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THE CARIBBEAN’S CREATIVE DIVERSITY : THE DEFINING POINT OF THE REGION’S HISTORY LECTURE DELIVERED BY PROF. REX NETTLEFORD, VICE CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, 21 MARCH 2003, UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

An appreciation of the history of this region is critical to a fuller understanding of contemporary realities and future challenges. For the Caribbean shares in the great drama of the Americas of which it is an integral part, whereby new societies are shaped, new and delicately tuned sensibilities are honed, and appropriate designs for social living are crafted through the cross-fertilisation of disparate elements. The process has resulted in a distinguishable and distinctive entity called “Caribbean”. The process is intensely cultural.

CARICOM BUREAU MEETS ON WAR IN IRAQ

The Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meets in Montego Bay, Jamaica on the weekend of 5-6 April 2003 to consider the implications to the Community of the war in Iraq.

Chairman of Conference, the Hon. Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica will preside over the meeting of the Bureau, which at this time also consists of immediate past chairman, His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana, incoming chairman, Most Hon. P.J Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica and the Secretary-General of CARICOM, Mr Edwin Carrington.

WELCOME BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE MRS. HAZEL MANNING, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SIXTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 31 MARCH 2003, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

I am delighted to welcome all of you who have honoured the invitation to this 6th Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development. Your presence here, is fitting testimony to your commitment to the urgent need for us to work harmoniously together in facing the challenges of Human and Social Development, as they relate to education at all levels of the system.

This Meeting provides a forum for dialogue with the objective of evolving enduring solutions to the human development constraints facing the Caribbean Region.

As can be evidenced from Guyana’s foreign policy, the Government has sought to deepen its bilateral relations with the countries of the Caribbean Community, its neighbours and those countries of the wider hemisphere.  As you are aware, we feel that we are strategically placed to play a pivotal role in working with sister Member States to deepen and expand CARICOM’s ties with other regional groupin

Apart from the selection and fortunes of the West Indies Cricket team, there is no other issue that evokes, in this region, a richer, more sustained, more fierce, and more misplaced commentary than the purposes and workings of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy.   In both instances, the debate seems to be inspired by the desire of the people of the Caribbean for the region and its institutions to succeed, and the unwillingness therefore to accept any departure from full effort and best practice.

CARICOM/CARIFORUM, GOVERNMENT OF ITALY AND FAO SIGN FOOD SECURITY PROJECT

The Caribbean Community/CARIFORUM, the Government of Italy and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed a US$5 million Food Security Project in Milan on 21 March 2003.

The Project is Italy's response to a US$26.2 million programme submitted by CARICOM/CARIFORUM to a Meeting on Food Security at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC in November last year.

WELCOME BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE MRS. HAZEL MANNING, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SIXTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD),  31 MARCH 2003,  PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

I am delighted to welcome all of you who have honoured the invitation to this 6th Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development. Your presence here, is fitting testimony to your commitment to the urgent need for us to work harmoniously together in facing the challenges of Human and Social Development, as they relate to education at all levels of the system.

This Meeting provides a forum for dialogue with the objective of evolving enduring solutions to the human development constraints facing the Caribbean Region.

EDUCATION FOCUS AT COHSOD MEETING

The Sixth Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, starting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, 31 March with a focus on Education.

The two-day meeting at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre to be presided over by the Hon. Walter Sandriman, Suriname’s Minister of Education and Community Development, will consider among other issues, the migration of teachers from the Caribbean.

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