Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary General, Trade and Economic Integration and other Representatives of the CARICOM Secretariat, Permanent Secretary Ambassador Colin Murdoch, members of the media, Last July, when CARICOM Heads of Government met here in Antigua and Barbuda, they endorsed ...

Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Assistant Secretary General, Trade and Economic Integration and other Representatives of the CARICOM Secretariat, Permanent Secretary Ambassador Colin Murdoch, members of the media, Last July, when CARICOM Heads of Government met here in Antigua and Barbuda, they endorsed ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) After twenty years, the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) has much to be proud of as an advisory body instrumental in shaping cultural policies, infusing the regional culture programme with new ideas, approaches and attitudes and providing ...

Mr. Chairman, De. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, CARICOM The Honourable John Fabien, Minister of Health, Dominica, and Chairman of the COHSOD The Honourable Andrew Holness, Minister of Education, Jamaica Other Distinguished Regional Ministers Mr. Enel Bruds...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is the duty of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) to provide strategic leadership in health and education in the face of the challenges posed by global crises. This was the cha...

I take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to each of you to the 18th meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development, and to Jamaica. The Government of Jamaica is pleased to be hosting this week’s meeting. The provision of quality education and health services is critical to ens...

Threats to Social gains The present global economic recession has been described as the worse since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While it is not the first economic crisis of a global magnitude it is unique in character, as the present situation represents a recession that is linked to a fina...

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has started a series of consultative missions designed to make the organisation responsive to CARICOM Member States who are to be the first beneficiaries of grants, interest subsidies and concession...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Second Meeting of the Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries opened today, Monday 1 June, in Suriname, with the pressing issue of the future of Caribbean Cultural Industries high on the agenda. The meeting observed and noted that ...

  The services sector is the largest and fastest growing sector of the world economy, providing more than 60% of the GDP in many countries and an even larger percentage of employment. For example, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, tourism is the world's...