COMMUNITY COUNCIL PLANS FOR CARICOM SUMMIT

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Eighteenth Meeting of the Caribbean Community Council of Ministers will take place on Friday 19 May in Georgetown, Guyana. The Council is expected to consider the agenda and arrangements for the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Conf...
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STATEMENT BY HON. ELVIN NIMROD, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE, GRENADA, AT THE OPENING OF THE NINTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR) OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 24 APRIL 2006, ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA

Excellency, Dr. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM Colleague Ministers of Foreign Affairs of CARICOM Other Heads of Delegation Members of the Diplomatic Corps Specially Invited Guests Distinguished Delegates Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen Let me, on behalf of the Government a...
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STATEMENT BY HON. FREDERICK A. MITCHELL, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE, COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS, AND OUT-GOING CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATION (COFCOR), AT THE NINTH MEETING OF THE COFCOR, 24 APRIL 2006, ST GEORGE’S, GRENADA

Mr. Chairman, the Honourable Elvin Nimrod, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Grenada Colleague Ministers Rev. Osbert James Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Excellencies and other Government representatives Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen I am honoured to addres...
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STATEMENT OF CONDOLENCE BY H.E. MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE DEATH OF THE HON. SATYADEOW SAWH, MINISTER OF FISHERIES, OTHER CROPS AND LIVESTOCK AND MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (ag.), GUYANA

As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, on behalf of the Community, the CARICOM Secretariat and on my own behalf I wish to convey to the wife, children and other members of the family of Mr. Satyadeow Sawh, our deepest sympathy at his death. Words cannot adequately express the shock and dep...
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CARICOM COUNCIL OF FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR) ON THE ASSASSINATION OF THE HON. SATYADEOW SAWH, MINISTER OF FISHERIES, OTHER CROPS AND LIVESTOCK AND ACTING MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE OF GUYANA

The Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community gathered in St. George’s, Grenada, for the Ninth Meeting of the Council of Foreign and Community Relations received with shock and a great sense of sadness the news of the assassination of the Honourable Satyadeow Sawh, Minister of Fisheries, Ot...
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Statement by the Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Honourable Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, on the Planned Shipment of High-Level Radioactive Waste from France through the Panama Canal via the Caribbean Sea

The CARICOM Heads of Government at their 17th Inter-Sessional Meeting held recently in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, expressed strong condemnation of the proposed shipment by France of High-Level Radioactive waste through the Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean Community wishes to reiterate that an...
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STATEMENT BY H.E. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM),  ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS OF H.E. ALEJANDRO MARCHANTE CASTELLANOS, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (DESIGNATE), March 10, 2006.

Your Excellency Señor Alejandro Marchante Castellanos, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba, to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Assistant Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community; Representatives of the Embassy of Cuba; Other Staff of the CARICOM Secret...
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Cuba Accredits New Ambassador to CARICOM

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Long-standing relations between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Republic of Cuba have served to enhance the standard of living of citizens of both CARICOM and Cuba, and represent a celebration of true fraternity. This was th...
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STATEMENT BY MS. MARISELA PADRON QUERO, UNFPA DIRECTOR FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCH OF THE CARICOM-UNFPA SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION AGREEMENT, 28 FEBRUARY 2006, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary General CARICOM Secretariat; Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM; Dr. Dennis Benn, Michael Manley Professor, Public Affairs and Public Policy, UWI, Mona Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, Current economic inte...
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