(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives of the Region’s media industry will meet on December 7-9, 2006 in Barbados, at the third Champions for Change Conference aimed at accelerating the process to reduce HIV and AIDS stigma and discrimination. Convened by t...

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...

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...

Chairman Mr. Kyle Jackman, Ambassador Lolita Applewaite, Ambassador Irwin La Rocque, Senator Sandra Husbands, Patrick Zephyr, President of Guyana Small Business Association, Delegates from the respective CCARICOM countries, Invited guests and Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat, Members of the media, L...

Your Excellency Mr. Charles Court Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Assistant Secretaries-General Other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen Today I am deeply honoured to welcome His Excellency Charles Court and to receive the Credentials ac...

  Mr. Chairman Honourable Ministers Distinguished Delegates Representatives of the University of the West Indies and Students of the Institute of International Relations Staff of the Secretariat Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen It is once again my privilege an...

Theme: 30 years of Progress: The COMPETITIVENESS CHALLENGE TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY Salutations In an age of instant gratification and built-in redundancy, the celebration of a thirty-year anniversary, even in a marriage, is becoming very rare. So it is with great pleasure that I extend hearty ...

I would normally start by saying that it is a pleasure for me to be here today; however, there is nothing pleasurable about the topic that brings us here today. For it must concern us that the number of HIV infected persons in the Caribbean is larger than the entire population of Barbados; we cannot...

Your Excellency, Mr. David Robinson, Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community,  Assistant Secretary-General, Other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat, Members of the Media, Ladies and Gentlemen It is with distinct pleasure that I welcome you most warmly, Ambassador, to the Headquarters...

Prime Minister of St Lucia Dr The Hon Kenny Anthony Hon Rafael Dezcallar, Under-Secretary for Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain The Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica H.E. Jesus Silva and other members of the Diplomatic corps The Honourab...