Press Releases

Creating the Future Today - this is the theme of the first World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2001. Four words that underscore the importance of innovators and artists to the development and growth of societies everywhere. We owe the inventions, designs and works of art that ease our workl...

Mr. Chairman, each of us is here as a representative of people. Some may be called Canadians, others Antiguans, yet others Americans. They are all people with basic aspirations to live a life in freedom, to raise their children, to feed them properly, give them education, good housing and health car...

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of Government, On behalf of the St. Lucia delegation, the delegations of the English-speaking Caribbean, and the delegations of the CARICOM sub-region, I wish to thank you for the warm and friendly welcome, and for the professional and efficient arrangements that th...

I address you today in the name of the people of the Caribbean Community. In that spirit, I am pleased to recognise that the enterprise we are engaged in today in Quebec City began in the Caribbean almost two centuries ago. For it was in Jamaica in 1815 that the great apostle of freedom, Simon Boliv...

The Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community are deeply disturbed by events taking place in the Republic of Guyana, following the March 19, 2001 General Elections. Reports indicate a deteriorating social and political situation characterised by outbreaks of violence, damage to property and los...