Chair of COTED Honourable Clifford Marica, Minister of Trade and Industry of Suriname Hon Carolyn Rodrigues-Berkett, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Guyana Other Hon. Ministers of Government Their Excellencies/Ambassadors to the Caribbean Community Other Heads of D...

    Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica and the Chairman of the Conference, Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit His Excellency, Drs. Runaldo Venetiaan, President of Suriname and Lead Head of Government with responsibility for Youth...

    His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of CARICOM, Honourable Ministers of regional governments, CARICOM youth ambassadors, youth reps, members of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD), other officials, my brothers and sisters good d...

Honourable Roosvelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica and Chairman of the Conference; His Excellency Runaldo Venetiaan, President of Suriname His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana His Excellency,...

Salutations I congratulate the Board of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and its General Manager, Mrs. Marlene Street-Forrest for organizing what portends to be a most exciting Conference. The timing is opportune as the Caribbean struggles for survival in a changed and most uncertain global econ...

    Ladies and Gentlemen: We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the future are represented by suffering millions; and the youth of a Nation ar...

    Honourable Patrick Simmons, Minister of Youth Empowerment, Culture and Sport of Grenada and Chairman of the Council for Human and Social Development of the Caribbean Community;  Honourable Ministers;  Honourab...

Acknowledgements • Suriname for hosting • CARICOM Secretariat Staff for preparing • Haiti for attending despite their tragedy • Commissioners for fulfilling their mandate • Colleague Ministers for attending Today we are meeting as a Council at a critical juncture, where both...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the Republic of Suriname at this Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) with special focus on youth and development. Yesterday, young people of CARICOM Member States came together in this very same venue to discuss that dr...

    As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, it gives me very great pleasure to welcome you all, to what can justly be termed, the laying of the foundation stone in the building of the edifice of youth development, by the Community, here in Suriname this week. It is fitting th...