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(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Members of the Mini Grant Programme (MGP) Youth Technical Resource Team from six participating countries will meet at the Heritage Hotel in Antigua and Barbuda on 24-26, February, 2007 to review the draft MGP training/participant modules and handbook for trainers and youth workers in HIV/AIDS.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On February 22-23, 2007, Ministers of Trade of the following Central American countries - Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama - and the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in Belize City to discuss bilateral trade relations among their countries and their experiences in international trade negotiations, including in the multilateral trade forum.
The Caribbean region’s first travelling film showcase will be officially launched on Thursday, 22 February, 2007 at a ceremony to be held at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - the venue for the five-day showcase - in St. Kitts and Nevis. Chairman of the Havana-based International Organising Committee, Senor Rigoberto Lopez, will deliver the keynote address
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Preparations are already underway for the 10th staging of the Region's flagship cultural festival, the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA), to be hosted by The Bahamas in August 2008.
The Eighteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on 12-14 February 2007 under the Chairmanship of Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government.
The Eighteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on 12-14 February 2007 under the Chairmanship of Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government.
On behalf of the Government and People of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and on my own behalf, I welcome the distinguished Heads of State and Government, the esteemed Heads of International and regional organsations, and their respective delegations, and all other invited guests to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a fountain head of regional integration from which the unpolluted streams of Caribbean unity flows.
Dr. The Honourable Ralph Gonsalves – Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines & Chairman of Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Presidents of Guyana and Suriname and Colleague Heads of Government, Ministers of Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and of other CARICOM Countries, Leader of the Opposition of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Parliamentarians of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Visiting Heads of regional and international institutions, members of the Diplomatic Corp, Distinguished Delegates.