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. O...

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. We had long recognised the desirability of creating such an institution.  The ...

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 meetin...

SALUTATIONS! I am proud today as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to welcome you all to CARIFESTA VIII in Suriname. This pride is heightened by the fact that this is the first time since my assumption of office in 1992 that this major Community event is being held in a non-E...

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 op...

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...

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 expres...

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 appreci...

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 ha...

CARICOM was established in 1973 with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, and is observing its 40th anniversary this year. “The model may be challenged in other regions of the world, but it must be understood that regional integration requires constant tweaking,” he said, while a...