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OPENING REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY HUMPHREY HILDENBERG, MINISTER OF FINANCE, SURINAME, AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FINANCE AND PLANNING (COFAP), 29 JANUARY 2009, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS

  Honourable Prime Ministers and Minister of Finance of Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Colleague Ministers of Finance
Secretary General of the Caribbean Community
Ladies and gentlemen
Delegates and guests.

I welcome you to the 13th COFAP meeting and hope that we will have fruitful discussions.

I want to thank my colleague of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the way he chaired the COFAP in the past year.

REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY FRASER WHEELER, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 23 JANUARY 2009, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

 
Your Excellency Fraser William Wheeler and Mrs. Wheeler
Members of Staff of the Secretariat and of the British High Commission
Representatives of the Media

Good day and warm welcome to you all!

STATEMENT DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR BARRY CHEVANNES AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CARICOM COMMISSION ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (CCYD), 8-10 DECEMBER 2008, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Salutations

The Mandate

The CARICOM Commission on Youth Development arose out of a mandate from the 27th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government held in St. Kitts and Nevis in July 2006. The Mandate is to “provide a full scale analysis of the challenges and opportunities for youth in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and to make recommendations on how to improve their well-being and empowerment.”

STATEMENT DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR BARRY CHEVANNES AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CARICOM COMMISSION ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (CCYD), 8-10 DECEMBER 2008, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Salutations

The Mandate

The CARICOM Commission on Youth Development arose out of a mandate from the 27th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government held in St. Kitts and Nevis in July 2006. The Mandate is to “provide a full scale analysis of the challenges and opportunities for youth in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and to make recommendations on how to improve their well-being and empowerment.”

REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 10 DECEMBER 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana
Distinguished Representatives of the United Nations (UN)
Sir George Alleyne
Other Distinguished Participants
Distinguished Guests
Representatives of the MediA
Ladies and Gentlemen

Today, the 10th of December 2008 the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins the international community in marking the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) under the theme “Dignity and Justice for all of us”.

REMARKS DELIVERED BY THE HONOURABLE EVANS LESCOUFLAIR, MINISTER OF YOUTH, SPORT AND CIVIC ACTION, HAITI, ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CARICOM COMMISSION ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, 8 DECEMBER 2008, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Members of the Haitian Government
Master Ambassador, Representative of the Bureau of CARICOM in Haiti
Master Director General of the Ministry, Youth and Sports and Civic Action
Master Co-Chair of the CARICOM Commission for the Development of Youth
Madam the Regional Director of UNICEF
Madam the Executive Director of IDEJEN
Madam, Master Ambassadors of Youth of Haiti to CARICOM
Directors and Upper Management of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Civic Action
Representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations

REMARKS DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR BARRY CHEVANNES, CO-CHAIR OF THE CARICOM COMMISSION ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (CCYD) ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CCYD, 8 DECEMBER 2008, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On behalf of my Co-Chair and all the other members of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development I wish to extend warm greetings to all you who by your presence here at this our third Meeting have signaled your support and friendship to what is one of the most important Commissions established by the Heads of Government of our Caribbean Community.

CARICOM-CUBA LEADERS CALL FOR RESOURCES TO SUPPORT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba called upon developed countries to contribute new and additional financial resources to implement measures aimed at adaptation to climate change and mitigation of greenhouse gases.

This was one of the clauses of the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba which was issued following the Third CARICOM-Cuba Summit which ended in that city on Monday 8 December.

REMARKS DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR BARRY CHEVANNES, CO-CHAIR OF THE CARICOM COMMISSION ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (CCYD) ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CCYD, 8 DECEMBER 2008, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On behalf of my Co-Chair and all the other members of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development I wish to extend warm greetings to all you who by your presence here at this our third Meeting have signaled your support and friendship to what is one of the most important Commissions established by the Heads of Government of our Caribbean Community.

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