TWELFTH CARICOM TRIENNIAL AWARD FOR WOMEN
SHIRLEY LEE PRYCE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
OPENING CEREMONY OF THE
THIRTY-EIGHTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF
HEADS OF GOVERNMENT
GRENADA, 4 JULY 2017
Governor General, Her Excellency Cecile La Grenade;
CITATION IN HONOUR OF MS. SHIRLEY LEE PRYCE
ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE TWELFTH
CARICOM TRIENNIAL AWARD FOR WOMEN
AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH MEETING
OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT
OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
Ambassadors to CARICOM, representatives of Member States, representatives of Regional Institutions, experts from Baastel, representatives from Directorates of the Secretariat, ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
Remarks By The Secretary-General Caribbean Community (Caricom) Ambassador Irwin Larocque At The Opening Of The Twenty-eighth Inter-sessional Meeting Of The Conference Of Heads Of Government Of The Caribbean Community Georgetown, Guyana, February 16-17, 2017
His Excellency Brigadier (Retired) David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community;
Address of His Excellency Brigadier David Granger President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the Twenty-eighth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
The four founding fathers – Barbados’s Errol Barrow, Guyana’s Forbes Burnham, Jamaica’s Michael Manley and Trinidad and Tobago’s Eric Williams – who brought forth the Caribbean Community forty-four years ago, were men of discernment and determination. They were the courageous pioneers of the future. They were not craven prisoners of the past.
His Excellency Franz Manderson, Acting Governor of the Cayman Islands
Honourable Alden McLaughlin Premier, Cayman Islands;
Honourable Ministers of the Caribbean Community
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Honourable Matai Seremaiah Nawalu - Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity, Vanuatu;
Mr. Victor Villalobos – Director-General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA);
It is with great pleasure that I deliver this message on the occasion of Caribbean Statistics Day 2016.
Salutations
My fellow citizens and residents, congratulations on our thirty-third Independence Anniversary. This year we celebrate our Independence under the theme “Promoting Prosperity through Sustainability and National Unity.”
This theme was chosen specifically to encapsulate how only a stable nation in unity can thrive and prosper, for the betterment of all of its citizens and residents.
Let me thank my fellow Heads of Government for their warm welcome as the new Prime Minister of Saint Lucia. The numerous congratulatory messages received from the entire region speaks to the profound respect given to this new designation, which the people of my beautiful country have bestowed on me and my Government. I am indeed honoured to stand here to represent my country. As the newest head of state I look forward to meeting with each of you to discuss how we can further strengthen regional integration.
I am honoured to join colleagues here in our beautiful sister state of Guyana, at this, the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government.
I thank you President Granger, Secretary General LaRocque and the Government and people of Guyana for the warm hospitality extended to my delegation since our arrival . I certainly appreciate the efforts made to facilitate this important meeting and look forward to a successful outcome.