Salutations. It is an honour to be here at the opening of the Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (34th SCCS), the Seventeenth Meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (17th RCCC) and the Second Regional Statistical Research Seminar. I brin...

    Mr. Chairman Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Jamaica Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas Director General of IICA, Dr. Chelston Brathwaite Specially Invited GuestsParticipants in this important Private Sector Dialogue I am pleased to ac...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington, has extended congratulations to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on the occasion of the country’s 30th Anniversary of Independence, 27 October 2009. The ...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In spite of the challenges facing the agriculture sector in the Region, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) remained convinced that agriculture was an important contributor to rural development, employment creation and export earnings,...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) extends hearty congratulations to the Trinidad and Tobago cricket team on its excellent performance in the Champions League Twenty/Twenty cricket tournament. The exhilarating performances rekindled hope in ...

    Representatives of the CARICOM Secretariat Association of Caribbean Media Workers Representatives of press and media associations Representatives of the Jamaican mediaLadies and Gentlemen Let me take this opportunity to extend to you, on behalf of the Government of Jamaica, a warm...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are expecting the first shipment of the HINI vaccine to arrive in the region late November, as they prepare for further attacks from the H1N1 Virus otherwise known as, the swine flu. The va...

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newspaper Editors from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be participating in a workshop on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, Ja...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) With eight hundred thousand large and small farmers out of a population of nine million Haiti is said to have a vibrant agriculture sector. However among the longstanding challenges facing the sector is slow pace of information flow between...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Three Ministries of Agriculture in Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are in line to receive assistance to develop information and communication strategies as a first step towards mainstreaming communications in the work of ...