Celebrating a triumph of the spirit of regionalism
Bridgetown, Barbados – July 9, 2013 – INTERPOL and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) will be hosting a two-day workshop from Wednesday, July 10 to Thursday, July 11, which will enable the Member States within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to develop capabilities to respond to a national or regional emergency related to the accidental or deliberate use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive (CBRNE) materials.
Mr. Chairman,
Your Excellency, President of Trinidad and Tobago,
Honourable Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago,
Fellow Heads of Government,
Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and gentlemen.
Today is the 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord 2013. Forty years ago at this place, the Treaty of Chaguaramas was signed. Today, we try to re-enact what happened forty years ago.
The Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 4-6 July 2013. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, chaired the proceedings.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat is partnering with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) and the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) for the Caribbean Forum on Population, Migration and Development.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on the final day of their Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting agreed on follow-up action on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery.
HE Donald Ramotar, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,Hon. Ashni Singh-Minister of Finance,Hon Carolyn Rodrigues-Berkett--Minister of Foreign Affairs,Hon. Robeson Benn, Minister of Public Works,Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) on Saturday, 6 July, 2013, signed a country assistance programme agreement that will inject US$7.32M into Guyana’s agriculture sector.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon. Fruendel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados has said that amid the challenges encountered in the journey of integration, an objective evaluation of the last 40 years would reveal a more closely knit Community, today, than at any other time in the region’s history.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), The Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has affirmed the strength of the integration movement, and has urged a demonstration of steadfastness to make CARICOM an “even greater force within the world community.”