(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Remarks by His Excellency Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) On the Occasion of the Opening of the High Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics Port-of-Spain Trinidad and Tobago 30 July 2009 I join Madame Ch...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I am honoured to address you this morning on behalf of the Minister of PHE who is at Cabinet and unable to attend and the Minister of State who is unwell. The present Global economic crisis has been likened to the Great Depression of...

    Distinguished Heads of Regional Institutions and Organisations Other Distinguished Delegates Deputy Secretary-General and other Staff of the Secretariat Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen As always it gives me very great pleasure as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (...

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I thank you all for having accepted my invitation to join in our celebration tonight, of the thirty-sixth anniversary of the Caribbean Community – CARICOM. A CARICOM which, in addition to ...

c Let me say at the outset that if anyone had any doubts about the closeness of the relations between the European Union and CARIFORUM, they just have to be here today. This dialogue simple as it may seem, is taking place between representatives of the twenty-seven Member States of the European Un...

Today is a day of special significance in CARIFORUM/European Union Relations. We will experience the many dimensions of that relationship. We will first witness the signature of a Country Strategy Paper (CSP) between the European Commission and Antigua and Barbuda, a Member State of CARIFORUM. Signa...

  It is a great pleasure to be here today and to have this opportunity to engage with you in this Dialogue on Regional Integration and further integration. I want to extend special thanks to the Prime Minister and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda for their hosting of this meeting and also...

It really is a pleasure to be in Antigua and Barbuda for this, the inaugural Regional Services Symposium and to be asked by the CARICOM Secretariat to say a few words at this opening session. The Services Sector is the most important sector in the Region contributing as much as 90% of GDP in this ...

    I extend a warm Antiguan and Barbudan welcome to all of you. A special word of welcome to representatives of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AEC...

  First let me begin these remarks by thanking Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer who not only leads the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, but also leads the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the area of Services, for agreeing to be the patron of this Symposium. I will also like to thank the Membe...