbean Ministers of Trade, in Kingston, Jamaica April 12 and 13. The Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will also participate in the discussions on strategies aimed at adding political impetus to re-start suspended global free trade talks.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr the Hon Ralph Gonsalves has called upon the Community to use the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as an opportunity to teach the younger generation of the region, the history, the lessons and the effects of slavery and to ensure that this tragedy “is never again experienced in old or new forms.”

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Under the theme CARICOM Reflects…Never Forget, The Caribbean Community Secretariat (CCS) in the second of a series of activities to mark the beginning of the 200th Anniversary year of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, hosted a distinguished lecture presented by highly acclaimed Surinamese author and historian, Cynthia McLeod on the topic: Elisabeth Samson: The Role and Position of Women in the Caribbean during Slavery, at the CARICOM Secretariat on Tuesday, March 27, 2007.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General H.E Edwin Carrington received today, Italy’s Order of Merit, Commander Class in an impressive ceremony at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana. The bestowal was made by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Honourable Vittorio Craxi.

Thank you Mister President

Madam Deputy Secretary-General, Excellencies, Members of the United Nations Secretariat, International and Regional Organizations, special invited guests, ladies and gentlemen.