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Remarks by The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque At the Opening of the Thirty-Fourth Meeting Of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Port -of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

On this night, July 3 1973, 40 years ago, a feeling of expectation and spirit of hope filled the Caribbean air.

The Commonwealth Caribbean was poised to make the move from the 1965 free trade area of Dickenson Bay, CARIFTA, to the Community and Common Market of Chaguaramas, CARICOM. The 1973 Georgetown Accord had been transformed into the Treaty of Chaguaramas and a new era of deepened integration was hours away.

An Address delivered by the Hon Freundel Stuart,  Prime Minister of Barbados   On the Occasion of the Opening Ceremony Of The Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government Of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Port-of-Spain Trinidad and Tobago

Forty years ago four distinguished Heads of Government of this region, summoned by the logic of history to be bold at that time, met here in Trinidad and Tobago and signed what the then Prime Minister of Guyana, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham said should become known as the Treaty of Chaguaramas.

Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque,  Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM)  At The Launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)

Today’s historic launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) demonstrates clearly to this Region how the co-operative deployment of many skills to achieve one objective can be of collective benefit.

Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At the Opening Ceremony Of the EIGHTH ILO MEETING OF CARIBBEAN LABOUR MINISTERS

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.

This Eighth CARIFESTA has already brought its fair share of excitement and expectations, challenges and creative adaptations, frustrations and a spirit of accommodation and understanding. After all, this festival is taking place in the Southern most Member State of the CARICOM family, whose ancestral heritage adds a distinctive flavour to the cultural variation that makes this region of ours so un

SALUTATIONS!

Lamy: “Aid for Trade to support closer Caribbean integration”

Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the launch of the Caribbean Regional Aid For Trade Strategy in Port au Prince, Haiti on 11 June 2013, said: “Today intra-Caribbean trade stands at just 13% which, as CARICOM itself notes, is on average, at 46 % below its trade potential. There are tremendous opportunities for increasing the role of trade in the region’s growth. The strategy we are launching today, with its focus on maritime transport, ICT and energy will be a central pillar in supporting closer economic integration.” This is what he said:

WELCOME REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE LAUNCH OF THE AID-FOR-TRADE STRATEGY

Your Excellency Michel Martelly, President of the Republic of Haiti and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community,
Honourable Oliver Joseph, Minister of Economic Development, Planning, Trade and Cooperatives of Grenada and Chairman of the CARICOM Council for Trade and Economic Development,
Honourable Wilson Laleau, Minister of Finance and the Economy and Minister of Trade and Industry of Haiti,
Other Honourable Ministers,
Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation,
Our Partner Institutions,

OPENING REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASST. SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), TO THE TENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD) ON HEALTH, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 28 APRIL 2004,  TOBAGO

It is my pleasure to welcome you all on behalf of the Directorate of Human and Social Development and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat. I wish in particular to thank you Minister and your staff at the Ministry of Health for making the arrangements for hosting this meeting. I also wish to express great pleasure that The Hon. Orville London Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly has graced this opening ceremony with his presence.

THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY : PREPARING FOR AND ADJUSTING TO THE NEW RULES OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM : ADDRESS BY DR. CARLA BARNETT, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

It is a pleasure for me to be here at MSU, It is my first visit to Lansing and this University and I want to thank the Caribbean Students Association for the invitation, for working so hard to ensure smooth arrangements for this visit and for making me feel so welcome here. I want to express appreciation as well to the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies – its Director, Assistant Director and other staff for its part in supporting this visit and for hosting this seminar this afternoon.

Remarks by the Hon. Oliver Joseph, Minister of Economic Development, Planning Trade and Cooperatives At the   Opening Ceremony of the 36th Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development

It is a pleasure for Grenada to be Chairing the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).

Colleague Ministers, our Community is at yet another defining epoch in our development. Indeed, there is much skepticism among segments of our stakeholder groups, which has often-times weakened the case for the work of the COTED.

We must do two things through the important work at this 36^th COTED:

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