ews release 144/2006 (05 July 2006) Your Excellency the Governor-General of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Sir Cuthbert Sebastien Honourable Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis and new Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbe...

Mr. Chairman, permit me first to thank the out-going Chairman of CARICOM, the Honourable Patrick Manning, for his excellent leadership of our regional integration movement during his tenure. In his second (or is it his third?) coming, Prime Minister Manning has emerged as a titan of regional integra...

    Salutations I was deeply honoured to receive the invitation extended by President James to be the guest speaker at this important event in the Rotary calendar. I was especially pleased to learn that the theme was: “Lead the Way”, sin...

I have been requested to address you today on the role of small entrepreneurs in strengthening the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). I take this as a signal of your recognition that governments can only provide the enabling environment but that the private sector has to be the engine for gro...

We, the peoples of the Caribbean, both in the Homeland and in the Diaspora, will without doubt always remember the sixth month of the sixth year of the 21st century. It is both an historic and a momentous occasion, as on 5 June 2006 the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, offi...

Excellency, it is certainly a pleasure to welcome you warmly as the Plenipotentiary representative of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). I have perused your CV and I must say that your many years of service and the dedication to your duties make you eminently qua...

Honourable Knowlson Gift, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Chairman of the Council Other Honourable Ministers Distinguished Delegates Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Eighteenth Meeting of the Comm...

Madam Deputy Secretary-General, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with honour that I present to you Letters accrediting me as Ambassador of Barbados to the Caribbean Community. Allow me to begin by thanking you for the warm welcome which you are extending to me today in these excellent new facilities that...

  It is my pleasure to welcome Ambassador John Williams to the Caribbean Community Secretariat and to receive him as the Plenipotentiary Representative of Barbados to the Caribbean Community. Ambassador Williams, a former Senator and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, brin...

  Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of Government, Members of the Board of Governors, Members of the Board of Directors, Mr. President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Directors and Officers of the Bank, Observers, Ladies and Gentlemen: It has always been for me, as Secretary-General o...