(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr the Honourable Kenny D Anthony has wished Venezuelan President His Excellency Hugo Chavez a “speedy recovery”.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite has cited several areas for increased focus in order to enhance the results from the implementation of the Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Strategy for the Region.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Permit me at the outset to thank you, Mr President and the people of Equatorial Guinea for the tremendous African welcome and hospitality extended to us. This 7th Summit of the ACP in your unique country, being the only Spanish-speaking nation in Continental Africa, offers yet another opportunity for our ACP Group to herald the diversity from which we gather our strength.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I must first apologise for the absence of H.E. President Desiré Delano Bouterse, President of the Republic of Suriname. President Bouterse deeply regrets his absence.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) May I take this opportunity, Mr President, to express our deep gratitude to the Government and people of Equatorial Guinea for the gracious hospitality and profound generosity, extended to my delegation since our arrival.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 7th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group of States should send a message to the international community that the Group “is here to stay.”
That was the view of the Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr the Honourable Kenny D Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia as he addressed the opening ceremony of the Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday. The Malabo gathering, he said should be a call to reaffirm ACP unity and solidarity.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) will commence formal operations in January 2013. Dr Carl Hospedales, a Trinidad and Tobago National and highly respected public health professional has been selected as its new Executive Director. This announcement was made by the Chair of CARPHA Executive Board, the Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, Minister of Health, Jamaica.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As rising prices of food continue to impact the Region’s economies, the Caribbean Community‘s (CARICOM’s) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) strongly emphasised the need for increased production of agriculture products. The COTED called for urgent acceleration in the pace of implementation of the measures to alleviate the nine key binding constraints to agriculture production and trade (commonly referred to as the Jagdeo Initiative).
THE Guyana Energy Agency (GEA in the exercise of its mandate continues to promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and the development and utilisation of renewable sources of energy. As an annual feature, the observance of Energy Week serves to fulfill part of the mandate of the GEA by disseminating information essential to improving public awareness on sustainable energy, conservation and overall efficiency. This year, Energy Week will be celebrated from November 11 -17, simultaneously observed across the Caribbean by CARICOM member states.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Ivan Ogando Lora, said an upcoming meeting of the Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM will be “momentous.” He expressed this view en route to the Twentieth Meeting of the Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM which is to be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 29-30 November.