Your Excellency Ambassador Koichiro SEKI, Plenipotentiary Representative of Japan to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Deputy Secretary General Assistant Secretar(ies)-General and other Members of Staff of the Secretariat Representatives of the Embassy of Japan; Mr. Tadaomi Nakai Members of the M...

Your Excellency Ambassador Koichiro SEKI, Plenipotentiary Representative of Japan to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Deputy Secretary General Assistant Secretar(ies)-General and other Members of Staff of the Secretariat Representatives of the Embassy of Japan; Mr. Tadaomi NakaiMembers of the Me...

As we welcome the New Year, 2007, as Secretary-General, I am confident that the Caribbean Community has erected a solid foundation towards achieving its goals. 2006 was a year of undoubted progress with far-reaching implications for Caribbean integration. It began on an historic note with the co...

Madame Chair I would like first of all to thank the Government of Spain for hosting this International Conference on what is in reality the future of Haiti - its social and economic development. In providing this particular venue, La Casa de America, which is laden with symbolism, Spain has selected...

THEME:  KEEP THE PROMISE : STOP AIDS WITH A FOCUS ON 'ACCOUNTABILITY' (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Last year, the global community was confronted with a poignant call from the organizers of the World AIDS Day commemoration to “Keep the Promise: Stop AIDS&rdq...

I am deeply honoured to address the people of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of Cuba, on this the 34th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Members of the Caribbean Community. On that historic day in 1972, four independent CARICOM countries - Barbados, Guy...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In order to complete the stabilisation of Haiti and set it on the path to social and economic development, there was need for efficiency, Deputy Secretary General, Her Excellency, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite said. The Deputy Secretary Gen...

Over the years I have learnt to take up any offer to hold hands with the media with a hint of trepidation. But this time around I feel safer as the chaperone is the United Nations. And even though not the blue helmets of the peacekeeping force, the United Nations Population Fund grants me enough cov...

Today, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the members of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) join our brothers and sisters throughout the world symbolizing our deepest commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. This disease, which is the highest cause of death among our you...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary General, His Excellency, Edwin Carrington, leaves Guyana on December 1 for a series of speaking engagements in Jamaica, Miami and Guadeloupe. The Secretary-General will be in Jamaica on Saturday December 2 to deliver the f...