Your Excellency Ambassador Elisabeth Harper
Deputy Secretary-General
Assistant Secretaries-General
Distinguished guests
Ladies and gentlemen
Members of the Media
Your Excellency Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Colleague Members of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Chairman;
Right Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados;
Outgoing Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning;
Other Ministers of Finance and Planning;
Mr. Secretary-General Hon. Omar Davies, Minister of Finance and Planning of Jamaica Assistant Secretary-General, CARICOM Hon. Prime Ministers Colleague Ministers of Finance
My presence here today as Prime Minister is the consequence of an electoral choice that is without precedent in the post-independence history of my country.
Mr. Chairman; Right Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados; Outgoing Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning; Other Ministers of Finance and Planning;
His Excellency the Director-General of UNESCO Members of the UNESCO delegation Assistant Secretaries General of CARICOM Ladies and GentlemenMembers of the Media
Members of Parliament
Colleague Foreign Ministers
Secretary General, Mr Edwin Carrington
Members of the Judiciary, and the Clergy
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Chairman and Members of CARICOM,
Host Minister Hon. Clement Rohee,
outgoing Chair Hon Margaret Dyer-Howe,
Colleague Ministers,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
His Excellency the Director-General of UNESCO Members of the UNESCO delegation Assistant Secretaries General of CARICOM Ladies and Gentlemen Members of the Media
His Excellency the Director-General of UNESCO
Members of the UNESCO delegation
Assistant Secretaries General of CARICOM
Ladies and Gentlemen
Members of the Media