Your Excellencies the Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke and Lady Cooke President Thabo Mbeki President Ricardo Lagos Colleague Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Specially Invited Dignitaries Heads of International and Regional Organisations Honourable Ministers and Members of Parli...

The Suriname National Organising Committee has announced that the whole month of August will be dedicated to the celebration of Arts and Culture in the Caribbean. The Dutch republic will play host to the eighth CARIFESTA, which will be officially opened on 24th August in the capital, Paramaribo, and...

Mr. Secretary-General; Hon. Omar Davies, Minister of Finance and Planning of Jamaica; Assistant Secretary-General, CARICOM; Hon. Prime Ministers; Colleague Ministers of Finance; Central Bank Governors; Representatives of the Donor Community; Delegates and Officials. Having heard the Secretary-Ge...

Mr. Chairman; Right Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados; Outgoing Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning; Other Ministers of Finance and Planning; Central Bank Governors; Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations; Representatives of the Private ...

Apart from the selection and fortunes of the West Indies Cricket team, there is no other issue that evokes, in this region, a richer, more sustained, more fierce, and more misplaced commentary than the purposes and workings of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy. In both instances, the debate ...

In a year when the Caribbean Community is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Community’s Heads of Government, as well as the Trade and Finance Ministers and senior officials will culminate a series of meetings in Jamaica in June and July with the Twenty Fourth Regular meeting of the Heads o...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) extends its warmest congratulations to Senator the Honourable Julian Hunte, OBE, Minister of External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of Saint Lucia on his recent election as President of the 58th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...

The Caribbean Court of Justice in its continued Public Education Programme, on the 22-23 May, 2003 launched its public education programme in Haiti. Haiti is the newest Member State embraced as a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The launch and first round of the education programme i...

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. It focuses my mind on the fact that we live in unprecedented times – in a world caught up with difficult and dangerous new tensions, an...

Honourable Ministers Other Heads of Delegation Distinguished Delegates Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure this morning, as Secretary-General, to welcome you to the Twelfth Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, the second highest decision-making body in the Car...