Caribbean Trade Ministers will meet with the Mexican Foreign Minister and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday 28 November, 2003. H.E Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was the Chairman of the Fifth ...

“Robin Hood used to rob from the rich to give to the poor.     The global market economy is causing the exact reverse”     [Address by The Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica     “CARICOM Beyond Thirty: Connecting with...

The Ninth Special Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held in Castries, Saint Lucia, on 13-14 November 2003. The Most Hon P.J. Patterson, ON, Prime Minister of Jamaica and current Chairman of the Conference presided over the Meeting. Heads of Government i...

SALUTATIONS I bring you greetings on behalf of my Chairman, Dr Yitades Gebre who could not be here today at this important meeting and sends his regrets. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean has had, and will have crippling and devastating effects on us all. It is one of the most formidable an...

The Third Annual General Meeting of the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) was held in Georgetown, Guyana on 12-13 November 2003, under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Health, Republic of Guyana, assisted by Deputy Chairperson, H.E. Ms. Dolores Balderam...

Dear Participants of the Third Annual PANCAP Meeting, First of all, I wish to express my best wishes and solidarity with you in your continuing leadership in the response to AIDS. I am sorry not to be able to be with you in person. The Pan-Caribbean partnership against HIV/AIDS has come a long w...

I send you all very fond greetings and best wishes on the occasion of the 3rd Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS. PANCAP as it is affectionately known, is a very special mechanism endorsed by the Heads of Government of CARICOM as a pillar of the Nassau Declarati...

CARICOM Heads of Government will be meeting in Castries, Saint Lucia, on the 13-14 November 2003, at their Ninth Special Meeting, to deliberate on issues arising from the Twenty-Fourth Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held in Jamaica in July of this year. The Meeting i...

The meeting involving the Government of Montserrat, the Caribbean Community Secretariat and United Kingdom Government representatives ended in Montserrat today reaffirming their commitment to Montserrat's continued participation in CARICOM and its organs. The two-day talks were undertaken in a...

(Presented by Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, CARICOM Secretariat) It is my pleasure to be here at this Ninth Meeting of COHSOD, which focuses on labour issues in the context of human resource development in the Caribbean. However, let me first of all...