A very warm welcome to you all, to the Twentieth Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee, on behalf of our Secretary General, His Excellency Mr. Edwin Carrington, and also the Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development, Dr. Edward Greene...

  The services sector is the largest and fastest growing sector of the world economy, providing more than 60% of the GDP in many countries and an even larger percentage of employment. For example, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, tourism is the world's...

    Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana Professor E. Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Your Excellency Albert Ramdin, Assistant-Secretary-General of the OAS Mr...

    I want to begin by congratulating the CARICOM Secretariat on the mounting of this Workshop. It is no secret that I place great store by the role of Caribbean diplomacy over nearly fifty years of engagement with the international community. Some of o...

I want to begin by congratulating the CARICOM Secretariat on the mounting of this Workshop. It is no secret that I place great store by the role of Caribbean diplomacy over nearly fifty years of engagement with the international community. Some of our most notable achievements have been in this fiel...

    I am especially pleased at the privilege afforded me as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to participate in this Opening Ceremony of the Eighth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE). Th...

  On behalf of the Caribbean delegations gathered here today in Paramaribo, Suriname, I have the pleasure to extend our sincere greetings and warm words of welcome to the delegation of the United States of America. This technical meeting on Caribbean – US Security Co-operation is of crit...

  On behalf of the Caribbean delegations gathered here today in Paramaribo, Suriname, I have the pleasure to extend our sincere greetings and warm words of welcome to the delegation of the United States of America. This technical meeting on Caribbean – US Security Co-operation is of crit...

    Hon. Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, Leader of the Opposition Hon. Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda, and Outgoing Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations Fellow Me...

It gives me great pleasure to address you on the occasion of the opening of this important Regional Diplomatic Training Course for Mid-Career Diplomats in the Caribbean Community. The phrase a “born diplomat” is of long standing. In the past, this may have led to training being underva...