I wish at the very outset to express my sincere appreciation to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for affording me the opportunity to bring these brief remarks to you at the Opening of this 8th Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which opens in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar assumed the six-month rotational Chairmanship on 1 July.
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to inclusiveness, a feeling of belonging and togetherness that may be the lynchpin for further development of the “Community for all’ envisioned by the architects and current torchbearers of CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to inclusiveness, a feeling of belonging and togetherness that may be the lynchpin for further development of the “Community for all’ envisioned by the architects and current torchbearers of CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) We have come out of a very frank but cordial session with the Vice President and we believe that today’s discussion further strengthens the relationship between the Caribbean and the United States. It would no doubt help the United States to articulate clearly its policy toward the Caribbean which would provide an overarching framework for the relationship and cooperation.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Honourable Minister, I take this opportunity to welcome you - certainly not to your first COTED, but in your capacity as Minister for Trade of Grenada. And, of course, you have arrived in style – to take up your place as Chairman of this Council.
I also want to especially welcome the Hon. Erwin Contreras, Minister of Trade of Belize who is attending his first COTED Meeting.
On behalf of the Secretary-General of Caribbean Community, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development on Energy being held here in Trinidad and Tobago. The Secretary General sincerely regrets that he could not be here at this so important COTED Energy Meeting.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On behalf of the Secretary-General of Caribbean Community, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development on Energy being held here in Trinidad and Tobago. The Secretary General sincerely regrets that he could not be here at this so important COTED Energy Meeting.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has joined other Caricom leaders at the 24th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 18-19.
During the deliberations, Prime Minister Spencer will take the opportunity to brief his colleagues over the recent authorisation from the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my privilege and honour to address you this morning at the Opening of this historic Twenty-Fourth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).