(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) The Caucus of Ministers of Health meets in Washington this week-end (26 -27 September) for its 18th Annual Meeting, with a formidable agenda of critical regional health issues to be addressed. This Forum provides an opportunity for Health Ministers...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community has lost, in one week, three major literary figures: Jamaica’s Trevor Rhone, Suriname’s Henk Tjon and Trinidad and Tobago’s Wayne Brown.  While Rhone and Tjon were both multi-talented, r...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community Secretary-General H.E. Edwin Carrington has extended congratulations to His Excellency Ambassador Davidson L. Hepburn on his election as President for the 35th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Under the theme Towards Universal Access: Enhancing the Multi-sectoral Response to HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, more than 150 representatives of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will meet for the Ninth An...

It is a pleasure for me as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to join the Honourable Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, in welcoming Honourable Ministers and Officials from our Member States to this important meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development of the ...

   (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers of Agriculture from CARICOM Member States meeting in Guyana on Friday were challenged to let Agriculture take the lead in regional development efforts. This the Ministers heard from CARICOM Secretary-General H. E Edwi...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the of the 32nd Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture, the Honourable Ezekiel Joseph, Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries and Forest...

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Guyana on the occasion of the 32nd Special meeting of the Agriculture COTED. I am saddened to learn that this may very well be the final Agricultural COTED for 2009, and indeed for quite some time. I am saddened because there seems to be so much that rema...

I want to warmly welcome you to Guyana and to the 13th PANCAP Meeting. Not long from now, PANCAP will observe its 10th anniversary. As we ensconce ourselves within the cusp of this milestone, we must realize there is merely just one more year to go. The question at this 13th Meeting of the RCM of PA...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General HE Edwin Carrington has commended Dr Ken Leslie, Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), on receiving one of Belize’s Highest National Honours, the Order of Distinction, for his exe...