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Today’s historic launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) demonstrates clearly to this Region how the co-operative deployment of many skills to achieve one objective can be of collective benefit.
I wish at the very outset to express my sincere appreciation to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for affording me the opportunity to bring these brief remarks to you at the Opening of this 8th Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which opens in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar assumed the six-month rotational Chairmanship on 1 July.
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to inclusiveness, a feeling of belonging and togetherness that may be the lynchpin for further development of the “Community for all’ envisioned by the architects and current torchbearers of CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) United, cohesive, productive, enabling, progressive!
That’s the kind of Community in which youth of the Region wish to live.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) youths took to the twittersphere on Sunday to share their views on the Community and their role in cementing regional integration.
In the first CARICOM Twitter Relay held by the CARICOM Youth Ambassador Programme (CYAP) in observance of the 40th anniversary of CARICOM, the youths began a twitter relay mid-morning and continued until 7 pm.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The effects of the current economic climate on Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major agenda item at the upcoming Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM.
The meeting begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago with an Opening Ceremony on the evening of 3rd July, 2013 with working sessions beginning the next day and ending on the 6th July.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Tonya Nero of Trinidad and Tobago retained her title and the Secretary-General’s Trophy at the CARICOM 10k run in her homeland on Saturday. Ms Nero had captured the title last year in Saint Lucia and repeated with a time of 37minutes 22 seconds watched by a small gathering including CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to inclusiveness, a feeling of belonging and togetherness that may be the lynchpin for further development of the “Community for all’ envisioned by the architects and current torchbearers of CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Athletes from eight Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will compete at the 9th Annual CARICOM 10k Road Race which takes place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday 29 June.
The race has become the precursor to the annual Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM. The 34th Meeting of the Conference begins in Port of Spain on Wednesday 3rd July with an Opening Ceremony at the Diplomatic Centre.