​Thank you for that warm welcome. I am truly honoured to be with you today. Let me begin by thanking our host – the Prime Minister and people of St. Maarten – and congratulating you on your new status and constitution. These are exciting times for the entire country. I wish you...

​It was only a few months ago, I sat here as the stand-in-chair of the Council in place of my colleague from Trinidad and Tobago and directed the meeting on a number of critical matters facing the Community. Since then, a number of other developments at the national, regional and international level...

​Thank you for that warm welcome. I am truly honoured to be with you today. Let me begin by thanking our host – the Prime Minister and people of St. Maarten – and congratulating you on your new status and constitution. These are exciting times for the entire country. I wish you all the very best fo...

​ I welcome the opportunity to make a few comments at this consultation to review the Draft Report and proposed strategy prepared by the Consultancy firm, European Profiles and Consortium. I am advised that the work was done through a project implemented by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ...

​ Honourable Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture; Representatives of Member States; Participants; Representatives of the Media; Ladies and Gentlemen On behalf of the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, it is my pleasure to welcome you to this consultation. His Excellenc...

​Service providers may also move to establish businesses under the Companies Act or the Registration of Business Names Act. The procedure in those cases would be the same as those applying to the establishment of business for the provision of goods by a Company. Additionally, however, servic...

The Caribbean Community Secretariat is moving full speed ahead to put in place the necessary procedures to enable additional Member States to issue the Caribbean Vocational Qualifications (CVQ) in 2011. To date, only three Member States of the 15-member grouping can issue the CVQ. The CVQ was la...

​I wish as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as I make these remarks to join the preceding speakers in expressing great pleasure in addressing this formal opening ceremony of the 9th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA).I regret that I was unable to join you for more of the activ...

​     Mrs. Angella Persad, President, Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce; Your Excellency Yolanda de Gavidia, Secretary-General, Economic Integration in Central America (SEICA); Your Excellency Luis Andrade Falla, Secretary-General Association of Caribbean Sta...

​ Honourable Sheik Baksh, Minister of Education of Guyana and Chairman of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD); Ministers of Government of CARICOM Member States; Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies; Professor Lawrence Carrington, Vice Chanc...