Information and Communication Technology (ICT) must be at the heart of the goals of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) instead of being viewed as peripheral or simply a subject to be added to the education curriculum.
This is according to Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell, Lead Head of Government on Science and Technology in the CARICOM Quasi Cabinet.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the CARICOM Single Market and Economy returns to Jamaica, its place of induction, for a review, the CARICOM Secretary-General said while much has been accomplished under its regimes, the Region has not achieved as much as it should have by now.
The humbugs, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque posited ,were that “major policy decisions and adoption of legal instruments take much too long to be negotiated.”
Crafting a strategy to reposition itself to respond to the “new normal” was one of the key tasks of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Hon Keith Mitchell said Wednesday.
Placing the Community at the “centre of global changes”, the Prime Minister pointed to economic, social and political inequality, climate change and vulnerability that were having deleterious impacts on Member States.
Today, fourth of July, is CARICOM day. Forty-five years ago on this date, four countries signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas.
Happy CARICOM Day
• Your Excellencies the Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen, Governor General and the Most Honourable Lady Allen;
• Your Excellencies Colleague Heads of State and Government;
• Dr. Peter Phillips, Leader of the Opposition and Mrs. Phillips
• Chief Ministers and Ministers of Government
• Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General
• Newly installed President of the CCJ Justice Saunders
• Members of the Jamaican Judiciary
Your Excellency the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, Outgoing Chairman of CARICOM
The Most Honourable Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, Incumbent Chairman of CARICOM;
Other distinguished Heads of State and Government;
The Secretary-General of CARICOM, His Excellency Irwin LaRocque;
Honourable Ministers of Government of member countries of CARICOM;
Your Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps;
Esteemed invited guests; Ladies, gentlemen and the people of our Caribbean Community.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Heads of State and of Government,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Heads of Delegation,
Mr. Secretary General,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am pleased to address this august assembly, as outgoing President of the Conference of Heads of State and of Government of our organization. I am particularly pleased to visit, for the first time as Head of State, the land of Norman Manley, the person whose efforts have led to the creation of a new society that guarantees universal suffrage.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has resolved to present to the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) by year’s end, a CARICOM Biodiversity Strategy (CBS) that will guide the protection and sustainable use the Community’s natural resources.
