"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."    George Santayana. With those prophetic words, I wish on behalf of the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community to express our appreciation for your participation in this historic activity. I am certain history is being made wit...

Hon. Indra Chandrapal, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Other Ministers of Government Dr. Bernadette Theodore-Gandhi, PAHO/WHO Representative to Guyana Members of the Diplomatic Corps Delegates Distinguished GuestsLadies and Gentlemen On behalf of the Caribbean Community Secretariat, l...

ADDRESS BY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, EDWIN W. CARRINGTON Mr. Chairman Other Distinguished Ministers Other Distinguished Delegates Secretariat Staff Members of the Media Good Morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat and the Seventh Meeting of the Counc...

Dr. the Honourable Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia will visit Guyana on Friday and Saturday, 22-23 October 1999. Prime Minister Anthony was assigned responsibility by the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community for the implementation of the Herdmanston Accord and th...

Mr Chairman Other Distinguished Ministers Other Distinguished Delegates Secretariat Staff Members of the Media Good Morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat and the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I expect that this will be our last mee...

Outgoing Chairman of the COTED Other distinguished colleagues, Excellencies, Delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, Please permit me to commence my brief remarks by expressing appreciation on behalf of all delegates to the Government of Guyana and the CARICOM Secretariat for the warm and splendid arrangem...

Mr. President, Distinguished delegates, Mr President, we thank you for the opportunity to address this august chamber on a subject which spells life or death to the countries of our Region - the Caribbean. Held as it was in Barbados - a founding Member State of the Caribbean Community - the 1994 SID...

The second session of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP) will convene in Grenada on October 14, 1999. The two day-session will bring together parliamentarians from the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) 15 Member States as well as the three Associate Member States to discuss ma...

His Excellency, the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo was a welcome surprise guest at a ceremony on Wednesday morning at which members of staff of the CARICOM Secretariat remembered their colleague, Ms Silvana Jordan. The President gave his personal reminiscences of his friend Silvana Jordan with ...

Ms Silvana Jordan, Senior Project Officer, Communications Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat died in a vehicular accident on Monday September 20, 1999. Ms Jordan, 36, who joined the Secretariat in June1996, was the first Surinamese national to be employed at the Secretariat follow...