(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...

The Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change and Development in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change was convened on Tuesday, 15 September at the Bay Gardens Hotel in Castries, Saint Lucia. Honourable Stephenson King, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia presided for the first part;...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirty-Second Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture opens on Friday 18 September, 2009 at the Le Meridien Pegasus, Georgetown, Guyana. COTED Officials be...

Mr. Master of Ceremonies, The Honourable Mr. Stephenson King, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia and Head of Government with Lead responsibility for Sustainable Development in CARICOM The Honourable Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture, Guyana, Representing H.E. Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana a...

  Hon. Prime Minister Stephenson King, Lead Head for Sustainable Development Mr. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM MinistersNegotiators: Permit me first to convey the regret of President Jagdeo, Chairman of CARICOM, for not being in a position to attend. Colleagues, we are at a cr...

Let me begin by being quite relevant, in extending a pleasant climatic and environmentally peaceful day to all of you. It is a real pleasure, and a genuine honour, to welcome you to this Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change and Development. Indeed, I feel particularly honoured to welcome you today ...

Hon. Prime Minister Stephenson King, Lead Head for Sustainable Development Mr. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM Ministers Negotiators: Permit me first to convey the regret of President Jagdeo, Chairman of CARICOM, for not being in a position to attend. Colleagues, we are at a cr...

 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, His Excellency Edwin Carrington, on Tuesday, told some of the Region’s negotiators and policy makers to be resolute and vigilant in their positions for a New Climate Change Agree...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister, Honourable Stephenson King has asserted that while negotiations of a new Global Climate Change Agreement are about ‘give and take’ there would be no ‘horse-trading’ of the inaliena...

  Chairman of the Caribbean Community H.E. Bharrat Jagdeo sent an urgent call to Ministers at a special meeting on Climate Change and Development in Saint Lucia to remain consistent in the negotiations leading up to the United Nations Climate Change conference set for Copenhagen in December. He...